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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -7/+65Oddly AOL user 134340 googled uranus. Coincidence? I think not.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+58"I am not a number! I am a planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111"
- furiouszebra, on 10/12/2007, -7/+54We got the joke, but it was stupid
- roguescout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36The scientists should just give it a weird symbol and refer to it as, "The planet formerly known as Pluto".
And then tell everyone it is made of purple velvet. - Harabeck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35The name is added, it's not a replacement. Other dwarf planets have a similar naming scheme. So, this name is only used when discussing Pluto along with other dwarf planets.
- manicdvln, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25George Bush doesn't care about dwarf planets.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27"i'm guessing people didn't get the joke.
There are a lot of Apple stories right now so I don't think many of the people here play games. ;)"
You're right. We're just a bunch of business guys and secretaries at this website. We just happen to be very interested in technology.
(Gob) COME ON! (/Gob) As FuriousZebra said, it wasn't funny. - f0dder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23It's ok.. just think of it as a pointer to pluto.
*134340 == pluto - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19>>>"Well, it's not like the residents of Pluto fought in it's favor though."
Indeed. If they're not going to bother to take an interest in local affairs, then that's their own lookout. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Time to go pour out a 40 for my dead homie Pluto.
- burkay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18As far as I am concerned, "a far far away piece of rock" does the job.
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Well, it's not like the residents of Pluto fought in it's favor though.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Anybody that thinks the president is the most powerful man in the country is wrong. A team of people that can give and take away a planet's "planetary status" holds a pretty sweet hand.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16...because pluto is a concious being capable of caring for what we think about it.
- Djerrid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15My very excellent mother just sent us nine 134340s?
- popltree2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14If there was an elementry school class that was learning about the planets the day before Pluto got demoted, the teacher would have to come back the next day and say something like "Yeah, you remember that ninth planet I was talking about yesterday?..."
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Agreed - 'sending a probe to visit 134340' isn't really going to catch the public imagination in the same way as 'landing on Pluto'.
- misteral, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Because Pluto belonged to the United States? Your statement makes no sense.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Yes, and gravity was discovered by an Englishman. Hopefully England doesn't get upset with us and take it away..
- CravenTwain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12OK - so now we all know Pluto is a dwarf planet. The question remains; what the hell is Goofy?
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It's still named Pluto, they can't repossess the name. Known as a number though, kinda sad really.
- NICU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yes, always an automatic negative digg for using the word 'cos'
- dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Even so, this is starting to draw a deep divison between the professional astronomy group and the public as a whole. While from one side, I can understand the need to keep astronomy removed from the whim of the public, the greater problem is they're losing popular support, which inevitably cuts into funding.
I still don't agree with the overall logic they've been using, and the new rules were far more vauge than the revisions originally proposed. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9They prefer to be called "little people" these days.
- Fungo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Pluto: "Who are you?"
IAU: "The new number 2."
Pluto: "Who is number 1?"
IAU: "You are number 134340."
Pluto: "I am not a number! I am a real planet!"
IAU: "Hahahahahahahahahaha!" - Henaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Those scientists are *****. Sooner or later the aliens on Pluto are going to find out and they will be pissed. Then next thing you know we will all be destroyed by aliens.
- overlordmead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dear America,
Your contribution to the planets of the solar system sucked. Please get over it.
Signed,
The rest of the world that doesn't give a flying *****. - Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man... kick a former planet while it's down. How cruel.
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5According to Ron "Boogymonster" Gerber, from "Crap from the Past" this is:
"A bit like me telling my little brother that he's too small to be my brother. 'Sorry, but you're no longer a 'sibling', you've been reclassified as a 'Family pet.'" - neoncricket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They killed Pluto! You bastards!
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dear "me",
I feel offended by you raising my companion to the skies with your pretty words, and it angers me that so little attention is given to us other little planets looking for a goal in our celestial lives. What is so special with Pluto? Pluto's fame has thankfully finally come to an end as a classic planet, and I am happy to see Pluto, who after all is a companion to all of us of his same size, finally being seen as having a problematic classification by the science community!
Rumor is that I am next to be reclassified as a dwarf planet from having been a trans-Neptunian object, and it is not a fun wait, I can tell you! I am sure me and my little friends won't hear the end of Pluto's underserved fame the past 70 years from Tombaugh's stupid classification mistake in the 30's when they had no clue of astronomy anyway. Pah!
Sincerely,
90377 Sedna - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hope you mean "little people with really big bones" :-p
- television, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll always call it pluto :D
- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Dwarf planets = Really fat little people
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Even so, this is starting to draw a deep divison between the professional astronomy group and the public as a whole."
This could've been said at any time in the past when new discoveries were made, and scientists had to relearn what they earlier thought was true, and worse, had tought the wide public.
Rest assured this "division" will be closed soon enough, as it's only temporary while the public has adjusted to the new science that it has had to do for hundreds of years. The division was much greater when science clashed with church and its followers as for if Earth was in the center of the universe.
This is details, small details, in comparison, and will easily be overcome.
Pluto is not even losing its name Pluto -- it is gaining a new dwarf planet code name that the public will likely neither know or have to care about, as little as they have to care about the numbers of the asteroids in the asteroid belt. - Allometry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In light of this news, perhaps Disney will rename one of the greatest duo's of all time...
From 1933:
"Mickey's Pal Pluto" to "Mickey's Pal 134340" - 2L84ME, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"i'm guessing people didn't get the joke.
There are a lot of Apple stories right now so I don't think many of the people here play games. ;)"
Oh yeah, I totally see the connection! - ThisIsJames, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so just because it gets pushed around its not a planet?
I know a bunch of people who get pushed out of their "orbits," but they don't get called 134340! - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I heard that Pluto's a dirty little slut.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It'll be known as "134340 Pluto" among scientists, not "134340", and in public it will be known as "Pluto". Compare to "1 Ceres". The article title here is a bit confusing. It hasn't lost its "Pluto" component even among scientists, it has gained a new dwarf planet number component due to some useful standards.
The Wikipedia article has been updated already to reflect what I'm talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto - epheterson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll miss you pluto.. to me, there will always be nine planets.
- Lexomatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heck, even astronomers will refer to it as just 'Pluto'. People grew up being told Pluto was the ninth planet. You can not just come along and say 'hey, no more'. You'll have to wait a good 50 years before you get to a generation of astronomers (and the general population) that won't see Pluto as a planet.
- oneiroi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dear Pluto,
First they take away your planet status, then they try to make you just another rock in the sky, a number in the system. You'll always be more than that to me. You'll always be the planet that evolves erratically around my heart...at a far distance.
Sincerely,
me - halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"You'll have to wait a good 50 years before you get to a generation of astronomers (and the general population) that won't see Pluto as a planet. "
weve already had 70 years of the astronomer part - DiamondGtrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@roguescout - Someone beat you to it: http://www.cafepress.com/sgwac.75653292
- aer0sense, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I will always call it Pluto...
- Phoenixfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh man! I fell asleep the day I was supposed to file for a patent on renaming well known planets that have been demoted to lowly numbers. I could have made a killing with that one. :)
- nitroskanker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yay!
- pr3998, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Plutush, you're always a star to me !!
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