So the idiots at the International Astronomy Union has decided to down grade pluto, this is just waiting for me to make a blog post about so I will happily oblige, note I was orignally going to post this on a forum but decided against it and instead to just blog about it here.

Ok... get ready for a really looooooooooooong post from me involving massive amounts of geekage. So break out the boxes of Mt. Dew to stay awake class, Because Razgriez's Ramblings and Science 101 is now in session

Ahem* Lesson 1. Who made this choice? Well Simply put a group called the International Astronomy Union, However when the vote was taken, about only 300 showed up (out of I believe 1200 or 2200 there, know I read it somewhere and if so could someone please confirm for me the number of members there) Now in my opinion, anything that has the word "International" behind the rest of the can be gurranteed about 90% of the time to be a Gathering of the Worlds "brightest" idiots. but thats enough of that sides Nasa is still saying its a planet and there is that one mission they are planning to send a craft out there to investigate pluto.

Lesson 2, Dwarf planet? Wait last I checked, if a Rain coat is still a coat, and a cell phone is still a phone, then isn't a Dwarf planet still a planet? I mean it looks like a case of "if it looks like a duck, flys like a duck and quacks like a duck then its a duck right"? (Warning immense amount of being cynical and injections of sarcasm with the following impersonation of the IAU and my imaginary convo with them)
"No it is not, its a Dwarf planet" Me: "But it has the word Planet right in it!!!!" "uhm... Well ok fine, but its not a planet." "But it has what now? 3 possible moons including Charon? and Charon, though very close to Pluto's full size and they orbit pluto like a moo...." "Uhm correction, these 2 other objects while they appear smaller in these satelite imagery are also "Dwarf Planets" Charon will be considered nothing special aside from a rock floating in outer space near pluto that seems to have an odd attraction to pluto for some reason." "We called that a gravitational field and orbit last time I checked. Sides I believe the last controversy with pluto and Charon was possible consideration of calling them binary planets. and all that stuff" "But it cain't be because Charon is just a speck of dust floatin..." "Don't even finish that phrase, please save me some of my sanity from this sheer idiocy. And anywas besides Pluto orbits the sun. Yea ok so does the asteroid belt but Pluto still has a planet like orbit." "No it doesn't, as revised in our new rules about whats considered a planet. Plutos orbit is not normal like a planets since it crosses Neptunes orbit." Me: "Let me see this rule *grabs the rule book on classifications of planets* "WHAT THE (*Insert profanity of choice here*) !!! Its written in Red crayon!!! Ever heard of something called "rogue orbit" ? You know what never mind, obviosly you take great pride is destroying most of the worlds chid hood science Education, I might as well go about and join in the fun of messing with people's minds." "sir are you going to be helping people with the change?" Me : "oh heck no I'm going to see Ms. Cleo the Fortune Teller to see what the destruction of the 9th planet does messing with the planetary alignment and her mind's eye just for kicks....."

P.S. admit it. You knew someone was going to break out the "O RLY?" Owl just for this.

UPDATE: Ok, I read a new issue of Discover Magazine (the one on top 100 Science storys of '06) and someone in a letter point something very interesting out. Pluto every so often cuts through the 8th planet, Neptune, Path thus (And im going with pre IAU/ "I Don't give a crap about what they say, its still a planet" Pluto here) meaning that for a number of years, Pluto is the 8th planet (oh sorry, Dwarf planet...) and Neptunes the 9th planet in range from the Sun, Problem anyone? Pluto was was demoted to Dwarf planet by the definition that its Orbit is taken up by other objects, especially from the Kupier Belt (where Comets and other objects or "dwarf planet" things are out there, including the infamous Planet X (Read the one named Xena by that guy) So... since Neptunes path is cut across by Plutos, doesn't that mean that Neptune , by the definition of the IAU on planets and Dwarf Planets, is a dwarf planet?


Ah...... Junk Science at its best.....