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[Dude Man]

<a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5282440.stm?ls' target='_blank'>Read plz.</a>

But yeah, apparently Pluto lost its status as a planet. What do you guys think?

[DarkElite]

No way. I heard that they had only been arguing over it, and that alot of people wanted to take it out because of its small stature.  But I was told that they decided to keep it as a planet, but, by the new "planet standards", tmany other objects would have to be included as planets, including some massive asteriod.

My source wasn't very reliable though... it was Stephen Colbert after all...  Laughing

[Dude Man]

Yeah, they also announced it on the Late Show with David Letterman. He said it was similar to what happened on <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_View' target='_blank'>The View</a>. lol @ star jones.

[D. Ein]

OH NOES!!1

Seriously, who cares? So, now we got 8 planets instead of 9. Big deal. Chances are that the world's gonna end for mankind before we settle the other planets.

[Dude Man]

I know. It's just interesting. Who knows what we could find next?

Maybe Jupiter will loose it's status as a planet because it's to...big.[/dumbjoke]

[Xorlak]

Makes sense, and I sort of expected this to happen eventually.  The problem was of course that if Pluto is a planet, then a whole bunch of other wierd things recently discovered out there would have to be classified as planets too.

Now we can all tell our grankids, "When I was your age we had NINE planets!"  (Heh...)

[Burton_projects]

I heard they thought it was a big clump of ice and rock.

[Cuzit]

Now we can all tell our grankids, "When I was your age we had NINE planets!"  (Heh...)

By the time I have grandkids, they'll probably find another planet....

The whole Pluto things been debating since its discovery, I knew it would be demoted one day...  :unsure:

[Dude Man]

Now we can all tell our grankids, "When I was your age we had NINE planets!"  (Heh...)

I've told quite a few people that joke now. Xorlak pwnz.

[DarkElite]

Lol. This sucks. I liked Pluto...  Sad

[Jenia]

Fowiffo does too. Where in hell am I supposed to find topaz crystals now? I never saw any purples on earth...It's inaccessable anyway!

So what? Demotion is part of service in the solar system bridgade.
Heck, saturn or jupiter could be demoted for not having a solid surface!
Probably not anytime soon, though.

[Burton_projects]

Heck soon everything will become demoted for being blown to peices by the sun..

[Dude Man]

When the sun blows up it will take several years for a few planets to get affected by the impact. I think the moon titian will be able to have life for a few thousand years after the sun blows up. (Unless my science teacher is wrong)

[Burton_projects]

doesen'tmean thigs wont blow up there are plenty of other stars.

[D. Ein]

When the sun blows up it will take several years for a few planets to get affected by the impact. I think the moon titian will be able to have life for a few thousand years after the sun blows up. (Unless my science teacher is wrong)

No, you see, before the sun blows up, it swells up to like five times its size. It will, in fact, consume four nearest planetary bodies - and guess what, earth's one of them. When the sun blows up, we aren't going to be around to see it. However, you shouldn't worry. It has another 5 billion years or so before it goes KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM