What's the point? Dick Cheney's cock has already been there and wiped out all the native species.

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Who gives a shit about Pluto, it isn't even a planet (at least it shoudn't be)

It is about the size of Texas, there are asteroids that big, at least according to Armageddon (which sucked)..

I hate Pluto! I didn't like it when I was a boy and I don't like it now that I have become a man.

Does that make me Anti-Plutonian?

Yes. It sure as sh__ does!

Stupid frickin ice cube.

Pluto is a planet.

Don't let these elitist, ivory tower, "Kuiper Belt Object" clowns tell you differently.

Besides, if Pluto were to lose it's planetary status, it would mean that the terrorists will have won.

And you don't support the terrosits. Do you?

Hey, what did I do?

I'm surprised to hear that New Horizons has given up on teaching Visual Basic and ASP and moved on to building spacecraft, particularly since their rockets are clearly causing Global Warming on Pluto and bringing on a premature Cold as Shit Ice Age there.

Fucking corporate bastards.

Bush Lied, Plutonians died, man. Word.

Pluto, you know exactly what you did.

We both know what you did.

Quit the frickin innocent act, you super-sub-zero piece of planetary garbage.

Hey Saturn has chunks bigger than you in its damn stool!

Saturn, now a planet!

Saturn? Oh, yes with his gaudy rings. Absolutely the gayest planet of us all (NTTAWWT). He doesn’t orbit the sun darling. He swishes around it. It figures you would have the hots for Saturn.

Don’t knock me for my size – good things come in small packages dontchaknow!

Well Ace, they may be probing Pluto, but we all know that Dick Cheney has probed Uranus.

(C'mon! Someone had to make a Uranus joke eventually.)

I took my exams for my MCSD at New Horizon! Biff Boff is right, they've really branced out!

Saturn's the gayest planet?

Just because of couple of rings and a little color?

I think you're just a bit jealous you lathetic monochrome ice cube!

Somebody's been orbiting just a little too close to Uranus

A few years back some were even trying to claim that PLUTO was,nt even a planet BUT IT IS BUB

Read Jack's post. Then read Spurwing's post. Then, re-read Jack's post.

It depends on what the definition of 'planet' is Spurwing. Apparently it is not only fucking cold, but too fucking cold & too fucking small to form itself into a spheroid. Peanut shaped things orbiting the Sun are 'asteroids'. Even peanut shaped things with satellites. So... we'll redefine 'planet'.

Another thing is we Have 10 planets now. With the temp name being XENA.

So... when did we suddenly develop the ability to reach the moon in NINE HOURS???????

Nine hours to the moon is pretty friggin' sweet, I have to say. I didn't realize we could do that now either, I was too busy being stunned by the time for the trip to Juptier. Really hammers home how huge the cosmos is.

What kind of "G-forces" does it undergo? Could a manned spacecraft get to the moon in 9 hours?

Sandy,

I don't know if the G-forces would be overwhelming, but if we could get a manned mission to the moon in NINE HOURS (!) that's frickin' awesome!

Yeah, I'm having problems getting over the NINE HOURS thing - it took something like four days in 1969 from launch to first footstep on the moon.

Dude, I can't even drive to DALLAS in nine hours. At nine hours, I'm still just crossing the Texas border on I35. And that slingshot maneuver around Jupiter to pick up speed will save them FIVE YEARS on the rest of the trip? Wow.

Nine hours to the Moon isn't that hard... if you want to keep going. Presumably, however, the Apollo astronauts didn't want to hit the Sea of Tranquility at 5 times the speed of a rifle bullet.

In addition, the Apollo missions weren't straight shots to the Moon: the capsules lingered in low Earth orbit for a while. They had to check systems, ensure that everything survived launch intact, and re-dock with the Lunar Module (which was actually backwards during launch). Then, and only then, did they slowly start to accelerate towards their destination. This also meant that they didn't get to use the Saturn V's boost strength to accelerate them: they used a small kicker rocket.

Finally, the Pluto probe is the size of a baby grand piano; the Apollo capsules (including Lunar Module and kicker rocket) were each the size of a city bus. A little harder to throw that bad boy at top speed.

I have a baby grand piano in my living room. Now I have something in common with Pluto, which will have a baby-grand-piano-sized manamde object dropped on it! As the whale said, I wonder if it will be my friend?

No World Of Ptavvs references? Yeah, I can't think of any either. We're calling planet's gay now, and Jupiter hasn't come up yet? It's got a moon named after a boy Jupiter diddled, man.

If you ask me, Pluto/Charon is a binary planet, and I'm pretty sure they are both spheroids. Even Ceres is practically a sphere, and it's a lot smaller.