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>> No. 3739 Anonymous
4th October 2014
Saturday 8:06 pm
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Who needs science when we have the overwhelming weight of public opinion to guide us?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/is-pluto-about-to-be-reinstated-as-a-planet-9769753.html
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>> No. 3740 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 2:34 am
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I liked Pluto being 'downgraded' to dwarf planet.
Brought to light the fact that the outer reaches of the solar system have a lot more in them than we knew of before, and it was an upgrade for Ceres (which is a cooler little planetoid anyway).
>> No. 3741 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 11:40 am
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A planet is a big round thing that isn't a star. I don't give a crap what the IAU says .
>> No. 3742 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:00 pm
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>>3741

Good luck with your /lab/ career, professor. I'll look forward to your next paper.
>> No. 3744 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:08 pm
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>>3743

Audible mirth.
>> No. 3745 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:09 pm
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>>3742

A Treatise on Big Round Things: Why the London Eye is a Planet and How I Learned To Stop Giving a Crap What the IAU Says by Dr. T. Fuckwit Ph.D (internet) & Baz MSci (hard knocks) et al.
>> No. 3746 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:10 pm
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>>3745

You bastard.
>> No. 3747 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:12 pm
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>>3746

I'm terribly sorry. I made a couple of grammatical errors and I couldn't live with myself if I inflicted them on you lot. He said, in a post full of grammatical errors.
>> No. 3748 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:16 pm
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>>3742
>>3745

As if it isn't a perfectly robust definition. The best definition the IAU could come up with is whatever Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are and nothing else is.
>> No. 3749 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:23 pm
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>>3748

I can see you've researched the issue thoroughly and I'll defer to your both meaty and girthy opinions, professor.
>> No. 3751 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 12:24 pm
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>>3748

Isn't that sort of what they've done, albeit with more standardised rules than just naming planets?
>> No. 3752 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 2:08 pm
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>>3751

They just decided that those eight planets were the only planets, and then invented a definition that would fit with that decision. There was never anything scientific about it.
>> No. 3753 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 2:38 pm
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>>3752

Pluto doesn't have a sufficient gravitational pull to clear its orbit of debris, so it doesn't meet the 1 of the 3 most basic criteria for planethood which are 1) as I've already mentioned 2) be more or less 3) orbits a Star.

Astronomers have discovered bodies in the last 100 years that are similar to Pluto, some that are in fact bigger than it, and they aren't considered planets because they haven't cleared their orbit and it inspired the new classification system because they aren't true planets and neither is Pluto. Sentimentality has no place in the debate.

Are you an astrology enthusiast or something? Mystic Meg, is that you?
>> No. 3754 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 2:39 pm
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>>3753

*more or less round.
>> No. 3755 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 5:37 pm
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>>3744
What was >>3743
>> No. 3756 Anonymous
5th October 2014
Sunday 5:43 pm
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>>3755
>>3745
>> No. 3757 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 3:37 pm
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>>3753
Yes, and this makes a mockery of the conservatism of the 'audience vote' because if you're going to call Pluto a planet and not be called a shit scientist you'll have to call all the other dwarf planets planets too, so you won't end up with the nine planets you so crave anyway.
>> No. 3758 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 4:01 pm
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Holst didn't write a Pluto movement, so it can't be a planet!
>> No. 3759 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 4:04 pm
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>>3758
He didn't write an earth movement either though m8
>> No. 3760 Anonymous
7th October 2014
Tuesday 4:27 pm
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>>3759
I move the earth for your mum every time I see her m8
>> No. 3805 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>3758
This lad fucking gets it
>> No. 3806 Anonymous
9th January 2015
Friday 12:18 am
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>>3805
That reply was well worth waiting for, lad. Top job.

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