New Mexico: Declaring Pluto a Planet

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http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/03/new-mexico-takes-stand-on-pluto.html

Wha, wha, what? Dose the NM leg' have nothing better to do? And CA.... come on.

I guess all I really can do is laugh.
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excidius · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject:

It's like legislating the value of pi to 3.
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neon · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject:

I don't know, I miss Pluto. Poor guy's out of a job now. Crying or Very sad

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Approves of the above post!

BarkAtTheMoon · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject:

These people act like this is all some great insult to Pluto. It's a freaking hunk of rock and ice a long way away. I think Pluto will get over it.

Specus_Meretricis · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject:

Well then. I questioned my place in the universe when it snowed the other day. I was not expecting the snow and it caused psychological harm to myself and others. Michigan weather is very instable and it affects us all! This needs to be Legislated and fast! We all like to talk about the weather but no one is willing to do anything about it!
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tonyman1989 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject:

I heard that pluto wasn't a planet any more, but why I never heard the new difintioin of a planet what is it.
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neon · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

monkeybyte · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

C'mon, he's a God of the Underworld, let the poor bastard have at least a planet for real estate.
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SalsaShark · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject:

Fuck Pluto. While we're at it we should cut out Mercury and Mars too.
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SteveInSF · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

Wiktionary's definition:

Planet
(astronomy) Any of various rocky or gaseous spherical bodies orbiting the Sun, specifically the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The Galilean moons, four asteroids, and the dwarf planet Pluto were formerly included, in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries respectively.

Seems that Pluto was not the first to go.
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benyjets23 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

Mercury dies of aids, Pluto gets the boot. Whose next?

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physik · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject:

I believe in Pluto(tm)
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Uncertainty · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

Does anyone think it matters whether pluto is a planet or not? It's just some word we made up to describe something, it's not like Pluto's up there wondering. Or aliens are going to come down and be like "Haha, you guys think Plutos a planet?! We are soo out of here." I'm amazed when I see people arguing about it or telling me definately it is or isn't, especially when it's not even someone who is involved in science.

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