Pluto bounces back
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Save Pluto!
:laugh: Would be funny if plutonians (if they exists) knows about our kind gesture.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Save Pluto!
:laugh: Would be funny if plutonians (if they exists) knows about our kind gesture.
They might also be pissed off that we deemed to demote their home :)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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They might also be pissed off that we deemed to demote their home :)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
They might also be pissed off that we deemed to demote their home
Yea, WW III would be earth vs pluto.:)
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It would seem that Pluto was dealt with unfairly[^]. Bring back Pluto!
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
This whole thing is so utterly ridiculous. And the determination of what makes a planet and what isn't is absurd as well. I feel like, more and more, these so called scientists are losing their grasp on sanity. Maybe it was wrong to call Pluto a planet, maybe it wasn't. But to spend countless hours arguing about it, my god. It's like watching four year olds. "Is to!" "Is Not!" "Is To!" "Is Not!". Pathetic. Marc -- modified at 7:37 Friday 25th August, 2006 -- modified at 7:38 Friday 25th August, 2006
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It would seem that Pluto was dealt with unfairly[^]. Bring back Pluto!
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
I just can't believe that people that have studied 4+ years (I guess?) at university have nothing better to do than argue about definitions. Shouldn't they be looking for aliens or something? But maybe I'm not in a position to comment... I just don't understand the fascination with space :confused:
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This whole thing is so utterly ridiculous. And the determination of what makes a planet and what isn't is absurd as well. I feel like, more and more, these so called scientists are losing their grasp on sanity. Maybe it was wrong to call Pluto a planet, maybe it wasn't. But to spend countless hours arguing about it, my god. It's like watching four year olds. "Is to!" "Is Not!" "Is To!" "Is Not!". Pathetic. Marc -- modified at 7:37 Friday 25th August, 2006 -- modified at 7:38 Friday 25th August, 2006
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
It would seem that Pluto was dealt with unfairly[^]. Bring back Pluto!
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
screw Pluto.
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It would seem that Pluto was dealt with unfairly[^]. Bring back Pluto!
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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It would seem that Pluto was dealt with unfairly[^]. Bring back Pluto!
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
Bring back Pluto!
Part of the problem dates back to the original discovery of Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh is credited with the discovery, though he used research from 1909, William H. Pickering and Percival Lowell's work which turned out to be very close in predicting the location of Pluto. Using the math from Lowell, and the diligent search by Tombaugh, with many plates of images over years showing movement of "something" against the background stars, Pluto was declared a planet. This was where the controversy started. Many people were angry that Pluto was declared a planet without review, only presentation of evidence. It turned out Lowell and Pickering were completely wrong. The discovery of Pluto was written off as a fluke, and Tombaugh spent a lot of time fighting the demotion of his planet through most of his life. Because Tombaugh himself was a believer in ET and UFO related research, many scientists were dedicated to destruction of Tombaugh's work, the promotion of Pluto as a planet. This didn't start yesterday, or last week, or even last year. This has been going on since 1930. When he saw and started promoting interest in UFO's in 1948/1949, things just got worse. Tombaugh was considered a "bad scientist" and the destruction of his work was even more dedicated. To add insult to injury, Tombaugh did a detailed search of the skies, finding 14 asteroids, but eventually declaring that "no other object of a comparable magnitude existed near the ecliptic" which essentially meant, "I discovered the last planet, you are out of luck." This made the search for a new "Planet X" a major effort in international astronomy. The goal was to prove Tombaugh wrong, to find a new planet. The dedication to destruction of Tombaugh's work died down in the 70's and 80's, mostly due to disappointment in the mass search to prove him wrong -- it wasn't discovering anything at all to prove him wrong. Call it depression, or just age, many of the Astronomer's alive at the time of Tombaugh's discovery just didn't have the "umph" to fight the discovery of Pluto. A few were able to pass on the dedication, but the fact that UFO's dropped in news, Tombaugh made no more major discoveries, things were decidedly at a "standstill". Even locals were divided over Tombaugh, can you disagree with the man, but honor him for his discovery at the same time? Many could not. In 1992 there was a discovery of one of the larger asteroids in the ecliptic, (15760) 1992
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I just can't believe that people that have studied 4+ years (I guess?) at university have nothing better to do than argue about definitions. Shouldn't they be looking for aliens or something? But maybe I'm not in a position to comment... I just don't understand the fascination with space :confused:
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
I just can't believe that people that have studied 4+ years (I guess?) at university have nothing better to do than argue about definitions. Shouldn't they be looking for aliens or something?
Actually "looking for aliens" is exactly why Pluto had to be demoted. It was Tombaugh's later dedication to UFO research that renewed anger and dedication to remove Pluto from planetary status.
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