It’s planet X (as in 10) damnit. Pluto is still a freaking planet.
I saw a video of how this crap about Pluto being demoted happened. It was at a conference of a couple of hundred astronomers. A vote was taken and Pluto lost.
Really? Is that how “science” works these days?
I saw a video of how this crap about Pluto being demoted happened. It was at a conference of a couple of hundred astronomers. A vote was taken and Pluto lost.
Really? Is that how “science” works these days?"
Yup! That is how "science" works these days, and it isn't limited to the planetary sciences.
Epidemiology, virology...
Really? Is that how “science” works these days?
Yup. Pluto got Punk’D.
Well yes, they took a vote at a conference. And Pluto lost. (It was conference consensus, right? And Pluto lost ... because it was discovered by an American, and the euro’s were jealous of Bush.)