Tweets for Today

• 09:28 This ad here has "James Randi" in big letters. Next line: "Did this name get your attention?" (It's for a "Skeptics Society" being started.) #
• 09:57 Y'know what's annoying about Windows XP? Every time you boot a new application, everything grinds until it finishes. MacOSX doesn't do that. #
• 10:03 Correction: grinds until the new app boots, and then -keeps- grinding until it feels like stopping. *shakes fist impotently* #
• 16:02 While back, saw Google Blogs mention "20% projects" - seems they spend 80% of their time on assignments and 20% on anything. I like that. #
• 20:07 @kirabug ...you've been reading my Twitter, haven't you? :P #
• 20:26 Curse it, iTunes, are you crossfading on me?! *whacks at prefs* #
• 21:16 Wait - these last few songs weren't crossfaded, were they? *thinks* Dagnabbit, it's the _CD_ _itself_ that's been screwed with! The cads! #
• 22:27 @kirabug Ooh, what kind of car? #

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Writer's Block: Planet's Rights

How do you feel about Pluto's recent demotion? Should it still be a planet? View other answers

2006 is still "recent"?

Anyway: It most certainly should not be. Pluto is hardly unique in size, so any definition including it that is not wholly gerrymandered to avoid problems would include dozens if not thousands of other objects in mutually-intersecting orbits besides Pluto.

In fact, I could abridge my argument to one point - including dwarf planets like Pluto would mean a solar system that looks like this picture, courtesy Mike Brown, Caltech:



Any questions?