Diary of a Fat Man

Talking about Scientists: Pluto not a planet - Space.com - MSNBC.com

8/24/2006 9:00:01 PM

 "The vote involved just 424 astronomers who remained for the last day of a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Prague."

So 424 people can decide something for the entire solar system?  Fuck you IAU.  Pluto is TOO a planet.

I'm also intrigued by the notion of "dwarf planet"...hmmm, it's not a planet?  You have PLANET in the fucking name.

No wonder astronomers never get laid.

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Scientists: Pluto not a planet - Space.com - MSNBC.com

 

Comments

the sleep deprived momma - 8/24/2006 11:25:09 PM
I miss Pluto already!
Meemes M - 8/25/2006 12:16:19 AM
WHAT?!?!  Now who was going to let us teachers know this.  All the shit I have on planets is no good anymore?!  Do these stupid people want to replenish and buy all my materials in science!  This is no good I tell ya!
mao inhibitors - 8/25/2006 3:44:49 AM
men are so territorial about space: its nomenclature, its presumed composition....
 
i remember back before the turn of the century (wow, that expunges me of a timeline) when arguments about what should be done with spare nukes and the detritus from reactors were rampant. "And then there are those who want to send them into space..!" was an observation typically followed by communal gasp of incredulity.
 
....as opposed to burying them beneath the desert, poisoning the water supply, the soil and everything else for indigenous, poor locals (otherwise known as people and/or inhabitants of this planet for generations of gene-producing progeny to come)...
 
let's see: space: a sub-freezing vacuum consisting largely of gaseous hydrogen that could eviscerate anything without an atmosphere or a really cool suit. and we don't want to deposit our nukes into this desolate infinity or re-name a 'planet' based on its physical composition because.........
 
....we think of space is a cartographically mapped-out, sublime entity whose exploration we can vicariously experience while dreaming of its ultimate conquest, its eventual colonization.........
 
~ever your irreverence
DeWitte Wilson - 8/25/2006 10:17:39 AM
I'll have what she's having...
Wendy McKim - 8/25/2006 11:45:01 AM
www.workathomeagents.com.  You can do it full time, or part time, depending on what you want.  It's so easy, any -- most morons could do it.  LOL
 
And yes, Pluto is a planet.  Only 5% of those astronomy morons voted!  Fucking losers!  They can't take away our Pluto!
mao inhibitors - 8/26/2006 3:40:23 AM
i'm just a piece of meat to you.
 
which is just as well, since after clearly neglecting to drive any sort of point home in my last comment, dewitte's allusion to my crack-headery is well founded.
 
*whiney voice* "... i can't find the cooord -- it's in stoorage!" added to which i seriously have to rent a tripod and a shutter-timer since my porn photographer stormed off the set and to spain last month. these tempermental artsy types -- so many setbacks!!
 
it's funny: i was thinking that the vengeful, therapeutic nature of said pix would be a nice birthday treat for me. since i'll be turning ppssshhhaaaowwwwtthhhhhhkksshhhtttt next month and i'm sick of being alone and undesirable, the disclaimer 'you are viewing items over a secure connection' quickens my pulse.
 
i just have to get the mechanics in order. and the bustier. the naughty one.
- 8/27/2006 3:53:38 PM
So if Pluto is not a planet that what did my very educated mother just serve us?  Some sort of planet supplement?
Klementine/Mandolyn - 8/28/2006 4:03:46 PM
Nectarines?  Nuts?  Nothing?
RIP Pluto's planet status.
 
-m
Katrina - 8/29/2006 8:43:04 PM
I totally agree. My 8-year-old cousin was telling me about this the other day and all I could think was, "I have a freakin' master's degree and I hear about this kind of stuff from an 8-year-old?"