"Pluto is dead" - Mike Brown, It's official |
"Pluto is dead" - Mike Brown, It's official |
Aug 24 2006, 01:58 PM
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Aug 25 2006, 11:19 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: 8-November 05 From: Australia Member No.: 547 |
Yeesh! Too much concern over a non-issue. Anyone would think that the government has re-introduced prohibition from all the doom and gloom.
Folks, lets get it into perspective. The world hasn't changed. Tomorrow the price of petrol will be the same, the taxman will be just as greedy, the government will just as incompetant, and women will still defy understanding Pluto is where it belongs. The flag bearer for the little guys. The icy rocks that never amounted to much. Its not a real planet, but it took us 7 decades to realise that. Consider the alternative. The year is 2360, and little Johhny is having trouble remembering the names of the planets. He is OK until he gets to the double planet of Brangelina & Tomkat at 57 AU (number 31 in the list) but it gets hazy after that. He gets frustrated, gives up on school, and drifts into an aimless life of vice, crime and illegal drug use, forever haunted by the infamous decision by the IAU in 2006 where sanity just did not prevail. |
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