Pluto was declared a planet again

[Pinker-tan]

http://time.com/3429938/pluto-planet-vote/

http://2paragraphs.com/2014/10/pluto-is-a-planet-again-according-to-harvard-astronomers/

 

[Chance]

neato

 

[staticvoid]

VIVA LA PLUTO

 

[Ceubie]

but why


i feel there will be a lot of confusion in astronomy textbooks written between 2006 and 2014, those poor children won't know whose telling the truth...

 

[KillerZebra]

People are really misreading these articles.

No Pluto is not officially a planet.

Yes, people are a Harvard debate voted that is was a planet. But it was a school debate, there isn't really anything more to it.

 

[hXcjedders 2]

MRW

 

[hXcjedders 2]

People are really misreading these articles.

No Pluto is not officially a planet.

Yes, people are a Harvard debate voted that is was a planet. But it was a school debate, there isn't really anything more to it.

Actually, this was a vote that basically said the IAU doesn't know what it's talking about, and if you read further in the first article it mentions that most of them went to get lunch instead of determining if Pluto was a planet or not. In essence, this was a high level educational debate which could in fact hold standing.

In science you need people to agree with your findings for them to be correct. The more people that agree the more correct you are.

 

[Sheev_Palpatine]

Well if it is ever officially declared a planet again, talk about all that money they're going to have to spend to replace school science textbooks.

 

[Defibyoulater]

UP WITH MUSSOLINI. DOWN WITIH MUSSOLINI. UP WITH LEONARDO DE CAPRIO.

 

[Kyle]

How does a university debate saying that Pluto is a planet equate to the entire scientific community of Astrology agreeing that Pluto is a planet? Gotta love misleading article titles.
Answer: It doesn't.

 

[hXcjedders 2]

How does a university debate saying that Pluto is a planet equate to the entire scientific community of Astrology agreeing that Pluto is a planet? Gotta love misleading article titles.
Answer: It doesn't.

Did you read this part?

The organization may seem to count even less when you consider something Gingerich revealed during his arguments. He was there for the 2006 IAU vote, which came when most of the attendees had already gone home. Just 424 of the organization’s nearly 10,000 members were present, and when the organizers offered the gathering the chance to reconsider Pluto’s demotion, Gingerich said, “they voted not to vote again because they wanted to go to lunch, so that was the end of it.”

424 people decided Pluto should not be a planet.

Mind you, this university debate isn't some undergrad physics class, this is doctorate level stuff. You don't just take classes at a university, some people do research and experiments there after they have achieved their PhD

 

[Kyle]

Mind you, this university debate isn't some undergrad physics class, this is doctorate level stuff. You don't just take classes at a university, some people do research and experiments there after they have achieved their PhD

Don't misunderstand, I'm not trying discredit Harvard here, after all they're fucking Harvard. I'm discrediting the article which preys on the reader's assumption that "Harvard says Pluto is a planet=Every astrologist says Pluto is a planet", it's pathetic that people resort to masking the truth like this just get more views on their article.