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The celestial fraud
National Post ^
| 2006-08-18
| (editorial page)
Posted on 08/18/2006 4:38:41 AM PDT by Clive
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:38:41 AM PDT
by
Clive
To: Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:39:03 AM PDT
by
Clive
To: Clive
The editors at the Post are chagrined that Pluto has clout.
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:42:08 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Clive
Having originally immigrated from PLANET Pluto, a spokesperson for john kerry stated that he is highly offended by this racist article! ;-)
LLS
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:43:20 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
To: Clive
We need a fence to protect our way of life.
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:45:50 AM PDT
by
DaGman
To: Clive
As usual, Pluto calls the shots at the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Just another plutocracy, nothing to see here.
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:46:05 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Islam delenda est)
To: Clive; Xenalyte
...the committee has even created a new class of planets called "plutons" -- Pluto-like objects that conform to Pluto's deviant ways. This means that when the committee's proposal is passed by the IAU general assembly next week, as widely expected, the once-exclusive club known as our solar system will be a come-one-come-all freakfest that includes not only Pluto, but such no-names as "Charon," Ceres and "2003 UB313." The latter goes by the stage name "Xena." We once named planets after Gods. Now, we're naming them after sleazy TV characters. Looks like someone has a chip (or pluton) on his shoulder.
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:46:13 AM PDT
by
shezza
(God bless our military heroes)
To: Clive
Pluto doesn't even have a normal orbit! It is heavily tilted
Please don't tell me it leans left !
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:47:45 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: 1rudeboy
Pluto Rules!
To: Clive
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:52:43 AM PDT
by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: RadioAstronomer
Your comments would be appreciated.
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posted on
08/18/2006 4:53:02 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
To: LibLieSlayer
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:02:02 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Clive
Currently they're operating with the idea that planets are round and are proposing keeping the eight main planets as the core planets and also including some trans-Neptunian planets. Under this arrangement Charon, Pluto's moon, is considered a trans-Neptunian planet because Charon and Pluto are essentially orbiting each other--their center of mass is outside the surface of Pluto and they both orbit this point.
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:05:28 AM PDT
by
ahayes
("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
To: Clive
This is a sham foisted upon a public by scientists that are unwilling to admit Pluto was mis-classified as a planet decades ago.
If a change is made, it should be to REMOVE Pluto from the listing of planets and add it to either the comets or the asteroids category.
Of course, removing Pluto would be an admission by science that it is wrong....so they will compound the error by bastardizing the definition of planet.
Any global warming/evolution fans out there want to say scienstists are unbiased?
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:14:56 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
To: Clive
As usual, Pluto calls the shots at the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Why even convene IAU meetings at all? Why not just let it be resolved that Pluto gets whatever it wants and everyone goes home?It sounds to me like somebody's way too tolerant of a misbehaving dog. Maybe some obedience school is called for.
Mark
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:28:51 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Clive
This new planet definition, pardon the pun, stinks to high Heaven. A new class of planetoid, fine. Honorary planet status for Pluto given it's history, but no more new planets, alright. But any freakin' snowball that managed to get itself rounded out? Gimme a break, we'll have hundreds if not thousands of "planets" by the time the cosmic dust clears.
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:33:33 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Pluto, the dog, was named after the newly discovered planet, I read somewhere.
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:36:38 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: Clive
Clyde Tombaugh Forever! :D
To: Clive
Lotsa great tagline fodder there.
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posted on
08/18/2006 5:47:52 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Pluto's holding the leash, and Mickey's wearing the collar)
To: Clive
The term "pluton" is already in use in geology to mean an intrusive body of molten rock which cools and crystallizes at depth rather than erupting. Maybe they should call the new class of solar-system objects "pluted pups," after the term used for Pluto the dog in an early Mad comics Disney parody.
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