Comments on: #1629 – Last (10 Comments)

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:42:55 +0000

I’m still getting over the loss of the Brontosaurus…

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:31:16 +0000

I recently watched the magic school bus episode where they go to the planets with my daughter. I may have shed a single tear when they got to pluto.

By: Greyryder

Greyryder — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:50:00 +0000

Pluto and Charon are a binary planet system. They are collectively known as Tyson’s Folly.

Yeah, I went there….

By: Mr. Meval

Mr. Meval — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:56:28 +0000

Consensual science is pretty disgusting. At one point a bunch of people who might have been scientists get together and say it is a planet and then a bunch of people who may be scientists challenge the defenseless dead and say with pompous arrogance that it is not a planet and how dare you question them. At that point I’d remove all government funding of science and let them gag on ramen and cheap mac-n-cheese to get funding.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:47:35 +0000

Nostalgia.

By: Erior

Erior — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:14:01 +0000

Well, it was either lose Pluto, or get a whole bunch of new planets, incluiding one between Mars and Jupiter (and that very object IS what the concept of asteroid was first used for). Pluto’s sacrifice was not in vain, otherwise asteroids and planets would overlap, and now what a planet is is more defined, but, all in all, it is just a concept. Pluto remains at the outskirts of our Solar System, spinning around a midpoint between it and Charon, with some smaller objects around it. Like always.

By: kingklash

kingklash — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:51:04 +0000

Forget Pluto, what the hell is Goofy?!

By: Anon_omis

Anon_omis — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:09:11 +0000

Why do people have such a problem with Pluto nont being a planet? I mean it is still a ‘dwarf planet’ which I think is cool. It adds another classification that makes it interesting. Besides, people do realize that pluto doesn’t even know about it not being a planet, right? It’s not a living thing.

By: Pyro

Pyro — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:51:22 +0000

Pluto was always sort of like the period at the end of a sentence. <- just like that one. It's a tiny thing, no one really notices it's there, and it doesn't make much difference, but when it's missing, things just lack a sense of completion

By: RoguesAndGhosts

RoguesAndGhosts — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:35:12 +0000

Yeah, I think it’s quite sad that they “removed” Pluto from being one of the real planets. There’s something that just doesn’t feel right if it ends right after those four big planets… I think I would get pretty confused if I had looked at a picture of the solar system as a kid if Pluto would be missing from it…

Four small planets, big brown planet, big orange planet with hula hoop, kinda big teal planet, kinda big blue planet… The end?!
I think it just feels better if it ends with one more, smaller planet, like when Pluto was still included.