One Planet Down, Eight To Go

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Robinator is a Beefcake Lifecrafter Member # 34	written Thursday, August 24 2006 20:17 Profile Homepage #0 Pluto is not a planet. Bugger all this, says here. -------------------- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. 'Spiderweb Software' anagrammmed: 'Word-bereft Awipe' Posts: 702 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00**
Ash Lael E Equals MC What!!!! Member # 5491	written Thursday, August 24 2006 20:46 Profile Homepage #1 About time. -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 \| Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Randomizer Law Bringer Member # 6785	written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:12 Profile #2 If it had gone the other way you would have to learn all the new planetlets. Although they will probably revise the definition in a few years. Posts: 4643 \| Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:32 Profile Homepage #3 Actually Pluto has been retitled a "dwarf planet". So not a full-sized planet, but a planet nonetheless. Anyway, I'm reliably informed that the PC term is "diameter-challenged satellite objects". -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:35 Profile Homepage #4 I can accept it. After all, we get dwarf planets now. It's only a matter of time before we start cultivating bonsai planets for those with the taste for such things. —Alorael, who wouldn't mind a bonsai planet. Maybe it could even orbit him. Then he'd only be a sandestin short of forlorn encystment! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Who Made Who? Warrior Member # 1688	written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:42 Profile #5 Now we'll need a new mnemonic. My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine... uh... :confused: Posts: 60 \| Registered: Wednesday, August 7 2002 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 24 2006 21:45 Profile Homepage #6 New mnemonics in this topic. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
demonslay3r Guardian Member # 2238	written Friday, August 25 2006 09:20 Profile Homepage #7 Pluto will always be a planet in my heart... mainly because we as people have difficulty unlearning something we were taught constantly since our birth. Like racism. Plute is the new slavery. -------------------- DEMON PLAY, DEMON OUT! Posts: 1582 \| Registered: Wednesday, November 13 2002 08:00
Nikki. Shaper Member # 3442	written Friday, August 25 2006 09:28 Profile Homepage #8 I think Western society should be more like Ingsoc in it's approach to the past. Instead of changing our minds about Pluto, lets erase all records of it ever being a planet... Seriously, (who's joking) it's not going to be too difficult to live with. And it shows that we are indeed in silly season with regards to the news. [ Friday, August 25, 2006 09:33: Message edited by: Princess Emerald xx ] -------------------- And when you want to Live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? Name by Slarty Posts: 2864* \| Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Lt. Sullust Shaper Member # 32	written Friday, August 25 2006 10:08 Profile #9 I find the concept of revising and refining a definition to be more appealing. It eliminates alot of ambiguity. -------------------- Lt. Sullust Cogito Ergo Sum Polaris Posts: 2462 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
John S Agent Member # 5814	written Friday, August 25 2006 11:07 Profile #10 Good riddance, I say. It's not like it ever did anything for me. -------------------- quote: Originally written by Kelandon Well, I'm at least pretty Posts: 1115 \| Registered: Sunday, May 15 2005 07:00
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, August 25 2006 17:08 Profile Homepage #11 Just as long as they don't decide that the moon is too large relative to the size of Earth and needs to be reclassified... Dikiyoba. Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Randomizer Law Bringer Member # 6785	written Friday, August 25 2006 17:54 Profile #12 The new mnenomic I saw was My very educated mother just served us nothing Still some day you can tell your children how easy they have it because when you were in school you had to learn the names of 9 planets. For a few years you even had to know that Pluto was closer to the Earth than Neptune. [ Friday, August 25, 2006 18:01: Message edited by: Randomizer ] Posts: 4643 \| Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00
