[ExI] fermi question alive and well

[William Flynn Wallace]

That one surprises me.  I am surprised the Astromoners couldn’t arrange
things a little differently, being as so many people had kind of an
emotional connection to Pluto (with the whole Disney dog thing (remind me
was Pluto the dog who owned another dog or the dog who was owned by another
dog?  (Or was he the dog owned by a giant mouse?  (Any of these scenarios
is as disturbing as it is weird.))))  spike


 Don't you need quadruple parentheses both before and after?   Pluto - dog,
mouse, Spongebob Squarepants - people will accept anything - next book to
hit the charts:  The Wisdom of Spongebob Squarepants.  I would buy it!


bill w

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 11:50 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> How did Pluto get kicked out of the planet category?  The astronomers
> voted on criteria for being called a planet.  Thus defining planet….
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> That one surprises me.  I am surprised the Astromoners couldn’t arrange
> things a little differently, being as so many people had kind of an
> emotional connection to Pluto (with the whole Disney dog thing (remind me
> was Pluto the dog who owned another dog or the dog who was owned by another
> dog?  (Or was he the dog owned by a giant mouse?  (Any of these scenarios
> is as disturbing as it is weird.))))
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> The astromoners could have arbitrarily figured out some kind of definition
> which would stretch far enough to define Pluto as a planet, even though the
> hardcore Astronomy types would still know it is the biggest of a cluster of
> at least six gravitationally-bound Edgeworth-Kuiper belt objects.  Either
> way, Pluto is still cool in my view of life.
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> spike
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