Houston We've lost a Planet

[Stuart M]

Looks like Pluto is no longer a planet!

Guess that means they'll be taking Mickey, Minnie and Donald's stars off Hollywood Boulevard - after all they won't be stars any more...

And for classical afficionados, no more modern composers trying to complete Holst's Planet Suite by adding a "Pluto" movement

[killingtime]

Looks like Pluto is no longer a planet!

Yippie! I'm actually really pleased that Pluto was declassified as a planet rather than gaining an ever increasing number of planets in our system.

[ducasi]

Yippie! I'm actually really pleased that Pluto was declassified as a planet rather than gaining an ever increasing number of planets in our system.

[Stuart M]

Yippie! I'm actually really pleased that Pluto was declassified as a planet rather than gaining an ever increasing number of planets in our system.

Oh, I don't know - at one level I'm disappointed. I was looking forward to astrologers having to assign roles to the thousands of large Kuiper Belt objects:

"Sagittarius: well, with Quaoar set to move into your solar house next month - for the next 70 years - it looks like you're in for a miserable rest of your life, basically. But there'll be sex in it somewhere. So best get out there and make that big financial decision you've been mulling over recently. And a mysterious stranger is about to enter your life to make things sexy, sexy sexy!"

[Trousers]

I heard when they were discussing this on the radio last week that there were at least another three distant object larger than pluto that were obiting the Sun distantly.

So you may yet get the extra planet back.

[Warwick]

I heard when they were discussing this on the radio last week that there were at least another three distant object larger than pluto that were obiting the Sun distantly.

So you may yet get the extra planet back.

No, the big meeting in Prague decided against the proposal that would have added in the extras. As telescopes become ever larger there would have been a growing number of *new* planets and Holst is dead so we can't get the Planet suite enlarged to match.

[Dreadful Scathe]

"Sagittarius: well, with Quaoar set to move into your solar house next month - for the next 70 years - it looks like you're in for a miserable rest of your life, basically. But there'll be sex in it somewhere. So best get out there and make that big financial decision you've been mulling over recently. And a mysterious stranger is about to enter your life to make things sexy, sexy sexy!"

Wow! Thats me...really. Wow. I broke a mirror too, will that affect Uranus ?

[Dance Demon]

Wow. I broke a mirror too, will that affect Uranus ?

Not mine...I don't look at it in the mirror, it makes it look too big

[Minnie M]

........Guess that means they'll be taking Mickey, Minnie and Donald's stars off Hollywood Boulevard - after all they won't be stars any more..........

[Stuart M]

Never mind Minnie, they're all shallow in Hollywood anyway. I mean look how long my movie career lasted

I fought for months to make sure they never used the full working title - people might have got the wrong idea...

[Beowulf]

Looks like Pluto is no longer a planet!

My Neighbours are going to be so P!ssed

mind you never liked the place anyway.. the dance clubs were terrible.. no atmosphere

[Minnie M]

Never mind Minnie, they're all shallow in Hollywood anyway. I mean look how long my movie career lasted

I fought for months to make sure they never used the full working title - people might have got the wrong idea...

(bittersweet) poor you
(taken from the link above)

Tagline: Imagine if Your Toaster Went on a Journey of its Own!

Plot Summary: When a young boy and his family go on holiday, their household appliances, led by the toaster, think they've been abandoned

[Barry Shnikov]

"Tagline: Imagine if Your Toaster Went on a Journey of its Own! "

...I don't know about that, but it likes trying to send bread into orbit.

[El Salsero Gringo]

Hold your horses, everyone, it ain't over (we need a fat lady to sing, quick). According to the BBC website, "Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to 'Honk if Pluto is still a planet' have gone on sale over the internet".

The story is here, but I confess I am still failing to muster the emotional energy to care.

[Stuart M]

Hold your horses, everyone, it ain't over (we need a fat lady to sing, quick). According to the BBC website, "[SIZE=2]Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to 'Honk if Pluto is still a planet' have gone on sale over the internet".

Yes - another minor belief system in it's death throes.

Hilariously, regarding something I said earlier, some astrologers really are trying to ascribe values to the TNOs.

[Dreadful Scathe]

The story is here, but I confess I am still failing to muster the emotional energy to care.
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Im not even going to click on your link.....zzzzz

[killingtime]

Hold your horses, everyone, it ain't over (we need a fat lady to sing, quick). According to the BBC website, "[SIZE=2]Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to 'Honk if Pluto is still a planet' have gone on sale over the internet".

Well the team in NASA who just sent a probe to Pluto are probably a bit miffed. Though changing the way we describe it doesn't actually change the object and it is still of scientific interest so I fail to see why it makes that much of a difference.

[David Bailey]

YHilariously, regarding something I said earlier, some astrologers really are trying to ascribe values to the TNOs.

- I especially loved this quote:

Western astrology is the only astrological system in the world which accepts new planets into its cosmology. All the others are locked in the ancient and sometimes Medieval schema of the seven ancient planets. These ossified systems will rapidly be left behind by the rapid changes exploding around us.

Some things are just beyond satire...

[stewart38]

When I grew up jupiter had 12 moons and Saturn 5

I think some people will have to re write the quiz pub books

[killingtime]

Some things are just beyond satire...

I find it strange that they have to take those things into account as, surely, those objects already affect us whether we know about them or not. Or by knowing about them do you increase the accuracy of your reading?