Garrison Agent Member # 2820	written Friday, August 25 2006 19:38 Profile #13 Pluto will still be considered a classic planet, so there is no real loss there. This is only a nit-picky little distinction that the IAU is making, and though it is a dwarf, as in diminutive, planet, it is only a "dwarf planet" in name and title for us normal folk. Also, one should feel lucky that he lived in a time where Pluto was closer to the Earth than Neptune. Your children will have to wait 200+ years for that to happen again. -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 \| Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, August 26 2006 03:44 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Just as long as they don't decide that the moon is too large relative to the size of Earth and needs to be reclassified... Dikiyoba. "Having cleared its neighborhood" sounds like an odd criterion. Imagine they decide that Earth doesn't fit the definition either - that will take some serious rewriting of the science books. :P (But then, so did adapting to the revelation that we were not in fact living on the back of a gigantic turtle.) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Nikki. Shaper Member # 3442	written Saturday, August 26 2006 05:56 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Originally written by Drow: (But then, so did adapting to the revelation that we were not in fact living on the back of a gigantic turtle.) When was this decided? And I'm sure a lot of science books just won't be changed. When I was doing my GCSE's, we were using textbooks that were printed before man landed on the moon... -------------------- And when you want to Live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? Name by Slarty Posts: 2864* \| Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Micawber Agent Member # 2759	written Saturday, August 26 2006 06:31 Profile Homepage #16 And the first GCSE exams were set in 1988 :rolleyes: -------------------- "I can't read this thread with that image. But then, that's not a complaint." -Scorpius Geneforge 4 stuff. Also, everything I know about Avernum \| Avernum 2 \| Avernum 3 \| Avernum 4 Posts: 1104 \| Registered: Monday, March 10 2003 08:00
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Saturday, August 26 2006 06:40 Profile Homepage #17 Originally by Nikki: quote: And I'm sure a lot of science books just won't be changed. Oh, Dikiyoba is sure that the science books will be changed. It's just that no one will be able to afford those new textbooks. Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Nikki. Shaper Member # 3442	written Saturday, August 26 2006 07:30 Profile Homepage #18 That was the problem, Diki - money. I was at an inner city school in quite a poor area of England. And I can't think of an example now, seing how it was over two years ago, but some of the things in the books were awful. In Maths, I do know though, we were using books for 'O levels'. I still have a copy of the good ol' "R2" textbook. It was printed in 1971. -------------------- And when you want to Live How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to know? Name by Slarty Posts: 2864* \| Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Dark Mage Infiltrator Member # 6136	written Saturday, August 26 2006 14:18 Profile #19 (Pluto's inhabitants have started have gone to a massive strike XD) And what happened to that other planet discovered recently being beyond Pluto? And how is related the Planet Pluto to the dog Pluto? Posts: 446 \| Registered: Friday, July 22 2005 07:00
Randomizer Law Bringer Member # 6785	written Saturday, August 26 2006 15:34 Profile #20 quote: And what happened to that other planet discovered recently being beyond Pluto? And how is related the Planet Pluto to the dog Pluto? The other planets beyond Pluto fall into the same dwarf planet class for now as Pluto. This will last until they discover something beyond the Oort cloud that fits the definition of a planet. The dog Pluto was named after the planet Pluto. The planet Pluto was named after the Roman god of the Underworld. [ Saturday, August 26, 2006 19:44: Message edited by: Randomizer ] Posts: 4643 \| Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00
Kingy Lifecrafter Member # 3171	written Saturday, August 26 2006 15:38 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Originally written by Randomizer: The planet Pluto was named after the Greek god of the Underworld. I bet he's mighty pissed right now. Posts: 776 \| Registered: Friday, July 4 2003 07:00
Robinator is a Beefcake Lifecrafter Member # 34	written Saturday, August 26 2006 18:50 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by Kingy: quote: Originally written by Randomizer: The planet Pluto was named after the Greek god of the Underworld. I bet he's mighty pissed right now. They always predict things about the dead rising up whenever the planets align, but when one disappears? Ho, man. I fully expect 'dead man walking' to be a common literal statement any time now. [ Saturday, August 26, 2006 18:53: Message edited by: Robinator, #034 ] -------------------- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. 'Spiderweb Software' anagrammmed: 'Word-bereft Awipe' Posts: 702 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00**
Randomizer Law Bringer Member # 6785	written Saturday, August 26 2006 19:00 Profile #23 My local paper had astrologers already calculating star charts based on the influences of the dwarf planets. Some of them are mad about the demotion of Pluto. Posts: 4643 \| Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00
Diarog Lethuta Warrior Member # 5966	written Sunday, August 27 2006 06:36 Profile Homepage #24 It's rather sad to see it go. Well, it's not really gone, it's still floating around out there. But this is really going to be tough on the schools. Now every single textbook on space is outdated! :P --DL Posts: 91 \| Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00