Alas poor Pluto, we hardly knew ye...

[unclejimbo]

So the scientists decided today to reclassify Pluto from a planet to a dwarf...

*sigh*

Well, there goes a whole lot of time spent on learning that there were 9 planets in our solar system, now we're down to 8...

Thankfully, we got the Pluto-Kuiper Express launched before they did this reclassification. Otherwise I imagine the funding would have disappeared...

Comments

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going to formally complain about this.

Their rational behind making Pluto not a planet also can be applied to Earth, Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune, and I don't see them yanking Planetary status from them. You heard that it was voted on by some 424 members left at the conference, on the last day, out of some over ten thousand members!? What the effing eff?!

Yeah, I'm filing a formal complaint, because that's just screwed.

And BoyZilla will be taught that Pluto is a planet.

[joggingguy.livejournal.com]

This "Pluto is not a planet" thing is one of the dumbing things to come down the pike since I don't know when :-O