9/5/06
It's simple logic. Russia is cold. Siberia is even colder. Pluto is the coldest place.

Q.E.D. Pluto was a Soviet outpost during the Cold War.

There's a motif in there somewhere.

If you thought "Pluto's here. Pluto's a sphere. Deal with it." was bad, check this out.

Pluto is Planet-Ex.

 

NOW THAT'S JUST HITTING BELOW THE BELT! LEAVE PLUTO ALONE! YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS!

Remember that day when I posted about Pluto losing its planethood? Well I reposted a summary to Slashdot as Anonymous Coward and it was modded up twice!

Another Anonymous Coward responded:

Damn. You just managed to turn Pluto into a left-wing/right-wing talking point. Ever consider hosting a right-wing talk show? You'd go far.

Indeed! Unfortunately I don't believe that Fox News is hiring and the money would make me feel dirty if raddidge didn't make me feel guilty.

Someone with more balls than myself or the aforementioned Anonymous Coward chimed in with this:

> No one in the USA uses metric.

Funnily enough, one of the changes I noticed in my brother after he came back from the US Army Infantry bootcamp was that he had started thinking of distances in meters. I also use meters to estimate distances on foot, though I wasn't indoctrinated by the military - I just like to be weird, and since yards are so close to meters it makes me feel like that season of high school football wasn't a total waste.
Oh, and if I'm not mistaken - wasn't the "standard" system developed in Europe? I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here. It seems like you're trying to be sarcastic with that second paragraph, but isn't it all true (except of course for the use of metric)? You must be one of those conservative simpletons who thinks that any criticism of the US makes one a traitor. The US was a great place when it was a Republic, and I believe it can be great again when it shakes itself loose from the corporate facism of which it is currently enamored. Of couse, people will have to stop voting like the media wants them to for this to happen.
Back on topic, I would tend to agree that it's a little silly to get all worked up over a scientific definition.[sarcasm] But you have to realize that everybody in the US was taught by rote memorization so critical thinking is not our strong suit...[/sarcasm] Oh well.

The solar system is gifted with ni^H^H eight planets presumably a rarity since most indirect observations of distant planets appear to show that planets may be rare. Considering the fact that there are nin^H^H^H eight planets, the Earth's aboriginal people may have examples of all kinds of possible worlds which exist in the universe.

Unfortunately there's no way to be sure. Humans only know eight planets, the universe is a large place and it would be wholly unscientific to draw conclusions based upon a small sample of evidence!

In short, the IAU rushed the definition and really didn't lay satisfactory groundwork to support them. Much like the Bush administration and their Iraqi WMDs. If both parties had exercised patience rather than pursuing their own personal beliefs and goals, reason and science would prevail!

Because I have built up tremendous karma over at Slashdot. I'm proud of this dubious achievement. I knew my remark was inflammatory by insulting the parent and being worded as a right-wing screed. Everyone at Slashdot is a mewling liberal who defer to the infallible wisdom of Al Gore, Europe and the well-meaning but non-egalitarian kook du jour.

Just because I harbor conservative beliefs doesn't mean that I'm some fundamentalist Christian and Republican. I'm a libertarian atheist who enjoys trolling people.

Sadly I've just diminished my reputation by several orders explaining myself when I really oughtn't be explaining myself to you, gentle reader.

I'm still proud of my entry and it rekindled my enthusiasm for heptapod.org.

You know, last night I actually had a dream which was pretty coherent. Yet it was fragile as a soap bubble and no trace remained in my head upon waking on Labrador Day morning. Shit and I was so excited in the dream that I was going to have a dream to post here at heptapod.org.