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2006-08-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

This Just In: Scientists decide Plutos no longer a planet

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Posted by eLarson 2006-08-24 10:06|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Funny the sh*t that astronomers worry about.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-24 10:31|| 2006-08-24 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Plutanese officials are monitoring the situation carefully.

Posted by Choluque Gluns1303 2006-08-24 11:04|| 2006-08-24 11:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Walt Disney is turning in his grave.

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-24 11:57|| 2006-08-24 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Disney will be Happy. Pluto will be a Dwarf Planet. Probably going to be seven of them.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-24 12:10|| 2006-08-24 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Does this mean the Plutanese delegation will be expelled from the UN?

Posted by kelly 2006-08-24 12:10|| 2006-08-24 12:10|| Front Page Top

#6 The Bush administration's reckless policies toward global warming have now resulted in an 11% reduction in the number of planets in the solar system. How long can this continue?

Posted by Matt 2006-08-24 12:35|| 2006-08-24 12:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Nyah nyah, Pluto--you can't join in our reindeer games!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-08-24 13:00|| 2006-08-24 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 This Just In: Scientists decide Plutos no longer a planet

there goes the neighborhood!

Posted by RD 2006-08-24 21:08|| 2006-08-24 21:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Makes a lot moe sense than adding three more. Besides Pluto has an irregular orbit (it's sometimes closer to the sun than Neptune), and it's orbit is not even in the plane of the ecliptic.

Posted by DMFD 2006-08-24 21:58|| 2006-08-24 21:58|| Front Page Top

#10 no matter - I'll still call it a planet and mispronounce Uranus just because it makes me smile

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-24 23:20|| 2006-08-24 23:20|| Front Page Top

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