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To: Telepathic Intruder
To be a killjoy, Pluto is a tiny ball of ice in perpetual near darkness. It is unlike a planet in every way except being round. No one will ever see it with their own eyes.

Never say never. Someday, perhaps in your lifetime, perhaps in a hundred years, somebody may discover something worth mining there.

76 posted on 10/25/2019 12:49:00 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

Perhaps, but definitely not in our lifetimes. I have nothing against Pluto, I just find it ridiculous that there are thousands of other objects just as notable as Pluto floating around the solar system that don’t have the same celebrity status. Why is that? Because of some irrational human tendency to glorify the already popular. Even if it’s a tiny ball of frozen nitrogen billions of miles away. Is that how science works?


77 posted on 10/25/2019 1:02:29 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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