There Are Nine Planets. End of Discussion.

[MrCoffee]

My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

Rebut that!

[elehhhhna]

1. Yeah. Plus the earth is flat & the plague is spread by sunshine.

Also, Ronald Reagan was just 'tired'.

[MrCoffee]

3. the earth IS flat...and gravity is a myth, the earth just sucks.

[W_HAMILTON]

29. My Very Educated Mother Just Said Uh-oh No Pluto!

As Stephen Colbert says :)

[baldguy]

2. Show the Bible passage that says God only made nine planets.

[MrCoffee]

4. Are you beating your Bible at me?

I'll show you my 3rd grade science book.

[Sydnie]

30. All will be revealed

once you are raptured. Until then, we know nothing. :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

31. When the rapture comes, I'm stealing Marine One

That's a sweet ride.

[Sydnie]

32. Cool, I'll take over Logan Airport and you can land there anytime

you want. I will take over Logan all the other planes will belong to me. Stop by and refuel anytime. :hi:

[gratuitous]

5. That's what them eggheads want you to believe

The Good Lord above surely would have given us 12 planets, one for each of the 12 Tribes of Israel. Why do you hate God so much as to think there are only nine planets?

Wait, there could be 10 planets, to correspond with the 10 nations in Revelations. Then the leader of the one planet (Earth, of course) would be the proud horn spouting blasphemies. Now, let's see, who's the leader of Earth? Recovered from a head or facial wound? With a lying mouthpiece out in front of him working signs and wonders so as to deceive even the elect?

Think, think.

[MrCoffee]

6. There's no room for your numerological hogwash in science!

Hogwash I say! Balderdash! Besides, there are NINE words in My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas, which is why there are NINE planets.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. Yeah, if they come up with 3 more plants then they have to come up

with an acronym to support it. :bounce:

[Bluebear]

8. My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nachos.

[MrCoffee]

9. Tell it to Gallileo, hippy.

I notice you ignored Pluto. Are you an anti-Plutite?

[Bluebear]

14. Just suggesting another snack food in case Pluto is no longer with us :)

[MrCoffee]

15. They can take Pluto from us when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers

[Bluebear]

17. Well. All I know is my styrofoam models from my youth included Pluto!

[MrCoffee]

18. A pro-Plutonian!!! Our righteous fury will overtake the heretics!!!

word up.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Why are people so worked up over this?

Seems like a fundamentally stupid argument to get upset about to me.

[MrCoffee]

11. I have the same beef with the Daylight Savings Time gestapo.

What was wrong with the solar system that "they" had to go messing with it for???

[damntexdem]

26. Yeah, and besides:

what time zone is Pluto in, anyway? ;-)

[acmejack]

23. Have you ever tried to retrofit an astrolabe?

I thought not!

[Bill McBlueState]

35. yeah, this is funny

*None* of the astronomers I talk to on a daily basis really care very much about the label we attach to Pluto. Yet this issue has generated more discussion about observational astronomy among the general public than almost anything else I can remember.

[qnr]

55. Which, all-in-all, might not be a bad thing.... n/t

[JHB]

36. Because there may be three more in the near future

Astronomers are debating a proposal that would bring several objects within the definition of "planet": Ceres (the largest asteroid), Charon (Pluto's relatively huge moon), and an object officially known as 2003 UB313 (provisionally named "Xena"). See the rest of the article for more:


Plan Would Add Planets to Solar System
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press Writer
August 16, 2006, 11:40 AM EDT

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- The universe really is expanding -- astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that our solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by generations of schoolchildren.

Much-maligned Pluto would remain a planet -- and its largest moon plus two other heavenly bodies would join Earth's neighborhood -- under a draft resolution to be formally presented Wednesday to the International Astronomical Union, the arbiter of what is and isn't a planet.

"Yes, Virginia, Pluto is a planet," quipped Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The proposal could change, however: Binzel and the other nearly 2,500 astronomers from 75 nations meeting in Prague to hammer out a universal definition of a planet will hold two brainstorming sessions before they vote on the resolution next week. But the draft comes from the IAU's executive committee, which only submits recommendations likely to get two-thirds approval from the group.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-planet-spat,0,5330748.story

[sgsmith]

12. Many Very Early Men Ate Juicy Steaks Using No Plates

Adds the asteroids!

[MrCoffee]

13. Dirty Revisionist!!!

[Brotherjohn]

16. My Very Energetic Mother CAN'T Just Serve Us Nine Pizzas...

... 'Cuz UB313.

[BushOut06]

19. There are at least ten planets. Get it right.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3511678.stm

And don't forget Planet X.

[MrCoffee]

21. What does the BBC know that ain't already been said by Z.S?

Zecharia Sitchin was down with the tenth planet a long time ago. http://www.sitchin.com/

If you've never heard of this guy, I can't recommend him enough. He's the man when it comes to the ancient astronauts.

[Felinity]

20. That's not what I learned in school

Man very early made jars stand up neatly, period.

Rebut that!

OK, I can't stand it. As a (formerly professional) astrologer, the discovery of new planets, or the recognition of one of the many asteroids as more significant and worthy of note (as they are doing with Ceres now), is actually significant. In short, it describes the expansion and development of humanity, the conscious recognition of something that up to now has been unconscious or subconscious. We are now more aware of our home, the solar system environment, more conscious of the subtle forces at play within and around us; in the end we are more responsible because we know more.

