Pluto Not a Planet?

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  1. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Because the pluto voting was on the last day of the seminar, and very few people were left, and most of them were the ones who had something against Pluto. All the other Asrtonomers just thought of it as another voting, and left.

    IIRC: If the voting would've been a political election the people who actually voted were so few that consensus couldn't have been claimed. :)
     
  2. Spuddy

    Spuddy New Member

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    Or a Disney character.

    As for the Pro-Pluto Rebellion, there was some movement in that direction over in the Easily Stirred States, exactly because of the alleged illegality of the vote on the matter.

    Personally, I couldn't care less whether the chunk of ice is called a planet or not. What difference does it make? What difference does it make for Pluto, who is surely the aggrieved party, if such is to be had?
     
  3. Telcontar

    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    Meh when the earth gets hit by an asteroid and everybody dies, it wont matter anyway...
     
  4. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    Way to go and just kill the whole vibe in here Tel.
     
  5. Telcontar

    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    Well you know its true. Who will care whether pluto is a planet then hmmmmm?
     
  6. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    Well, being in the Earth's Core I'll probably survive the impact.
     
  7. Telcontar

    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    But if all of the oceans are destroyed, there is nothing your soft, starfish body can bathe and masterbate in.
     
  8. Blinky969

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    Easily solved. Get a bigger comet, then tell comet one that comet two said his formation point is a shithole, and watch comet one get mad. He'll revolve on over to comet two and then, bam, gravitational bitch slap. Then you'll have one, big, brain damaged comet with an altered direction of velocity that's likely to stumble into a planet or something.
     
  9. xento

    xento New Member

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    Or a forum. There tend to be a lot of braindead, bitch-slapped inanimate objects posting bullshit here and there.

    We haven't really lost a planet per se, we've just gained a new subclass. Now there are dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, among others, that will bring the overall planet count of our cute little solar system to 12.

    I just await the day that they finally realize that Mars is a pirate planet.
     
  10. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    I want Mars to be reclassified as a dwarf so that there is actually a planet called the 'Red Dwarf'.
     
  11. Telcontar

    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    What the hell is so appealing about a planet called "the red dwarf"?
     
  12. Spuddy

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    Never seen Arnold Judas Rimmer amuse his crew mates, have you, Telcontar?
     
  13. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    The poor soul hasn't lived, or on the other hand, perhaps hes better off having not seen it.
     
  14. Telcontar

    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    Is this some stupid Star Trek episode or something.
     
  15. xento

    xento New Member

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    Read.

    With a name like "Rimmer", I'd imagine he could toss an excellent salad.
     
  16. wobbler

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    Wow. Salad. That should be nice for dinner...
    Anyway, Mars couldnät possible be reclassified as a dwarf because it's just to big. It's against the same physical laws that keep the elks from lossing a battle.
     
  17. xento

    xento New Member

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    I don't know about that. An elk is a gigantic species of deer with large antlers and a bad disposition to match, and yet a tiny bullet that weights but a few ounces can easily take it down in a head-to-head "battle."
     
  18. wobbler

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    That's not because the bullet or the hunter wins. That's because the elk is bored and wanna go to the life after this one. They might pretend they don't wanna get caught, but thats only a show.
     
  19. Blinky969

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    Or you just huffed ether and also thing geese hold the path to redemption.
     
  20. Telcontar

    Telcontar Well-Known Member

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    Why the hell dont they just drop dead or jump of a cliff or jump into a river to get to the "afterlife" if they are too bored to run for their lives?
     
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