Queen guitarist Brian May weighs in on Pluto as a planet (he has a doctorate in astrophysics)

CNET ^ | August 29, 2019 | Amanda Kooser

[lee martell]

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.

[Nateman]

Planet or not plutonium is still element #94 which is the greater honor. So far over 8000 planets around other stars have been found. New Horizons was the only probe to visit that world and what was its power source?

Plutonium!

[equaviator]

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.

[Mashood]

The discoverer of Pluto was my next door neighbor back in the 70’s.

[SoFloFreeper]

+1

[NativeSon]

He may not be the Newton we want but he’s the Newton we need.

I would like some Fig Newtons to go with my coffee.

[EEGator]

Where was this? (I have no clue)

[Hot Tabasco]

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......

[Tallguy]

I see he’s rocking the “Sir Isaac Newton” look there...

[Calvin Locke]

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.

[Cecily]

That picture looks like the young John Deacon too.

[zeestephen]

In case you don't know, the guy in my first post is Isaac Newton, the legendary English astro-physicist who worked out all the mathematics for planetary motion in our solar system in the late 1600s.

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.

[Mathews]

I thought the drummer sung all the stupidly high notes?

[dljordan]

“He looks a bit like Issac Newton”

Just what I was thinking. The great Alchemist.

[bgill]

[dp0622]

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!!

[Magnum44]

LoL

[1Old Pro]

I would like to play his guitar. He and his father built it pretty much from scratch

Steve Morse has you tube videos about his custom guitar, very interesting.

[dp0622]

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.

[G Larry]

If Pluto thinks its a planet, then damnit, ITS A PLANET!!!!