Plus we're sending a probe to Pluto. It's on its way right now... somewhere not quite to Jupiter's orbit. Not many not!planets get probes sent to them. Plus it's nuclear powered. Pluto should be happy.
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Aug 22, 2006 8:15:34 am PDT #3923 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.
Gudanov - Aug 22, 2006 8:18:21 am PDT #3924 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Nobody thinks about how 2003 UB313 feels. Even though it's bigger than Pluto it can't get into the club just because it got seen later. This on top of already being saddled with a crappy name.
Jesse - Aug 22, 2006 8:18:43 am PDT #3925 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.
How do you know that??
Right! I was surprised to find out it had the reputation it does given the fame of the chef (Bobby Flay, ahem) but some people think it has the best food in town. Yay food!
Yay food is right! But I've had great meals at Mesa and the other one whose name I can't remember now. It's been years, but still.
bon bon - Aug 22, 2006 8:19:56 am PDT #3926 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Pluto just wants to be famous.
Calli - Aug 22, 2006 8:20:15 am PDT #3927 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy Birthday, bon bon!
If Pluto leaves, we'll just rename 2003UB...uh...whatver Pluto and nobody has to know about it. Sort of like secretly replacing a dead goldfish and hoping nobody notices that the new one is bigger than goldie.
Moooooom, Pluto's orbit's not eccentric anymore! Did something happen when I was at summer camp?
Aims - Aug 22, 2006 8:20:28 am PDT #3928 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.
How do you know that??
(No kidding. How do you think she'd feel if all of a sudden they reclassified the belt color in Krav and she back to being orange or whatever. She'd have a fit. I'm telling you, Pluto's gonna take off and fuck up our orbit.)
lisah - Aug 22, 2006 8:20:49 am PDT #3929 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Happy Birthday bon bon! Yay celebrating birthdays with great food!!
Nilly - Aug 22, 2006 8:22:21 am PDT #3930 of 10001
Swouncing
Jessica!
Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.
I think the whole thing is so cool (not only because I got to TA about Newton's universal gravitation law on the very day the whole thing was published. Not even because I got to explain gravitation as HoYay, though I didn't use the exact expression, of course).
How the way we describe the universe is something that we make up. The universe, just like ita said, doesn't care. It would spin and roll and do whatever it does regardless of how we list it, try to interpret it, get used to calling it names or change those names. And yet, it is important, to us, at least. It doesn't only shape our understanding of the world around us, but also helps us learn how to master it, to use those facts adn rules we learn in order to play with them, to build things based on them, to study even further.
Oh, my, I'm such a geek.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2006 8:24:14 am PDT #3931 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do you know that??
Pluto lurks and told me in email.
lisah - Aug 22, 2006 8:24:20 am PDT #3932 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
How the way we describe the universe is something that we make up. The universe, just like ita said, doesn't care.
so true. I have a quote from EM Forster above my desk:
As soon as one realizes that the universe is neither for us nor against us one feels steadier."