Does anyone have access to today's Wall Street Journal? There's a funny headline about astrologers and Scorpios having issues with the whole Pluto thing.
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Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 11:09:18 am PDT #4581 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2006 11:11:04 am PDT #4582 of 10001
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sarameg - Aug 25, 2006 11:11:24 am PDT #4583 of 10001
NPR has, at least once a day, did some part on astrologers wrt Pluto. Makes me SCREAM SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP.
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tommyrot - Aug 25, 2006 11:13:34 am PDT #4584 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.
WTF did astrologers do before Pluto was discovered?
Also, will the decision affect the availability of Plutonium?
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2006 11:14:21 am PDT #4585 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
will the decision affect the availability of Plutonium?
It's going to be demoted from an element to a compound.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 11:17:49 am PDT #4586 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks, Tom! wsj.com told me I needed to be a subscriber to access the article, so it didn't even occur to me to look elsewhere.
Pluto's demotion divides astrologers, troubles Scorpios
The minor-planet faction takes the news in stride; astrolabe adjusts charts.
That is funny, right?
Connie Neil - Aug 25, 2006 11:19:38 am PDT #4587 of 10001
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Astrologers won't mind that Plutos been downgraded. I know of some who work with the larger asteroids. I like astrology, it gives me a chance to be horrible to someone and say, "Sorry, that's my Aries ascending coming out."
brenda m - Aug 25, 2006 11:20:19 am PDT #4588 of 10001
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There's a funny headline about astrologers and Scorpios having issues with the whole Pluto thing.
I heard two cops talking about that in the convenience store this morning. Funny.
tommyrot - Aug 25, 2006 11:23:31 am PDT #4589 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.
History of plutonium: [link]
Plutonium was first produced and isolated on February 23, 1941 by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin M. McMillan, J. W. Kennedy, and A. C. Wahl by deuteron bombardment of uranium in the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley. The discovery was kept secret due to the war. It was named after the then planet Pluto (now dwarf planet), having been discovered directly after neptunium (which itself was one higher on the periodic table than uranium), by analogy with the ordering of the planets in the solar system (though technically it should have been "plutium", Seaborg said that he didn't think it sounded as good as "plutonium"). Seaborg chose the letters "Pu" as a joke, which passed without notice into the periodic table.
Heh.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 11:32:04 am PDT #4590 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
PS: Tom Scola, I heart your tagline.