Comments on: Excuse me, you’re standing in my pluton… http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: djuggler http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1814 djuggler Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:02:48 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1814 I had to reread the entire series every time he released another book. It got old and I never made it to the end. Seems I stopped somewhere around a suicidal monorail. I had to reread the entire series every time he released another book. It got old and I never made it to the end. Seems I stopped somewhere around a suicidal monorail.

]]> By: mojofilter http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1816 mojofilter Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:45:12 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1816 Due to the new classification there is now a "planet" between mars and jupiter, and that's just nonsense. Anything that relatively close that can't be seen quickly and clearly in the night sky with the unaided eye shouldn't be considered a planet. Therefore I am thinking that a subclassification should probably exist. Eight planets and four something elses. But's whats in a name? Small planet, planet, and big planet would work. Jupiter is 10 times wider than earth, and yet it is called a planet when it is more of a failed star. Earth is five times wider than Pluto and four times wider than the Moon. [wikipedia] The astronomer's primary issue with this is "how big does a lump of rock have to be before it becomes a planet?" Well, I'm just not that concerned, sorry. However, under their new classification system I think Mt. Everest has enough mass to form a planet. I would not consider it or Pluto a planet. Anything smaller than the moon shall henceforth be known to me as a Copernican Moon. Screw the IAU. There are eight planets and four Moopernicans or Moonons, whatever. The ending to the Dark Tower was just as it should have been... It was just like the rest of the book, where afterward I said to myself that I should have seen that coming. Sure it wasn't amazing, but what the hell else did you expect to happen? And wasn't it a turtle's back, not the rose? Due to the new classification there is now a “planet” between mars and jupiter, and that’s just nonsense. Anything that relatively close that can’t be seen quickly and clearly in the night sky with the unaided eye shouldn’t be considered a planet. Therefore I am thinking that a subclassification should probably exist. Eight planets and four something elses. But’s whats in a name? Small planet, planet, and big planet would work. Jupiter is 10 times wider than earth, and yet it is called a planet when it is more of a failed star. Earth is five times wider than Pluto and four times wider than the Moon. [wikipedia]

The astronomer’s primary issue with this is “how big does a lump of rock have to be before it becomes a planet?” Well, I’m just not that concerned, sorry. However, under their new classification system I think Mt. Everest has enough mass to form a planet. I would not consider it or Pluto a planet. Anything smaller than the moon shall henceforth be known to me as a Copernican Moon. Screw the IAU. There are eight planets and four Moopernicans or Moonons, whatever.

The ending to the Dark Tower was just as it should have been… It was just like the rest of the book, where afterward I said to myself that I should have seen that coming. Sure it wasn’t amazing, but what the hell else did you expect to happen? And wasn’t it a turtle’s back, not the rose?

]]> By: Atomictumor http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1817 Atomictumor Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:46:30 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1817 Stick it to em, man. Damn right. Freakin scientist. Stick it to em, man. Damn right.

Freakin scientist.

]]> By: Joel http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1821 Joel Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:32:46 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1821 "Freakin scientist." Hey! I resemble that remark! “Freakin scientist.”

Hey! I resemble that remark!

]]> By: mojofilter http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1928 mojofilter Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:10:40 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1928 <a href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9818-astronomers-lean-towards-eight-planets.html" rel="nofollow">EIGHT PLANETS</a> told you so. neener. alright, they didn't go for moopernicans, yet. EIGHT PLANETS told you so. neener. alright, they didn’t go for moopernicans, yet.

]]> By: AT http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1929 AT Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:15:55 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2006/08/17/excuse-me-youre-standing-in-my-pluton/#comment-1929 Does that mean we can buy pluto now? Do we still have to capitalize it? Does that mean we can buy pluto now? Do we still have to capitalize it?

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