[extropy-chat] Our Solar System Planets

[Jeff Medina]

On 8/23/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Is there any chance the misappropriation of the word "pluton" from the
> geologist vocabulary [1] will cause the IAU to ditch the invention of
> "Pluton" to describe something *completely* different?  There are apparently
> more than a few geologists that are miffed over this.

1.  I doubt it.
2.  I hope not.

If context can't enable someone to differentiate between which of the
two completely different referents someone intends when they say or
write "pluton", one has rather different, and worse, issues upon which
one should be focusing.

-- 
Jeff Medina
Sr. Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
Sr. Programmer, Elemental Solutions

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