If I hear one more thing about Pluto … well, never mind that. “Astro”-physicists have officially replaced mathematicians as the favorite toilet monkeys of real scientists everywhere. Why? Because when something is proven in math, it stays proven. Same way with physics. It doesn’t matter how many weeks the International Astronomers Union meets that apple still fell on Isaac Newton’s head and it will fall on yours too. Committee meetings and compromises can’t change gravity.
Take this quote from Becky Lomax when asked by her kids why there are only 8 planets now; “We just did the solar system last year,” she said. “I guess we have to revisit it.”
No, the last thing you should do is revisit anything. You are just encouraging these numbskulls. Even 6-year-old David Lieberman of Bethesda knew these sub-literate sock monkeys were out of their gourds. “It has to be considered a planet because it circles the sun,” he said. “Pluto’s not even the farthest planet.” Sometimes, he has learned, Neptune and Pluto switch places.
And he’s SIX, people.
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August 25th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Ouch. Toilet monkeys.
I guess you could kind of say the same thing about some biology…
We all have physics envy…
August 25th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
But JB … you get to introduce yourself and say you have a “Lysis To Kill” … and the rest of us would love be able to do that.
August 27th, 2006 at 8:05 am
True, true. Wait.
How did you know about that? It’s supposed to be a secret.
There’s a leak…
August 27th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Oops. I guess I’d better stop selling these t-shirts to civilians.
If the Men In Green show up reciting the stages of mitosis I will know you ratted me out.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:26 am
It seems to me that these scientists are just seting things straight about Pluto.
Just as so many are upset about the recent plutonic down-grade, people in the 1930’s were upset about Pluto’s very discovery.
See the site below for rare photos of the original Pluto protests.
http://home.comcast.net/~clarksbarn/PLUTO.HTML
September 1st, 2006 at 8:16 am
Christopher,
That is terrific stuff! I wish I had thought of “Kuiper’s Belt Buckle” …