NASA Mission to Pluto

[Armoured]

A dwarf Planet is a planet.

Not according to scientists http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html

 

[kit]

Not according to scientists http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html

You aren't appearing to understand the action taken. Again note the noun.

Pluto didn't disappear. Pluto didn't lose it's name. Pluto changed in no way.
The original word Planet did not change. Despite news media hyperbole the Solar system continued just as it had before specificity was added to definitions.

 

[kit]

A Dwarf Planet is a planet. 'Dwarf' is the moderating adjective.

 

[mindlight]

With all the terrible news we see to often in the world, I have found the NASA mission to Pluto one of the most uplifting stories I've read in a long time. Whatever ones political or religious views, this is a wonderful story of human skill, tenacity and endeavour and I send my warm thanks and congratulations to the US for their contribution to science and discovery. Brilliant and awe inspiring.

Basically they sent a probe 5 billion miles to take pictures of a Dwarf Planet on the very extremities of our solar system. America was the first to do that and that will stand in the history books long after your bridges have all fallen down. I hope America never loses the correct balance between wonders and welfare. Moon bases, asteroid mining and a man on Mars next please!

 

[kit]

Basically they sent a probe 5 billion miles to take pictures of a Dwarf Planet on the very extremities of our solar system. America was the first to do that and that will stand in the history books long after your bridges have all fallen down. I hope America never loses the correct balance between wonders and welfare. Moon bases, asteroid mining and a man on Mars next please!

AMEN!

 

[Armoured]

A Dwarf Planet is a planet. 'Dwarf' is the moderating adjective.

I know it's a planet. I can see it in the photos. Tell it to the evolutionists who had to send a probe all the way out there to see if it was there or not.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Armoured, would you be happier if they had instead, probed Uranus?

 

[Armoured]

Armoured, would you be happier if they had instead, probed Uranus?

To the best of my knowledge, no one has tried to scientifically claim that wasn't there anymore.

 

[kit]

To the best of my knowledge, no one has tried to scientifically claim that wasn't there anymore.

No one has claimed it wasn't there anymore (except I guess you). They didn't send the probe to see if it was there or not. It was sent so that we could learn what it's precise size is and what it is composed of. What is it's relationship to other bodies in the Kuyper Belt. Is it's mass what we had previously thought. Are there more satellites that we couldn't detect from here. If we ever wanted to colonize it what would we expect. How suitable is it for an inner Solar System observatory. Are there valuable minerals on the surface. What is it that we don't even imagine that we would/could learn?

 

[Armoured]

No one has claimed it wasn't there anymore (except I guess you). They didn't send the probe to see if it was there or not. It was sent so that we could learn what it's precise size is and what it is composed of. What is it's relationship to other bodies in the Kuyper Belt. Is it's mass what we had previously thought. Are there more satellites that we couldn't detect from here. If we ever wanted to colonize it what would we expect. How suitable is it for an inner Solar System observatory. Are there valuable minerals on the surface. What is it that we don't even imagine that we would/could learn?

If they knew it was still there, why'd they say there's no planet out there?

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

Or we could have rebuilt how many bridges in this country with that money? $720 million to be exact.

Or we could leave the scientists alone and have the US government quit subsidising the NFL to the tune of $90 million (conservatively) a year. Let them play football in a park like everyone else.

 

[TerranceL]

My favorite part of this thread are the people taking Armoured seriously.

Nathan Poe where are you, we need you!

 

[TerranceL]

Or we could leave the scientists alone and have the US government quit subsidising the NFL to the tune of $90 million (conservatively) a year. Let them play football in a park like everyone else.

BUT IF WE DON'T GIVE THE BILLIONARIES MONEY TO BUILD THEIR STADIUMS... UM.....

I got nothing...

 

[Armoured]

BUT IF WE DON'T GIVE THE BILLIONARIES MONEY TO BUILD THEIR STADIUMS... UM.....

THE TERRORISTS WIN!

FTFY

 

[Archivist]

The fact is that human beings have been and hopefully always will be explorers. Whether it is reaching the Americas or locating Stanley in Africa or getting to the South Pole or setting foot on the moon, we have always reached out. The question as to whether Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet is irreverent. It is there. We had to reach it. Great job NASA!

 

[Armoured]

or setting foot on the moon,

ALLEGEDLY setting foot on the moon

 

[kit]

If they knew it was still there, why'd they say there's no planet out there?

Only you are saying that.

 

[kit]

For that matter do you know whether the scientist at NASA concurred with AU determination?

 

[Paul K]

apparently no one mentioned that the probe was sent out before the scientist decided to change their views of classifying pluto from a regular planet into a smaller dwarf planet or a planetoid. They sent the probe, two years later, they got together and began discussing the size of pluto in comparison to another dwarf planet in the asteroid belt and decided to relabel pluto into a dwarf instead of a regular planet.

 

[Archivist]

ALLEGEDLY setting foot on the moon

Please tell me that you are trolling.