Why oh why.

Are we looking for a ninth planet

We already had one ... Pluto.

Fuck you Neil Degrasse Tyson.

What a stupid name anyway, arsehole.

Pluto must meet three requirements to be a planet:

1) Orbiting around the Sun.
2) Have sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape).
3) Have "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit.

Pluto meets first and second requirements, losing out on the third

Those criteria were somewhat arbitrarily arrived at by 0.000140031% of the World's population so I think it's safe to ignore them.

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2) Have sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape).

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I can totally see you using words like this in your daily life. This is definitely not copy & pasted. :noes:

I totally blame the Disney Corporation for turning the name Pluto into a laughing stock.

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I totally blame the Disney Corporation for turning the name Pluto into a laughing stock.

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Excellent point, thank goodness the Earth isn't called Goofy or we would have nowhere to live.

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I totally blame the Disney Corporation for turning the name Pluto into a laughing stock.

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Excellent point, thank goodness the Earth isn't called Goofy or we would have nowhere to live.

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There was already an Asian country named after a couple of cats, but they escaped their fate by changing their international name. My point is that it's not such a frightening prospect. Jack Handy taught me these things.

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I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a million ants just to aim a gun at me, let alone fire it. And you know what I'm doing while they're aiming it at me? I just sort of slip off to the side, and then suddenly run up and kick the gun out of their hands.

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There was already an Asian country named after a couple of cats, but they escaped their fate by changing their international name. My point is that it's not such a frightening prospect. Jack Handy taught me these things.

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Fluffy and Claws.

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2) Have sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape).

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I can totally see you using words like this in your daily life. This is definitely not copy & pasted. :noes:

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actually, as a scientist, I use these terms every day. Here's another one:

Red anthocyanin, it keeps the sap flowing for longer as the temperatures plummets, so the trees can hold on to their leaves and extract every last drop of sugar. That's why if you go to New England's forests in october you'll find a wonderland of colour.

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

I can totally see you using words like this in your daily life. This is definitely not copy & pasted. :noes:

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actually, as a scientist, I use these terms every day. Here's another one:

Red anthocyanin, it keeps the sap flowing for longer as the temperatures plummets, so the trees can hold on to their leaves and extract every last drop of sugar. That's way if you go to New England's forests in october you'll find a wonderland of colour.

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What kind of scientist are you?

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