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12/18/2014 4:56:02 AM
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Neil Degrasse Tyson said pluto is a planet and he's the one who got it bumped in the first place
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http://m.theweek.com/article/index/261042/why-neil-degrasse-tyson-is-a-philistine
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Thanks for this! Everyone crows about how brilliant they think this guy is, but he is a pseudoscience hack with a mile-wide agenda. Science and activism are strange bedfellows, and this guy, along with the annoying Michio Kaku are merely activists with a science background.
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He was not responsible for the decision. He was a supporter but not the reason for its demotion. A panel voted and decided it was not fitting the definition of a planet so it was demoted.
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[quote]He was not responsible for the decision. He was a supporter but not the reason for its demotion. A panel voted and decided it was not fitting the definition of a planet so it was demoted.[/quote] Yea in 2006 not several thousand years in the future.
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Editado por DaoFerret: 12/18/2014 4:00:57 PM[quote]He was not responsible for the decision. He was a supporter but not the reason for its demotion. A panel voted and decided it was not fitting the definition of a planet so it was demoted.[/quote] After carefully waiting till its discover was dead. Would have caused too much scandal otherwise (and no one would have wanted to do it then). Supposedly everyone knew it was coming though. (Or so my astronomy and planetary physics professor friends have told me) (edit: fixing typos)
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Oh yeah. It was inevitable. The more we discover the more mistakes we realized we made. Its the way in science, especially in planetary science. It's a good thing. It means that as a species we are progressing. It's unfortunate that people take it as a right or wrong. It's just learning. If they would educate themselves about the SS and planets and debris and orbits and sizes they too would realize Pluto isn't a planet.
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Meh. I just like being able to say "back in MY day we had to walk to school uphill both ways, the telephone had a really long extension cord and was shared with everyone else in the house, we wrote MAIL, not E-MAIL and we had NINE planets! Now get off my lawn and help me find my meds!" :p
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you missed "in 4 feet of snow"... ahem (clears throat): "back in my day, we had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill, BOTH WAYS, in 4 feet of snow, and shoes hadn't been invented yet. There was only 1 phone per house, and it had a very long cord attaching it to the wall, and text messages didn't exist. No, the damn phone did not have a Bungie App. It had NO APPS. It had NO SCREEN." On a similar note, back in those days, I recall playing an atari 7800. and actually made the power brick catch fire from over heating (that part is a true story).
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"7800"!? ha! I remember having a 2600 (and a Matel Intellivision that was a hand-me-down) "Text messages" existed. We wrote them on the memo pad attached to the refrigerator. :p Very nice about the power brick. :)
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I also had the 2600, but the 7800 was the one I caught on fire haha
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Lol Add: And change the television channel By hand, rewind movies, and play games that only had 2 buttons and a D-pad (or one stick and a red button depending on how old you are).
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Editado por DaoFerret: 12/18/2014 4:02:25 PMOooo I like that (and as someone who remembers Pong in bars at the age of 6-8 I safely fall into the 'old as the hills' in video game terms :D) "Back in MY day video games had ONE joystick and ONE button ... and we were grateful we had a stick with TWO axis of movement ... some of us only had a dial!"
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I'm an 80s kid, but I still had some exposure to Atari. I forgot to add: And there places where you could pay .25$ to play a game for 1 life. You'd spend $20 and go home with nothing but memories... *sigh* RIP Arcades :/
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By videogame terms, we are dinosaurs lol
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[quote]By videogame terms, we are dinosaurs lol[/quote] I'm starting to think Dinosaurs might be too new. I'd say Trilobites, but then I'll think of the 7th Guest, and the next thing you know I won't sleep so well tonight ... dang ... too late.
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Pre-trilobites, in gaming terms, we're basically the first Amoeba.
