Pluto gets the boot
 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

My thoughts..... Who gives a fuck.

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Many very early men just sat upon new ......

Doh.

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In other news, the "day after pill" was just approved by the FDA for over-the-counter dispensing!!! WOO-HOO! I'm going to stock up ;)

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Sweet, the invention of Dwarf planets! I can't wait for Midget planets to come out :)

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I saw that to, I see a very good stock opportunity there!

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So the astronomers got paid all of thaat money to include pluto in the day and now get paid all that money to disclude it.

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what money? Those nerds do it for free!

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Most astronomers are freelancers. Very few paid scientists actually discover anything.

For what it's worth Pluto has been referred to as a planet for 76 years since its discovery in 1930, so it will be a bit hard to swallow for some people. Though it's hardly bigger than a large asteroid, it does have three known satellites, or moons.

Personally, I still see it as a regular planet. UB313, which is beyond Pluto but still orbits the Sun, is larger than Pluto yet is now classified as a dwarf planet... This shit just doesn't make any sense to me. UB313 has a moon as well.

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I was kinda surprised at the reasoning being that it's orbit crosses the orbit of Neptune, but hey, that's why 200 nerds sat around and fought over it for a while, so we wouldn't have to. :p

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Well, whatever they decide, I'll stand by it. I love things having to do with space. Which is why I am planning on building a spaceship. I don't know when... but I will.

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^ shotgun
FT fucking W!!!!!!!

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I'll build a space ship with you man. FUCK THEY ALIENS, ILL KILL THE NUCKAS!

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Damn this sucks, The plutonians are gonna be pissed when they hear this. i can see it now...
Plutonian #1: Dude, WTF? This fucking planet earth just kicked us out of the Galaxy saying we werent big enough... fuck them...
Plutonian #2: Fucking lame dude, We need to do something about this... Lets do a good ol' invasion, that'll show em.
Plutonian 3 4 and 5: Yeah im with ya on that one bro, but we only have a population of 5 people, do we even have a spaceship?
Plutonian #2: Fuck you douches, yo mama loved my rocket ship last night.
Plutonian #3: Umm... dude we all have the same mom.....
(all plutonians look at #2 with a wierd look)
Plutonian #2: What.... aww fuck it lets just shake our tenticals at them and yell bad words.

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^^ Wow LOL. That made my morning.

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I'm surprised Tom didn't say "testicles" instead of "tenticles", he must have typoed ;) Great skit though, made me chuckle too!

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all this means is that there is one less planet to remember

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Your fucking weird man.

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LOL. That was funny. I had a good laugh :D. Weird, but funny.

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Trite or not at least it keeps space in the news. It has been neglected and the programs mis-run for too long. The X prize was a good start to commercialize space. Also space can give govt something to focus on besides forcing endless conflict overseas to fuel their machine.