Dear Pluto fetishists,

[gordonzola]

WTF? No one knocked it out of the sky. It's still there. It can still be your favorite interstellar object even if it's not a planet.

As I said in a comment elsewhere, it's like being upset that evolution is (mostly) being taught in school or that Drake's Plate is now taught to be a fraud (which was a big issue when I was in grade school). I am fully willing to let scientists in that field decide on the definition of planets and do not feel like it should be up to popular vote.

It's not like science doesn't have an agenda at times. But it's hard to find one here beyond having a reasonable definition to work with.

Comments

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Talk about jaw-dropping!

[tinymammoth.livejournal.com]

The best part about Piltdown Man is that the hoaxers put a cricket bat in as a supposedly ancient artifact, probably because they were thinking things had gotten out of hand and it was time for the scientists to know it was a forgery. But they blithely classified it as a primitive tool.