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   Ron Gee said, 9 months ago

   Pluto’s wondering why Goofy talks and wears clothes like a human while he still has to act like a dog.
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   Johnny Potseed said, 9 months ago

   Just one question:Who exactly has “demoted” pluto from a planet to … something else … and who do this guys think they are? In this f@$%&#§ old and wide universe, on an earth, where zillions of humans have lived, why do THEY have the right to “demote” a planet?
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   dukedoug said, 9 months ago

   @Johnny Potseed

   Man creates God in his own image and therefore has the right(s) to do anything.
   Does the Universe care ? … Not one bit …
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   Justice22 said, 9 months ago

   @Johnny Potseed

   They have the right because they know more thanyou do.
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   skeeterhawk said, 9 months ago

   I would guess the scientists of the International Astronomical Union agreed on reclassifying Pluto as a Kuiper Belt object.
   Anyway, Mercury can also boast the longest day. And Venus can boast the hottest temps. Earth can say it’s home to life. Though any level of intelligent life is yet to be seen.
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   nighthawks said, 9 months ago

   what? no pun on Uranus? but that would be so EASY!
   aha. family newspaper and all that, right?
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   phritzg said, 9 months ago

   @dukedoug

   The Universe is a figment of our collective imaginations.
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   Phatts California said, 9 months ago

   @Johnny Potseed

   . . . methinks it was the same organization what made it a planet in the first place . . .
   
   you know the saying … I gave it to you, I can take it away.
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   oldman2013 said, 9 months ago

   plutos still pluto
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    Perkycat said, 9 months ago

    @skeeterhawk

    Ha Ha! Very funny!!
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    Redkaycei Repoc said, 9 months ago

    @skeeterhawk

    Yes you are correct (On all your remarks)
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

    Astronomy Magazine had a writeup of the IAU meeting that demoted Pluto. Apparently most of the Astronomers and Astrophysicists didn’t support the change, but only a relative handful were able to vote on the matter.
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    It was an arbitrary and capricious action (shades of the Administrative Practices Act) by the IAU. Particularly in light of the fact that the definition for a planet is arbitrary and capricious to start with— the term means “wanderer” and these rocks and gas balls out there are planets because people called them planets. There was no actual science involved in renaming Pluto and the other 4 newly discovered planets.
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    iced tea said, 9 months ago

    Earth rocks!
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    cbrsarah said, 9 months ago

    Personally, I think of Pluto as still a planet and the new planet they discovered, whatever that is, is the tenth planet. That’s my opinion on the matter.
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    ahab said, 9 months ago

    http://www.sdss3.org/press/dr9.php the Sloan Digital Sky Survey lll. A 3 dimensional video map of millions of galaxies..
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