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Pluto Could Lose Planet Status
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| 21 June 2006
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Posted on 06/22/2006 4:11:12 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: dc27; SW6906
And RAM. And disk. And GHz. And bandwidth. And Pixels.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:48:18 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Run amuck. There's a lotta mucks out there a-waitin' to be run!)
To: PatrickHenry
Pluto Could Lose Planet Status
Should we take up a collection to help Pluto maintain its status?? Is there a license or something that has to be renewed?
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:49:05 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Erasmus
Sheesh! You're right, but there's a character limit on the tagline! ;o)
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:50:07 AM PDT
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: pleikumud
Can we throw Kerry out of the Solar System?
To: DannyTN
What do we call a planet that's not orbiting a star? Is it still a planet? From the origin of the word, even more so.
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posted on
06/22/2006 5:52:10 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Run amuck. There's a lotta mucks out there a-waitin' to be run!)
To: DannyTN
Some small stars orbit a larger star or stars, and yet they are stars rather than planets. The currently closest star which isn't the Sun to Earth, Proxima is a small star orbiting two larger stars who have a sort of insular binary system between them.
To: Gorjus
in English, at least American English, Earth's moon is the Moon. Also, the Solar System is the Solar System (not the Sol system) and the Sun is the Sun (not Sol).
To: <1/1,000,000th%
I always thought that "Planet X" was a cool name, particularly before they found the thing. They knew it had to be there from the gravitational effects, which is also why they used to think that Pluto was much bigger than it really is.
"Planet X" has it all: mystery, science and it's the Roman numeral for 10, and planets all have Roman names anyway.
Of course, according to ALF, the universe already named it Dave. Or it might've been Alvin.
TS
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:00:59 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: PatrickHenry
This means I have to get a new moonbat non-sequitur bumper sticker: "US out of solar system".
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:04:56 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(I'm not paranoid, just pragmatic.)
To: william clark
According to the 1966 episode, "cybermen were from Earths twin planet, Mondas, which evolved along similar lines to our world but drifted away from us and into deep space millennia ago."
To: Tanniker Smith
"Planet X" has it all: mystery, science and it's the Roman numeral for 10, and planets all have Roman names anyway. Only because we don't use the Greek names in English. Then they'd be; Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, Cronos, Ouranos, Poseidon and Hades.
To: PatrickHenry
What!?
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:20:12 AM PDT
by
xp38
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Right, and that would just be silly. We'd have Hermes astronuats and Cronos V rockets. And then we'd have to call it Planet Chi or something.
TS
(And then instead of all the clip art of Pluto(tm), we'd have clip are of Chia Pets.)
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:31:51 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: PatrickHenry
And the Intergalactic Union of Planets will be meeting to decide whether or not to move Earth from its Official Listing of Planent Dominated by Intelligent Lifeforms to its Official Listing of Planent Inhabited by Intelligent Lifeforms (if only for the dolphins, of course).
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:36:00 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: rhombus
When I was a boy, I remember dinosaurs called "Brontosauruses." Palentologists apparently got bored and renamed them, as I recall. You don't hear so much about brontosauruses any more. Pluto must be undergoing the same wrath. It's job security for astronomers, I suppose.
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:37:23 AM PDT
by
Lou L
To: DainBramage
To: PatrickHenry
Pluto's an undocumented planet. Just doing the rotating around the Sun that our Solar System other planets won't do.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
How'd they explain how the people didn't freeze as they drifted away from the Sun in the storyline?
To: PatrickHenry
Hey, Pluto! Don't let the door hit Uranus on the way out!
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posted on
06/22/2006 6:46:24 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(This is no time for bleeding hearts, pacifists, and appeasers to prevail in free world opinion.)
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