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2006-08-16 Science & Technology

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Posted by BigEd 2006-08-16 13:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, once it becomes the 38464th holiest site in Islam, its future will be secure. Imagine the seeting if it were downgraded. Eye-rolling, perhaps.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-08-16 14:12|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-08-16 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm very confused, I thought Pluto was a dog.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-16 14:42|| 2006-08-16 14:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, it was a pipeline that ran under the English Channel to deliver petroleoum products to support the D-Day invasion.

Petroleum and Libricants Under The Ocean

Posted by kelly 2006-08-16 14:50|| 2006-08-16 14:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, biyatch. Ima planet now, too. Lemme tell you how we livin now.

Posted by Charon 2006-08-16 14:53|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-08-16 14:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Extraordinarily discouraging that the first item on reviewing a scientific definition is the "broader social implications" of a change. This group belongs in the same dustbin as religious and soviet scientific groups.

Posted by DoDo 2006-08-16 14:57|| 2006-08-16 14:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I think the phrase "broader social implications" was a polite way of saying "if we try to tell six billion people that something isn't a 'planet' that they're used to calling a 'planet,' they won't go along with it and we might look silly. Therefore, we will construct our definition so that doesn't happen."

Posted by Mike 2006-08-16 15:10|| 2006-08-16 15:10|| Front Page Top

#7 if we try to tell six billion people that something isn't a 'planet' that they're used to calling a 'planet,' they won't go along with it and we might look silly. Therefore, we will construct our definition so that doesn't happen

LOL Mike.... Someone ought hire you as an interpreter for the Bureaucratesian tongue.

Posted by BigEd 2006-08-16 15:20|| 2006-08-16 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll have trouble memorizing the mnemonic

My Very Elegant Mother Can Just Serve Us Nine Pizzas, Cheesy, eXtra-ordinary.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-08-16 15:22|| 2006-08-16 15:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Pluto: a fine new homeland for certain inhabitants of Judea and Samaria...and all of Gaza.

Posted by borgboy 2006-08-16 15:28|| 2006-08-16 15:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Ed: in my day job, I translate Legalese to English and back again.

Posted by Mike 2006-08-16 15:29|| 2006-08-16 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 "Pluto is just another Mickey Mouse planet". Mork from Ork

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-08-16 20:59|| 2006-08-16 20:59|| Front Page Top

#12 It may be time to build a wall, to prevent illegal immigrant Plutonians from taking all the jobs Mexicans do not want.

Posted by john">john 2006-08-16 21:07|| 2006-08-16 21:07|| Front Page Top

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