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View Poll Results: Is Pluto the 9th planet?
You bet your ass it is 10 40.00%
Nah! Its just a hunk of rock 2 8.00%
I couldn't give a sh... 2 8.00%
I think the Swiss need to discuss it first. 5 20.00%
Pluto is a dog 6 24.00%
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Old 14.09.2019, 12:22
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It's Official!

At least according to the head of NASA.
Pluto is a Planet!
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...to-is-a-planet
Do you agree?
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Re: It's Official!

Pluto is a dog.
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Old 14.09.2019, 13:04
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Re: It's Official!

Yay! A new poll!
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Yay! A new poll!
So place your vote!
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Re: It's Official!

Has anyone asked Jupiter?

Funny how Nasa think they run the show.
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Re: It's Official!

Honestly, it never made it off my list of planets. I denied the declassification as it seemed so discriminatory.

Is NASA going to publish a ruling about the ring around Uranus next?
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Old 14.09.2019, 16:00
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Pluto is a dog.
Yes, Pluto is definitey a dog!
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Old 14.09.2019, 16:19
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Yes, Pluto is definitey a dog!
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Old 15.09.2019, 10:03
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Hey! This is my poll! You could of at least asked.
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Re: It's Official!

In my opinion, NASA can say whatever it wants. The "new" planet definition (it's well over 10 years old by now) came from the IAU, the International Astronomical Union, which itself is a part of the International Science Council (headquartered in France). The US is only 1 of the 100+ members of the IAU.

Edit: I read the article, and then about the NASA administrator that said "Just so you know, in my view, Pluto is a planet. And you can write that the NASA Administrator declared Pluto a planet once again. I’m sticking by that, it’s the way I learned it, and I’m committed to it”. This man holds a business degree, has 0 scientific education, and used to be a climate-change denier (apparently he recently changed his stance). So I guess it's a bit of a facetious poll?
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Hey! This is my poll! You could of at least asked.
Sorry, the masses seemed to be voting on-thread so I thought I could at least offer that option. I didn't include an option about cats...
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Re: It's Official!

Forget Pluto!

Now they also admit that UFOs actually exist.

https://youtu.be/3RlbqOl_4NA

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us...ootage-reveals



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We’d be pretentious to believe we’re the only planet with living organisms wouldn’t we?
I don’t believe they’d want to visit us though.
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It's fine. They all live too far away to visit.
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Old 22.09.2019, 11:24
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They don't want to visit, they might catch our corporate insanity ... :/
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Falsely qualified as a planet in the beginning and they corrected that later.

They can't come up with a classification that would make Pluto a planet while excluding all other objects in the Kuiper belt like Eris and the moons in our system.

So if Pluto is a planet we should also recognise other objects as planets which we don't so Pluto ain't a planet and never has been.
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