HateEvent Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 PlutownedI'd never heard of UB313/Xena or Charon before either o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Devastating news. Everything we've ever believed in has changed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvin Starclusk Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Is it still a dog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 YES! I have been arguing this case for the past 14 years. Escellent news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 YES! I have been arguing this case for the past 14 years. Escellent news.You must have had so much fun the last 14 years. You Planet traitor! Do you realise how many books will have to be rewritten? And facts unlearned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeinzHines Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Its still a planet in my eyes.FUCK YOUR RULES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Mulhern Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Its not a "planet" but its a "dwarf planet" !?! - thats a linguistic fuck up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Oh man, Pluto rocked my World. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 YOU'RE not a planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Its still a planet in my eyes.FUCK YOUR RULES.Yeah..let's start a campaign..organise a conference or something...I think that's all it takes. I wonder what else we could change by these means? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 This will make a great pub quiz question in 50 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 In 50 years time I'll probably be a planet myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeromiserY Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 "it doesn't matter, in fact in about 5 minutes we're not even gonna be matter".... whats a planet? whats the difference between a planet, and a planetoid?tomayto tomato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam 45 Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 It was a pretty shit planet anyway, who cares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 How do you know? You've never been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 How do you know? You've never been.How do you know? I say he has. Anybody with me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 a question in the pub quiz the other night was about how they are about to be 12 planets but how many are there now. and i asked if pluto was still there and no one knew what i was talking aboutmy verse wont work anymore for remembering the names "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming...." no more planets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5283956.stmI don't want anyone to panic, but it seems there has been a 'fierce backlash' to the decision.I know we're all praying there won't be an Astronomers strike, but rest assured if there is, the Government have emergency measures ready to be put in place. The Army have got their fleet of 'green telescopes' on standby as we speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rass Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Its fair enough i think that they finally came up with a definition for a planet and tried to re-arrange thinga a little bit. I always got the impression that they were finding new largeish objects in the solar system all the time and just not classifying them as they didnt want to shake up what we've known about the solar system for the last few hundred years. Like with Xena, which is bigger than pluto and seemingly more deserving of planet status, they can't just not classify it because it would ruin some books and spoil what we already knew about the galaxy.Tho i liked what they had proposed last week which was upgrading xena and charon to 'plutons' along with pluto as a kind of outer belt of planets. That also left them some scope to add more as theres talk of there being a host of other celestial bodies beyond pluto we havent discovered yet.Either way they had to fuck with history, with technology advancing and new things being discovered all the time, be it adding more planets or re-classifying them to loose some, i just find it weird that until now there had never been a proper definition of a planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Mel Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 Quote of the year, I feel :But other astronomers were happy to see Pluto cast from the official roster of planets. Professor Iwan Williams, the IAU's president of planetary systems science, commented: "Pluto has lots and lots of friends; we're not so keen to have Pluto and all his friends in the club because it gets crowded. "By the end of the decade, we would have had 100 planets, and I think people would have said 'my goodness, what a mess they made back in 2006'." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5283956.stmI don't want anyone to panic' date=' but it seems there has been a 'fierce backlash' to the decision.I know we're all praying there won't be an Astronomers strike, but rest assured if there is, the Government have emergency measures ready to be put in place. The Army have got their fleet of 'green telescopes' on standby as we speak.[/quote']I've not had a good night sleep since I found out about all of this, and I doubt I will until it's all sorted out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam 45 Posted August 28, 2006 Report Share Posted August 28, 2006 How do you know? You've never been.You'd be surprised... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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