What the hell are you babbling on about.
Ziggy, nobody mentioned the capacity to sustain life as a prequisite to being a planet. 984 has already repeated this several times, they just twinked the definition of planet to something that Pluto does not comply with.
Fuck you guys, Pluto is most obviously a dog.
The 984: With slightly amended punctuation, that would be a damned good question. As it stands, it is a damned good statement.
Honestly, the renaming is failed semantics. I say semantics because, i nthe scheme of things, Pluto is no different whether or not you call it a rock or a planet. I say failed because it is still a planet to most people, whatever some scientist decides to call it from his ivory tower where he is, sadly, mosty likely paid to debate this.
I’m still going to call it a planet, because that makes a damned lot more sense than any of the other names, looking at the definitions of the words. Scientific terms can kiss my ass; words are not made by scientists. They aren’t allowed to decide something just has a fucking different meaning as a word. That would be like a group of Lawyers deciding “guilty” now meant “innocent” and because they had a conference upon it, it being fully accepted because, shit, they’re lawyers, and they had a conference in which they spoke. There is obviously no flaw in this decision.
I’m serious. What the fuck? People shouldn’t just be allowed to have a god-damned meeting and decide “Sorry, guys, but we’re going to have to say that there isn’t a ‘mantle’ to the earth anymore, because mantles are evidently a garment, and modern science tells us the Earth is not wearing a cloak of any sort.” This is nearly that fucking ridiculous. It is a whole bunch of scientists having a dickwar in a room over fucking semantics, and one side wins because their view is more modern, or more likely because none of them were culturally literate enough to name 6 more deities to name the new planets for, therefore they were forced to submit to removing Pluto.
They should’ve dropped it long ago. It has about as much in common with a planet as a tiny pebble has to the earth. It’s really no more than a bleeding large comet, and in any case, if they hadn’t dropped it, they would’ve had to a) arbitrarily decide that Pluto is a planet, b) add some twenty more planets. Pluto isn’t a planet, it’s one of many small and icy objects at the fringes of our solar system. It’s as simple as that.
Exactly that. It is unimportant and inconsequential, and then it all boils down to feelings, and that makes any debate catch fire and rage.
So the scientists say, but just as people do not put much hope in everything the Church says without reasonable research the same holds true for scientists. I’ll still call it a planet.
What I was babbling on eariler was that a group of scientists tried to classify planets as only spheres that can be inhabited by life.
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Does none of you sympathize with poor pluto! Another victim of te system! I appeal to your solidarity here!
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/pluto I particularly like the ones about planetary discrimination.
Periodontology, chiropractor and all those Greek terms were obviously proposed by the wide public 
News-flash. We are all out of Greek/Roman deities. We’ve used them all and we now name new celestial objects based on SF characters. Try googling it.
DT, does the money gathered get sent to Pluto or something? Or is it a rip off? (The Bush Out Pluto In sticker must be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen).
We still have Janus. We need a planet named Janus. >:(
I suspect they just make ye goode olde profit off it.
DT: I shall join your courageous endeavour to save this misnomer’d world.
Rigamarole:
- No, they were not. They were made by linguists.
- The comment on cultural literacy still stands, just with ‘literary figures’ replacing ‘deities’.
I think the important thing for us to remember here is that Sephiroth’s Supernova Limit Break is now out of date.
Yeah, he’d just smash your party WITH Pluto now. >.>
This is obviously the work of Hojo. DAMN YOU, HOJO! >:E
First off, with no Planet Pluto, poor Mickey Mouse would have had to name his dog Neptune or Uranus.
Second, I agree wtih DT we need to proclaim our loyalty and trust in this little planet.
Third, Sephiroth’s attack would really get weak without Pluto, hence we need it
Fourth if we can keep a moon or a (planet) named Xena, we most definate can keep an ice ball named after one of the cooler gods of old lore.
Fifth, if we’re all out of god names, why not name a planet after yourself before the scientists get to it, and spread the world around! Hence the last planet, moon, whatever that they found in May or June of this year I hearby declare to be the Planet Shaun. Have a nice day!
“Xena” and its <strike>hot, young lesbian</strike> partner “Gabrielle” the space object and its moon which caused this mess, have been rename Eris and Dysnomia:
"In mythology, Eris caused a quarrel among goddesses that sparked the Trojan War. In real life, Eris forced scientists to define a planet that eventually led to Pluto getting the boot. Soon after Pluto’s dismissal from the planet club, hundreds of scientists circulated a petition protesting the decision.
Eris’ moon also received a formal name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness." - from Space.com
Nice. That sounds much sexier than object 2003 UB313.
There was a goddess named Eris that was a love goddess in some society, which means that Venus can now be up in arms too.
No. “Eros” is the love you’re thinking of. “Eris” is discord. Which is why it’s funny that they named this thing it, after it’s caused such a hullabaloo.
now that you said that I think your right, sorry for the mistake
Right, because the name Pluto came from the planet. Not Roman mythology or anything like that.
Sailor Pluto though, that poor girl is screwed.