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My Very Excellent Mother Just Said Uh-oh, No Pluto. -Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
My! Very Educated Morons Just Screwed Up Numerous Planetariums -kottke.org
I am all for it with it's all "look at me, I have an highly inclined and overly elliptical orbit." Well whoop-de-doo! -Gangster Octopus, Straight Dope Message Board
Everybody join me in the official science fiction yell of despair. Remember to throw your arms out and your head back:
PLUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! -Nemo, SDMB
I have to think that now that it's no longer a planet, trips to Pluto will now become an affordable spring break option. -IntelInside, SDMB
[in response to katie 1341 stating "I find it very distubing that They can just... deplanetize a planet."]
Well, they did planetize it in the first place.
It's kinda like the old Bill Cosby routine. When he used to tell his kids: "I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!" -The Swan, SDMB
[by the way, I find all this crap about how having Pluto as a planet somehow 'dilutes' the term planet to be on par with similar arguments about gay marriage. Dammit!]
Oooh, angry Astrologers backed by a legion of wrathful Scorpios who no longer have an associated planet. It'd make for a marvellous book concept. I can just imagine the bit where they storm the world's great observatories ... and their brutal terrorist acts with incense and aromatherapy. -Bites When Provoked, SDMB
New Horizons must feel really gutted about this. Imagine setting out to explore the last remaining planet not visited by any space probe OMG!!!, then shortly after you set out, the folks back home say you're just going to visit a big lump of ice.
If I were it, I'd just turn straight around and stomp back home.
Or maybe it's the first probe to visit the exotic new worlds of the "Kuiper Belt" OMG!!! yeah I think that's better. -Nancarrow, SDMB
[and in closing...]
We should all be vigilant against taking the attitude, "Us? Here and now? Yeah, we've got it all figured out. Those fools from fifty years ago, they just didn't know what they were talking about." Because guess who gets to be "the fools" fifty years from now... -Not A Tame Lion, SDMB
[y'all realize I'm not really as pissed off about this as I might seem, right?]
My! Very Educated Morons Just Screwed Up Numerous Planetariums -kottke.org
I am all for it with it's all "look at me, I have an highly inclined and overly elliptical orbit." Well whoop-de-doo! -Gangster Octopus, Straight Dope Message Board
Everybody join me in the official science fiction yell of despair. Remember to throw your arms out and your head back:
PLUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! -Nemo, SDMB
I have to think that now that it's no longer a planet, trips to Pluto will now become an affordable spring break option. -IntelInside, SDMB
[in response to katie 1341 stating "I find it very distubing that They can just... deplanetize a planet."]
Well, they did planetize it in the first place.
It's kinda like the old Bill Cosby routine. When he used to tell his kids: "I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!" -The Swan, SDMB
[by the way, I find all this crap about how having Pluto as a planet somehow 'dilutes' the term planet to be on par with similar arguments about gay marriage. Dammit!]
Oooh, angry Astrologers backed by a legion of wrathful Scorpios who no longer have an associated planet. It'd make for a marvellous book concept. I can just imagine the bit where they storm the world's great observatories ... and their brutal terrorist acts with incense and aromatherapy. -Bites When Provoked, SDMB
New Horizons must feel really gutted about this. Imagine setting out to explore the last remaining planet not visited by any space probe OMG!!!, then shortly after you set out, the folks back home say you're just going to visit a big lump of ice.
If I were it, I'd just turn straight around and stomp back home.
Or maybe it's the first probe to visit the exotic new worlds of the "Kuiper Belt" OMG!!! yeah I think that's better. -Nancarrow, SDMB
[and in closing...]
We should all be vigilant against taking the attitude, "Us? Here and now? Yeah, we've got it all figured out. Those fools from fifty years ago, they just didn't know what they were talking about." Because guess who gets to be "the fools" fifty years from now... -Not A Tame Lion, SDMB
[y'all realize I'm not really as pissed off about this as I might seem, right?]
