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OrgoneConclusion
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Pluto being reclassified
#14555968 - 06/03/11 02:48 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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A few years back when Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet, many of the members of the International Union of Astronomers received scalding hate mail.
With all of my great intellect and keen insight into human psychology and idiosyncracies, this silly anger escapes my ability to puzzle it out.
'Splain it to me in words a third grader could understand.
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I don't understand it myself. The local talk radio station around my parts had plenty of people bitching about it as well. I'm not sure why, they simply stated their disagreement, though provided no reasons for such, and bitched awhile.
I would guess the objection results from perhaps some dissonance between being forced to memorize things like that in school only to later have it acknowledged that the list is largely arbitrary and not particularly of any importance. Perhaps this in turn calls into question most of their schooling with its focus on memorizing facts and a diploma that could be replaced in large by a few sheets of paper with said lists recorded on them.
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1983
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: dwarf planet
They prefer to be called "little" planets.
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Its all about blues clues man! Now how am I going to teach my future kids the planets when they can't hear blue and that dude singing well the suns a hot star... mercury's hot too... CD Honestly I have no clue
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Pluto being reclassified [Re: 1983]
#14556021 - 06/03/11 02:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
1983 said:
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OrgoneConclusion said: dwarf planet
They prefer to be called "little" planets.
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bait_
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it because now... my very excellent mother just served us nothing
instead of... my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Pluto being reclassified [Re: bait_]
#14556042 - 06/03/11 03:04 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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You are Italian?
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bait_
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nope just how i learned to memorize the planets in grade school
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Re: Pluto being reclassified [Re: bait_]
#14556067 - 06/03/11 03:09 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I am so proud of you! Such an amazing accomplishment.
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I would say a lot of people just struggle with changes that they once thought were constant... Even though in my opinion nothing is ever constant.
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Re: Pluto being reclassified [Re: don_vedo]
#14558565 - 06/04/11 01:01 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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How did we ever get past the idea that the earth was flat...
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The shroomy 1 said: How did we ever get past the idea that the earth was flat... 
No kidding took a damn long time.
-------------------- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us all. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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