Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.physics > #890901

Re: The Pluto Murder

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > The Pluto Murder: IAU motive...jealously.
> >
> > Today was the last day of the International Astronomical Union meeting
> > in Prague, and the final item on the agenda at the end of two weeks’
> > worth of discussion was a vote on what to do with Pluto. Everyone’s
> > favorite ice ball was in imminent danger of being cast out of the
> > pantheon of planets by the vote of astronomers assembled half a world
> > away, and whatever happened would be big news around the globe.
> > I like planets, but I didn’t care enough about Pluto to get up at 4:30
> > a.m. But this Pluto vote mattered enough for me to drag myself out of
> > bed that morning. For me that vote had nothing to do with the ninth
> > planet; it was all about the tenth.
> > And I cared a lot about that tenth planet, because
> > eighteen months earlier, I had discovered it, a ball of ice and rock
> > slightly larger than Pluto circling the sun every 580 years. I had been
> > scanning the skies night after night looking for such a thing for most
> > of a decade, and then, one morning, there it finally was.
> 
> If Pluto was to be a planet, then so too Xena/Eris. If Pluto was to be
> kicked out, Xena/Eris would get the same boot. It was worth waking up
> early to find out the answer.
> 
> IAU thinks, therefore You are. You think what the cabal tells you to
> think...
> 

When a person
who is not a
member of the IAU
discovers a
tenth planet...
all HELL 
breaks loose!

It means all the 
IAU members are a
worthless piece
of garbage.

good fer nuthin

useless

irrevalent.



IAU thinks, therefore You are...


garbage.






-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

Back to sci.physics | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

The Pluto Murder The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-01-25 10:30 -0800
  Re: The Pluto Murder The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-01-25 10:35 -0800
    Re: The Pluto Murder The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-01-25 11:32 -0800
      Re: The Pluto Murder The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-01-25 12:20 -0800
        Re: The Pluto Murder The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-01-25 13:11 -0800

csiph-web