Pluto

So what will our very educated mothers serve us without Pluto? I say nix it, or add others, perhaps more deserving.

I detect a hint of Anti American-ism... why is it the only form of racism that's totally fine and acceptable to us Brits? There are loads of American Scientists who have made massive contributions - Davenport, Oppenheimer (although as his invention was the fission bomb that might not be a good example), Franklin, (even Linus Pauling until he started going strange with that vitamin C). And America pays its scientists a decent wage - in this country, a post grad Masters biochemist earns less than an assistant manager at McDonalds and the government wonders why people are turning away from the sciences. I thought I'd have a small rant seeing as everyone else is doing it here at the moment. Dan , you now have to sling a personal insult at me and try to blight my character with obscure references to something I once said to somebody about absolutely nothing I had a right to or knew anything about, four months ago.

I thought Oppenheimer was a German member of Hitlers V1 rocket developing team who defected to the USA after the war.

and I thought Pluto was a dog.

he was.

Yes, very good but but it needs to be a little stronger. Go back to your trainer thread you saggy-lop-titted harpy, if you like the States so much why don't you f**k off over there and take your half-arsed childish poetic rants with you (the ultimate cutting insult is to directly insult somebody's 'art' you see!) You are absolutely right about pluto and politics. You will have to post photographic evidence of yourself in the USA though now. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City - his parents were German immigrants. He studied in Europe but was already back in the USA when WW2 broke out and he began work on the Manhatten project.

so he was...shoulda googled that one first.

I think it was Bill Gates that was a Nazi and defecated. Visit me http://www.radiodenver.org/

Hahahah, that's a great photo. (Yan, he looks nothing like a gerbil.)

Yan did apparently jude "Cacoethes scribendi" http://www.judesworld.net

It was that naughty Yan... http://www.abctales.com/forum/2006/08/14/watching-sky-in-other-rooms

Isn't the pluto issue all about the size? Does that mean Mykle's not really a man?

Ok Jude, I bow to your superior knowledge viz a viz scientists, just don't challenge me on the origins of amazonian rainforest pygmies under wear.

GodA, you are the second person tonight to make me have to clean my keyboard. I shall go to bed chuckling.

I dunno, you wait centuries for a planet to materialise and then...

I'm so pleased for Pluto's mum.

Hmm, I don't know if my mum would be pleased if I was declared a planet... she'd say, "why don't you get a proper job, like a supernova or something?" ~PEPS~ “There is no spoon.”

I suppose Plutons is a bit more realistic (does that mean there are several gods of the Underworld now?) and 12 planets - it is a nice round number. Still, I think it's worth considering that despite all the claims made by various 'experts' we actually know very little about the Universe. It's a bit like a little child running around the back garden assuming that the whole world is similar to the little glimses he gets of life peering through the fence! As a child I used to wonder about these strange people who ran past very fast - they were on bikes but I could only see their heads over the top of the garden wall. We assume, extrapolate and imagine - which is fine if you don't take it too seriously. Dark matter, dark energy, black holes... reminds me of old maps - 'beyond this point there be dragons' :O)

As above so below... much the same with quantum physics, Mykle... Where its practitioners use terms like "spin" and "colour" to describe certain properties of particles... whereas really they know f*ck all about what's going on! (not to put too fine a point on it) ~PEPS~ “There is no spoon.”

Bye-bye Pluto... http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

Bye-bye Pluto... http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

Bye-bye Pluto... http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

Bye-bye Pluto... http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

Bye-bye Pluto... http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

sorry about that - would anyone believe it was my 2 year old? It was.

It's Charon I feel sorry for... Charon, the largest of Pluto's three moons, is no longer under consideration for any special designation. ... At least Pluto gets to be a "dwarf planet"...! ~PEPS~ “There is no spoon.”

He'll always be a planet in my eyes **sniffle** It aint law if it aint laminated!

All these bloody rocks coming into our solar system, getting free heat from our sun, demanding to be upgraded to planets. Tell 'em to bugger off back to their own galaxy I say..........

The sun GAVE BIRTH to Pluto - bugger! How dare you! Do you know how far the NEAREST galaxy IS? Next! nextnextnext..OGH! HED KEEQUAI

No, but I wish you were a resident.

lol

Got to give it to him - despite all the vitriolic crap he spits most of the time - he does occasionally say something a-musing. HED KEEQUAI