.......Pluto

[200%Michael]

Okay, they spent like 50 years debating weather it was a planet or not, and finally decided it wasn't..Some guys spent their entire life trying to find out..


Does it really matter people? Get on with your fluffing lives and stop worrying about the small stuff like that that doesnt matter.

[Iron Coyote]

About a month before that event, Silverscale and I wrote a research paper declaring that Pluto was not a planet. In my opinion, the word "planet" is just that, a word.

[CassieLassie]

Yeah. Science wise, it's not.
Philoshpy wise, I think, that none of them are.

[Silver]

As Coyote said, we've (I've) written a paper explaining why pluto should not be a planet. Coincidentally, they decided to declare pluto as not a planet three months after our (my) paper was written.

Fact is, giant balls of ice are not planets. If we don't make rules about the universe outside earth (not just random namings and suck), it is goiing to look like a road map of England.

[Ristaag]

The whole issue was incredibly stupid. There were plenty of bigger rocks orbitting the sun that could have been called planets, but people fail to realize that the reason Pluto was so important as one of the nine was because it was one of the Roman/Greek gods. Sure, the criteria for being a god at the time was rather broad (showing up as a faint light in the sky every decade or so), but to deny twenty-five hundred years of completely irrelevant knowledge is a pretty pointless thing to do. That is like challenging the slogan of McDonald's. Maybe I'm not loving it. Come to think of it, I hate McDonald's. That slogan is wrong. Pluto is not a planet.