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2006-08-27 Science & Technology

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-27 08:36|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 nice headline,
'course I'd expect thatr from a Spemble!

Posted by Uncle Ben">Uncle Ben 2006-08-27 09:22|| 2006-08-27 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I refuse to conform! I still call Pluto a planet, and I pronounce Uranus the dirty way

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-27 10:14|| 2006-08-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Was Planet when I was born it will stay a planet thank you.

Posted by djohn66 2006-08-27 11:53|| 2006-08-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Kind of sounds like the IAU needs something to do . . . or maybe just some attention.

Posted by ex-lib 2006-08-27 12:00|| 2006-08-27 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 They were all good and happy with the old situation until some new upstart finds something like Pluto and gives it the name 'Xena' and its moon 'Gabriel'. Talk about a bunch of pseudo important twits who can take plenty of tax money to justify their existance. No sense of humor, I guess, when no one pays any attention to you except when you jump up and down claiming the sky is falling [even if it is, we just can't do anything about it at the moment].

Posted by Anguting Shinenter1301 2006-08-27 12:45|| 2006-08-27 12:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Check out "peoplescube" for hilarious Pluto stuff...

Posted by borgboy 2006-08-27 13:21|| 2006-08-27 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Think about it. What other probability in the entire universe that some astronomy geeks might get to meet Lucy Lawless, in person?

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-27 14:29|| 2006-08-27 14:29|| Front Page Top

#8 It does make a mystery of that old mnemonic; now it's "My very earnest mother just served us nine..."

Future generations will be much perplexed

Posted by Vegas Matt 2006-08-27 14:37|| 2006-08-27 14:37|| Front Page Top

#9 I pronounce Uranus the dirty way

According to 'Futurama', in 2620, Uranus is renamed to Urectum to put an end to this sort of humor.

Posted by SteveS 2006-08-27 16:23|| 2006-08-27 16:23|| Front Page Top

#10 **little know fact over-shadowed by Pluto's reduction in status.

According to the senior scientists at International Astronomical Union the 7th planet will no longer be referred to in a personalized manner, they said that henceforth the 7th planet will referred to as Ring Around The Anus instead of Your-Anus.

Baadaa boom

Posted by Bubblegum Angager5204 2006-08-27 16:58|| 2006-08-27 16:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Clyde Tombaugh is spinning in his grave.

There's a pretty good story in, I believe, Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, entitled "The Tombaugh Station" (it's ancient - you'll have to Google to find it if it's available).

Uh...if anyone is wondering - Clyde Tombaugh is the guy who discovered Pluto.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-08-27 20:13|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-08-27 20:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Okay, I'll bite, isn't a "dwarf/minor planet" technically still a planet??? And iff "planets" are supposed to be named after Gods/Goddesses, LUCY LAWLESS' bikini specs aside IS NOT "ZENA" NOT A NAME OF A GODDESS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-08-27 23:20|| 2006-08-27 23:20|| Front Page Top

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