Posted on 08/29/2019 9:19:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
You might not care what Keith Richards or Jimmy Page think about Pluto's status as a dwarf planet, but when Queen guitarist Brian May speaks up about it, it's worth a listen.
May, who received his doctorate in astrophysics in 2007, posted his Pluto thoughts on Instagram late Wednesday after hearing about how NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine still thinks of Pluto as a full-on planet.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) tightened up its definition of a planet in 2006 and demoted Pluto to dwarf-planet status, sparking an ongoing debate that just won't rest. May is on the pro-planet side of the argument.
"Pluto was discovered and named as a planet awhile before I was born," May wrote on Instagram. "At that time it was generally instinctively understood that a planet was one of a family of roughly spherical objects that orbited the sun (rather than orbiting something else)."
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A. Brian was upset at an American airport recently.
He still uses his passport photo from the 1970’s.
Same Elizabethan Nobleman hairstyle, but of course he looks different. The Agent looked at the photo, then looked up at Brian. “This picture has black hair, it doesn’t look anything like you. May replied; It happens to us all. It will even happen to you if you’re lucky.”
B. One of the first songs on their White Queen album is
called “Father to Son”. Well written and performed.
I thought about it years back when my father passed.
Plutonium!
Pluto performed so well for NASA spacecraft cameras that they want to restore it to planet status for future missions. If it’s technically a planet, it will require more federal funding to further the exploration of it.
The discoverer of Pluto was my next door neighbor back in the 70’s.
+1
I would like some Fig Newtons to go with my coffee.
Where was this? (I have no clue)
You live your entire life thinking you’re a planet then some naybob comes along and says you’re not. That’s just wrong, people need to mind their own business......
I see he’s rocking the “Sir Isaac Newton” look there...
As much as I’ve come to loathe Neil deGrasse Tyson, he made the point that if Pluto was in the same orbit as the Earth’s, it would sublimate away from solar radiation.
That picture looks like the young John Deacon too.
I never followed Queen, so I did not know their guitarist was also an English astro-physicist.
Here's another portrait of Isaac Newton.
I think the resemblance between Brian May and Newton is quite remarkable and humorous.
I thought the drummer sung all the stupidly high notes?
“He looks a bit like Issac Newton”
Just what I was thinking. The great Alchemist.
39 is about the first colonists to Mars, i think!!
I didn’t know that for almost 40 years until recently.
“for my life still ahead, pity me”
I guess it wasn’t going that well!!
LoL
Steve Morse has you tube videos about his custom guitar, very interesting.
I know and I forget what type of wood they used but I played drums and never knew a guitarist who could emulate his sounds
I learned chords from guitarists and play
But nothing ever sounds like his riffs.
If Pluto thinks its a planet, then damnit, ITS A PLANET!!!!
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