NASA has discovered an Earth type planet. How long before Dr. Tyson fatwahs it?
Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!If, in the future, it's discovered that Pluto : A) is NOT really part of the Kuiper Belt and B) does clear its neighborhood, would it be reclassified as a planet again?
Hide / Show RepliesNo. The IAU (or rather certain sections of it) has long hungered to demote Pluto for basically personal reasons. They will never back down and admit they were wrong. They've emotionally too much invested in its reduced status. It's an example of ideological led change. You see it all the time.
Agreed! The official "reason" is that Pluto has not swept out its orbit. Neither has Neptune. Meteor shower last week and Schumacher Levi last Millennium prove that Earth and Jupiter will be fatwahed next.
Or they may use their original definition: Pluto must e fatwahed because it is the smallest planet. So now Mercury is the smallest ad will be fatwahed next, then Mars etc.
Wait a second. PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET, IT'S JUST A DWARF PLANET! ARE YOU SAYING THAT DWARVES AREN'T PEOPLE!??!!!?!??!!!!!?!
Leave your dignity at the door.Lale: The page image. I recognize Galactus, but who's the other guy?
Hide / Show RepliesUnicron. It's a stupid joke, because he actually does eat moons and the like.
Where did this ideology even come from? You think dwarf planets are less important than big planets?! You better watch you micro-aggressions, bro! 😠
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