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[History_Buff]

Well, to be honest, I prefer that they teach stuff like spelling and math instead. Knowing about the Kuiper Belt is rather redundant, unless you are into astronomy or "sci-fi-ey" stuff, in which case you'll find out about it soon enough anyway.

Oh we should be doing that stuff too. If anything there's not enough of Math and Science and basic Literacy in school. Which is a damn shame, because there would have been plenty of time to learn it if we didn't have to learn the same . .. .. .. . again and again.

I don't see why we can't have gotten to Keplerian Motion by at least grade 9.

 

[Japanrocks12]

I'm in that facebook group too

as am I.


amen.

 

[Bill3000]

I'm sorry, but removal of planethood or not, "dwarf planet" is just a really lame name for a label of Pluto.

 

[azzaman333]

Dwarf planet just sounds pathetic...

It should be classified as a "big floating rock that isn't quite awesome enough to be a planet but we want it to feel special anyway"

 

[Perfection]

Pluto isn't a rock.

I agree though that "dwarf planet" is a sucky label. Call it a "planetoid" and maybe an "icetroid" or some poop like that (in addition to KBO).

 

[azzaman333]

Fine then, "big floating space-thingy that isn't quite awesome enough to be a planet but we want it to feel special anyway"

 

[Perfection]

Pluto lacks feelings.

 

[LightFang]

I remember a really great political cartoon about it.

It was a bunch of planets eating dinner at the dinner table, and one of the planets (I think it was Jupiter) said "Yes, Pluto, you have to eat at the dwarf planet table."

Or something. My memory is kind of fuzzy.

 

[JohnRM]

The IAU can go to Hell.

 

[Winner]

Let us remember... Pluto. Everyone's favorite planet.

Ex-planet

 

[Winner]

The IAU can go to Hell.

IAU did the right thing. No matter how you look at it, Pluto is simply one of the Kuiper Belt objects, nothing but a large piece of ice and dust. It can't be compared with major planetary bodies. Making it a planet was a mistake, which waited 70 years to be corrected.

Don't bring national pride into this.

 

[aaglo]

Astrologers of the world were in shock... right?
Pluto is just another kuiper-belt object - and people should start treating it that way.

 

[Perfection]

The IAU can go to Hell.

I agree, we don't need them to tell us what is a planet. I've been going against thier cruddy inclusion of Pluto as a planet for years, I'm not gonna stop calling them poopy buttfaces just because they finally acknowledged it and made a really stupid "dwarf planet" catagory to throw it in.

 

[JohnRM]

IAU did the right thing. No matter how you look at it, Pluto is simply one of the Kuiper Belt objects, nothing but a large piece of ice and dust. It can't be compared with major planetary bodies. Making it a planet was a mistake, which waited 70 years to be corrected.

Don't bring national pride into this.

How did I ever bring "national pride" into this?

 

[Winner]

How did I ever bring "national pride" into this?

Americans opposed the decision mainly bacause Pluto was the only "planet" discovered by an American. I suppose that's why you hate the IAU.

 

[JohnRM]

Americans opposed the decision mainly bacause Pluto was the only "planet" discovered by an American. I suppose that's why you hate the IAU.

To be perfectly honest, there are probably only a few things that I could care less about than the official status of Pluto. I just said what I did in jest. I really don't care. Pluto is out there, billions of miles away, and it means nothing to me.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

The rock and ice ball is still there. Who cares how it is classified?

 

[Winner]

The rock and ice ball is still there. Who cares how it is classified?

Media ....

 

[Catharsis]

Let's shave bits off Mercury, see how it likes it. Smug twozack planet, weather's always sunny, years are shorter so more birthdays... it's too full of itself, Mercury.

 

[aaglo]

Too full of itself or not, it's still a planet