New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet 328
pease1 writes "Wired and others are reporting that for New Mexico, the fight for Pluto is not over. Seven months after the International Astronomical Union downgraded the distant heavenly body to a 'dwarf planet,' a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed world back some of its respect. State lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill that proposes that 'as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies, it be declared a planet.' The lawmaker who introduced the measure represents the county in which Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto's discoverer, was born. For many of us old timers, and those who had the honor of meeting Clyde, this just causes a belly laugh and is pure fun. Not to mention a bit of poking a stick in the eye."
Fine (Score:5, Funny)
Well fine, I'm gonna start my own Pluto-recognizing state, with blackjack, and hookers!
In fact, forget the state, and the blackjack.
Re:Is that even possible? (Score:4, Funny)
Read up on "Freedom Fries" for a good example of redefinition.
Pfft, this move is pure self-preservation. (Score:5, Funny)
Hurrah for New Mexico! (Score:2, Funny)
arrrrr? (Score:5, Funny)
Given the relative scarcity of larger bodies of water there, I did not realize that New Mexico had any pirates at all, let alone some in the legislature. Good work!
Also, pi = 4. Or maybe 3.2. The government has spoken, let it be written!
Re:Great (Score:3, Funny)
I wouldn't be so sure of that; She is a politician after all. It's in her nature to whore herself out.
Re:Hurrah for New Mexico! (Score:3, Funny)
Petition your local representative for more planets and bigger telescopes, so all your favorite people can have a planet named after them.
Well, if the Tomato isn't a fruit then ??? (Score:4, Funny)
2) Pass a law declaring victory
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
Legally speaking, at one time tomatoes were not considered fruits.
Brilliant Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fine (Score:5, Funny)
So just Pluto-recognizing hookers?
Re:Fine (Score:3, Funny)
Planet or not? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is that even possible? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stop listening to scientists! (Score:5, Funny)
Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez, Landscape Architect
I see a possible vested interest here. Pluto = planet = greater chance of manned mission = greater chance of human colonisation = opportunities galore for landscape architects. (I hear Pluto is in a very secluded location, but could benefit from some remodelling, and possibly an ornamental pond or two).
Re:Fine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fine (Score:3, Funny)
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
And Ketchup is a vegetable (Score:3, Funny)
which, by the way has more bearing on reality than the semantics of the word "planet".
this is *still* a non-story.
Texas Two-step (Score:5, Funny)
Actually it's time-dependent (Score:1, Funny)
Student: Today from Albuquerque Pluto is overhead between 2:28am and 1:00pm. It's night before 7:23am and after 7:10pm. Answer: 2:28am-7:23am and 7:10pm-midnight.
The PR campaign is working (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pluto (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In other news. . . (Score:3, Funny)
So some god went on a cosmic health kick and implemented a high fiber diet? And when he took a crap, he breathed life into the results and called them Humans?
Compromise based on DST (Score:5, Funny)
It's part of a reciprocal agreement (Score:3, Funny)
I, for one... (Score:3, Funny)