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When you don't understand the function of classification systems it is best not to comment on their consequences. It does you no favours and leaves the classification system unaffected.Including what academia presents as fact?
Such as Pluto being our ninth planet?
When you don't understand the function of classification systems it is best not to comment on their consequences. It does you no favours and leaves the classification system unaffected.
You should be aware that Pluto continues on being Pluto, regardless of what we choose to call it. Since we have become aware of many Pluto-like objects in orbit around the Sun, some of them larger than Pluto, we can either greatly increase the number of planets, or we can further divide objects massive enough to be formed into spheres into rocky planets, gas giants, and dwarf planets. Seems sensible to me.Well I'm sure your "unaffected classification system" even had you believing Pluto was our ninth planet.
That is, up until your classification system said it wasn't.
By way of a rigged vote.
You should be aware that Pluto continues on being Pluto,
... regardless of what we choose to call it.
Since we have become aware of many Pluto-like objects in orbit around the Sun, some of them larger than Pluto, we can either greatly increase the number of planets,
... or we can further divide objects massive enough to be formed into spheres into rocky planets, gas giants, and dwarf planets.
Seems sensible to me.
Given the function of the periodic table, not surprising. But it's a non-issue. Even if they had added some elements as "transition metals" or "noble gases", that wouldn't have changed things. Oh wait, they did. Kinda like dwarf planets. How about that?Like they did the Periodic Table of the Elements, which was no problem for scientists?
Are you basically arguing that the designation of Pluto as a planet is God's doing? And that scientist are messing around with that in a harmful way?Mother Nature does what God tells her to do.
Not some shrewdness of scientists.
Are you basically arguing that the designation of Pluto as a planet is God's doing?
And that scientist are messing around with that in a harmful way?
That is just confirmation that you do not understand the function of a classification system. Classification systems provide a more convenient way of discussing "things". They help us to grasp the character, relationships and history of "things".Well I'm sure your "unaffected classification system" even had you believing Pluto was our ninth planet.
That is, up until your classification system said it wasn't.
By way of a rigged vote.
Are you basically arguing that the designation of Pluto as a planet is God's doing? And that scientist are messing around with that in a harmful way?
I had no idea that God was Greek. Learn something new, every day.In my opinion, yes.
Raising petulant objections to such changes because you are uncomfortable with change, or because you mistakenly think it is a weakness in science that you can attack, is an exercise that offers no benefits outside of such comfort as it may bring to you personally.
I had no idea that God was Greek.
Learn something new, every day.
1. Your objection to the vote lies in the outcome of the vote, not in the way it was conducted. If the vote had been for Pluto remaining a planet a deep silence would have emanated from your corner. That's why I describe your reaction as petulant.What about raising petulant objections about rigging votes?
You can think I'm calling it a weakness in science, if you want to; but I don't believe I ever called it that.
I called it what it is: a rigged vote.
Just ask sjastro.
1. Your objection to the vote lies in the outcome of the vote, not in the way it was conducted. If the vote had been for Pluto remaining a planet a deep silence would have emanated from your corner. That's why I describe your reaction as petulant.
2. Moreover, while you may never have called it that you have repeatedly cited the vote as a "bad thing".
3. I don't think the solution was an ideal one.
4. I see you chose not to address the elephant in the room - you don't understand, or certainly do not acknowledge, the functions of classification systems. Those functions remove the ground from under your objections.
When it comes to public reactions to specialist classification systems the public can take a hike.
What I'm not understanding, maybe you can clear things up, is that the designation of anything in the cosmos is a human construct. On the other hand, your position from what I'm understanding, is that the designation of Pluto as a planet is God's doing. How does that work?In my opinion, yes.
Neither of those is Greek. But I don't think that God is Latin or Germanic either.Do you know the difference between "nine" and "Pluto"?
When God created the first elementary school science book in the early 1900s, He put Pluto in there with the Planets. Which brings up the question what Pluto was before God put it in the textbook as a planet. WFTH-IWhat I'm not understanding, maybe you can things clear up, is that the designation of anything in the cosmos is a human construct. On the other hand, your position from what I'm understanding, is that the designation of Pluto as a planet is God's doing. How does that work?
BTW, Pluto is more like a comet than what we normally call planets:
Pluto May Be a Giant Comet, According to New Research
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