I don't think Pluto can really be saved unless there is a definition that includes a special exemption for Pluto. If you have a definition where Pluto is a planet then there will probably be dozens of planets before long and there will be 8 major planets and all the minor planets.
Let me guess. We're in a hurry.
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Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 11:46:10 am PDT #3755 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2006 11:47:09 am PDT #3756 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't think Pluto can really be saved unless there is a definition that includes a special exemption for Pluto. If you have a definition where Pluto is a planet then there will probably be dozens of planets before long and there will be 8 major planets and all the minor planets.
If enough pesto was sent to Pluto, it could become big enough to be a regular planet.
sarameg - Aug 21, 2006 11:47:10 am PDT #3757 of 10001
They totally should have left the planet defining alone. Everybody was doing just fine ignoring the elephant in the room and then some brilliant troublemaker decided to ask a bunch of astronomers for their opinions. And believe me, that rarely ends well.
Allyson - Aug 21, 2006 11:47:24 am PDT #3758 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't get why they're suddenly defining them.
§ ita § - Aug 21, 2006 11:48:01 am PDT #3759 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh. I've worked out the daze. Upped Neurontin dosage. I've only been mildly pre-migraine so far today, but if I don't acclimate quickly krav is in jeopardy.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2006 11:48:08 am PDT #3760 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't get why they're suddenly defining them.
We keep on discovering stuff beyond Pluto?
Kathy A - Aug 21, 2006 11:48:46 am PDT #3761 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Well, a celestial object needs sufficient mass to pull itself into a round object, so only those rocks of big enough size end up being round. It's also thought that many of the objects beyond Neptune are mostly ice, and that if you melted them down, they'd be about the same size as many asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. (Stuff I learn on the Science Channel!)
Allyson - Aug 21, 2006 11:49:29 am PDT #3762 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yes, tommyrot, that's EXACTLY what i mean.
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 11:50:11 am PDT #3763 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
We keep on discovering stuff beyond Pluto?
Basically. There are kuiper belt objects being found that are larger than Pluto. So if Pluto (also a kuiper belt object) is a planet, these objects pretty much have to be planets too. The problem is there there are likely a whole bunch of these things.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 21, 2006 11:51:23 am PDT #3764 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
If you have a definition where Pluto is a planet then there will probably be dozens of planets before long and there will be 8 major planets and all the minor planets.
If I listened to the man on PBS correctly, this is pretty much what has happened. There are now 12 planets.