[Brotherjohn]

22. Except for GWB, who believes we live on a flat plane...

... with scary monsters over the edge, and 8 objects moving around in the sky (7 visible planets and the sun), which is made of black cloth poked with thousands of pinholes.

Or so he learnt in skool.

[damntexdem]

27. Or is it just Oort Clouding our consciousness?

And I can't stand it when asteroids get too big for their britches -- sounds too much like runaway hemorrhoids.

[Jamastiene]

34. I learned that there was only one planet when I went to school.

But then again, I went to a right wing fundy school growing up. They taught us that earth was all their was and that those twinkling things in the sky were the lights in God's house. We were told not to look, lest we be called, "Peeping Toms." I was told to shut up and never question the Lord when I pointed out that my name wasn't Tom.

It wasn't until later when I entered public school that I discovered there was a cosmos outside my own anus. I sure am glad I finally learned that too. It was gettin' smelly with my head up there all the time like that.

I would be willing to bet that there are tons more planets that we haven't found yet. We know nothing more than what our silly, inadequate attempts at space travel have allowed us to learn. And some people still refuse to believe that there is more than one planet. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

24. Mother very earnestly made jelly sandwiches under no protest

This is slander against Pluto. I sure hope Pluto has retained a good attorney.

[damntexdem]

28. Oh, I'm sure that Pluto is represented by a good lawyer.

Disney likely took care of that.

[damntexdem]

25. There sure are:

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Charon.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. My Very Early Morning Jog

Starts Up Near Philadelphia

[BlooInBloo]

37. THERE! ARE! ***FIVE*** LIGHTS!

:rofl:

Just out of curiousity, what is the *definition* of a planet, according to which you say there are 9?

It's depressing how few people seem to realize that the nub of the issue is a *definition*, not a *fact*.

[hedgehog]

52. If I give you a kitten, will you see four lights?

Sisko would always have known how many lights were there. The pai wrath whipped up an entire universe for him and he made his way out. Sisko beats Jean-Luc any day!

[Nutmegger]

38. Nah

My Very Energic Mother Just Served Us Nectarines.

[obreaslan]

39. As long as they all revolve around the Earth, I don't care how many...

there are.

I know the Earth is the center of the universe, it is flat, and the stars are the lights of the Gods watching us from above.

Why learn anything new? Galileo was a bastard!!!!!

[Quantess]

40. What thread was that? n/t

[Quantess]

41. Oh, I get it now.

I saw "seved us nine pizzas" and I thought you meant there had been a "pizza party" in another thread, LOL! I was thinking there must have been a Flat Earth zealot who got tombstoned in another thread. :dunce:
Silly me.

[Brotherjohn]

42. Many Varied, Extra, Moon-like Chunks Jostle Scientists Union’s Named ...

Many Varied, Extra, Moon-like Chunks Jostle Scientists Union’s Named Planets, Coming UneXpectedly

(UneXpectedly works for either UB313 or Xena, depending on whether it gets that name or not)

[kay1864]

46. Sadly, Xena is only a...

temporary nickname. Not likely to stay :cry:

Me, I liked "Snoopy" as the name for the tenth planet (rumor from years ago, as a natural extension for Pluto) :+

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. It's pizzapies, dummy.

:eyes:

[derby378]

44. "Energetic?"

Earth's real name is Terra. Where do you think "terrestrial" came from?

My Very Talented Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

45. Kings Play Chess On Friday, Generally Speaking.

Therefore there are seven planets.

[Evoman]

47. Lol...nice

I wonder how many people got this....

[baldguy]

48. Lectroids come from Planet Ten.

So it must exist.

[KamaAina]

49. There Are Seven Planets. End of Discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets#Etymology

The original number of planets was seven: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, in orbit order outwards according to the Ptolemaic system.

Signed,

The Guild of Pre-Galilean Astronomers

:sarcasm:

[tigereye]

50. well, at one point

we used to think that the universe revolved around the earth. So, maybe some changes are in order. ;)

[hedgehog]

51. Well, if you wanted to, you could prove that the universe

revolves around the earth. It all depends on your point of view. The mathematics gets pretty gnarly though, which is why most people prefer to think of the earth as revolving around the sun.

[tigereye]

53. um, ok?????

Gallileo was wrong then? Or are we talking topology?

[hedgehog]

54. To say that the earth revolves around the sun is only a convention.

Mathematically it's a lot easier to describe the motion of the planets including Earth if we assume that the sun is stationary. However, there is no real center. Everything is moving; it's all just a matter of selecting your point of reference. Everything could be described as revolving around the earth, it's just that it's take a series of complex equations to describe the movements of each individual planet. It's been years since I learned about Kepler's laws, but I remember them as relatively simple and straightforward. I have never read exactly what Galileo said so I am in no position to comment about him. I don't know what he meant by placing the sun at the center. I just like to mess with people's minds by pointing out that we've just replaced one convention with another.

[ElboRuum]

56. Scientists MUST BE STOPPED!!!

They're fucking up all the questions in older Trivial Pursuit decks.

Edited because I had an All Your Base moment.