Pluto is no more

[m0ds]

It appears we no longer have 9 planets in our solar system. Gash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5282440.stm

The page has a bunch of stats about Pluto, and it has 3 of it's own moons AND is still having a probe sent to it in 2015 - so I don't see why they should downgrade it. Oh well. I guess it's only a planet! :p Or...was only a planet.

[MrColossal]

man, now all these kids who are presenting dioramas of the solar system are getting BIG FAT Fs today!

Hooray for science!

Also... it's a little known fact but in the early 1900's 4 scientists went on an expedition to Pluto, then known as Planet X... I hope to tell you more about it some day!

[Tuomas]

Yes well, the weak have to go... Besides it was in the local newspaper the other day that they are planning on naming new planets to our solar system. things like Xerox-4 and stuff, but who knows, in fact, who cares.

[Erenan]

Oh.

When I read the title, "Pluto is no more," I immediately pictured it exploding.

Some people like fireworks.

[Mr Flibble]

The thing is, if pluto can be considered a planet, then so can about 50 other things floating around our solar system...

I thought it would be "kinda neat" to have 12 official planets, but somehow having 8 seems empty. Its like we've taken the smallest kid on the football team and kicked him out.

[ManicMatt]

I was hoping it was about a particular disney character..

[Becky]

The label of a giant ball of rock orbiting my sun being changed affects my life so much

[SSH]

I always preferred Goofy or Donald, anyway...

[m0ds]

Well, I think it's a shame - merely because I was educated to know there were 9 planets, and that it could well be the last planet with a cool name. All the new ones are Syntax-32 or A48GIF2 etc... Still, I'm into astronomy and the night sky, but I guess some of yous aren't. That's fine.

Because for you people, I found this.

[Evil]

Well, after revising the technicalities for what is considered a planet, they say that now there are more then three other "objects" that could now be considered planets. So in getting smaller, we may even expand.

[Domino]

Poor Pluto. Since we no longer want him/her in our solar system, maybe we can find somebody in another galaxy to take him/her in. I guess we'll have to put him/her up for adoption and hope some other galaxy is looking to add more planets to their solar system.

Bye Pluto, i never met you, but you'll always be family to me.  :'(

[Etcher Squared Games]

My
Very
Energetic
Mother
Just
Sent
Us
Nine.....

....nine what?  there's nothing for my mom to send us anymore   :'(

[Domino]

I'm just wondering how long it will take before planets get renamed due to corporate sponsors. I see in the future Jupiter becoming Planet Microsoft, or Venus becoming Planet AOL. It will happen. It seems every corporation has to have their name on everything, just like sports stadiums do in the US.

Imagine, Planet Earth, sponsored by Gatorade....oh damn them!! 


edit: Next Mittens on Pluto

[EagerMind]

Stupid scientists. What do they know, really? Somebody should hit them all with a ball peen hammer.

Pluto is dead. Long live Pluto!

[Timosity]

I'm just wondering how long it will take before planets get renamed due to corporate sponsors.

I was just thinking the other day, "I wonder if they'll ever be able to project something on the moon" I'm sure they could send up some satelite projector and have an image big enough that we could see from earth. It would be totally going too far though. Virgin Moon


As far as Pluto maybe not being considered a planet, it's still a rock that orbits the sun, it's not like anything is going to physically change. I remember seeing on the news the other night they were going to honour Pluto by having another class of smaller planet type things and call them Plutons

[Ali]

I was just thinking the other day, "I wonder if they'll ever be able to project something on the moon"

I heard Pepsi were considering it.

EDIT: I was reminded of the Red Dwarf thing when I first read about Pepsi as well. I guessed that this was what the book was satirising. Also, Coke Adds Life!

[Mr Flibble]

Reminds me of that bit in the Red Dwarf book, where they make hundreds of stars go supernova to spell out "Coca Cola" in the sky.

I don't know what I'd think about that, but I certainly wouldn't think about drinking pepsi.

[Slava]

Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin could have told us this many years ago!

[Mr Flibble]

Coke Adds Life!

I just had a mental image of god looking at the earth, then at his bottle of coke, then back at the earth again, then back to the coke.

EDIT:
Sounds more like a Dr Pepper advert.
"Whats the worst that could happen..."

[Erenan]

You spelled Dr Pepper correctly. Good work!