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[Triage IV]

When I was 14...
For the first time in history a woman Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime minister in the UK. 
As technology becomes smaller Sony released the Walkman a worldwide success costing $200 which at that time was a significant amount of money. 
Also the first Snowboard is invented in the USA.
Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs- a partial meltdown of a reactor occurs in the worst civilian nuclear accident in US history, at Midtown, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Debut of the Garfield comic strip.
President Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement.
The movies Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Breaking Away are released.
Stephen King publishes The Dead Zone
John Wayne and Nelson Rockefeller pass away.

[primeknight]

When I was 14:

Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Space Shuttles were regularly being launched into low Earth orbit, and the Hubble Telescope was being fixed
The last episode of Star Trek the Next Generation Aired (for the first time)
The Winter Olympics were held without the Summer Olympics that same year for the first time, also Nancy Kerrigan was assaulted
A few awesome movies came out: Tombstone, Schindler's List, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Lion King, True Lies
Bill Clinton was the President of the United States (who by the way had one of the highest approval ratings at the end of his term), also Richard Nixon passed away
The Cold War was over, which was still a big deal at the time
Toronto Blue Jays won the world Series, and then the next season: professional baseball went on strike and the World Series was cancelled for the second time in history
The OJ drama began with a White Ford Bronco being chased/escorted? by the police
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana fame killed himself (a positive spin on that: it made way for the Foo Fighters soon after)
Superman had just been resurrected
And Pluto was still a planet

[Triage IV]

Pluto will always be a planet...
And Paragon City will always be my home.

[LaughingAlex]

Pluto will always be a planet...
And Paragon City will always be my home.

Eh, alot don't consider pluto a planet anymore due to it's being part of the Kaiper Belt(I know I spelled that wrong but spell checker isn't accounting for the name).

But yeah, Paragon city will always be our home.

[downix]

Pluto is a planet. To be precise, a Dwarf Planet. It fills the categorization system which also covers the Giants such as Saturn and Jupiter. It is not the only dwarf planet in our solar system, sharing that designation with Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Sedna, and Ceres.

[LaughingAlex]

Pluto is a planet. To be precise, a Dwarf Planet. It fills the categorization system which also covers the Giants such as Saturn and Jupiter. It is not the only dwarf planet in our solar system, sharing that designation with Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Sedna, and Ceres.

Yeah, true.  I guess if we have dwarf stars it makes sense to have dwarf planets.  But still, if it was medieval times people would be "A dwarf planet!?  HERESY!  The dwarves have a planet!".

I wonder if they ever allow it, name a world in dwarf fortress pluto.....

[downix]

Yeah, true.  I guess if we have dwarf stars it makes sense to have dwarf planets.  But still, if it was medieval times people would be "A dwarf planet!?  HERESY!  The dwarves have a planet!".

I wonder if they ever allow it, name a world in dwarf fortress pluto.....

The classification makes sense. It denotes objects with enough gravity to have pulled themselves into a spherical shape, like a larger planet, but who have not cleared their neighborhood of other objects.

[Elfin]

When I was 14 it was the start of the 80s. 80 or 81. I think that was tbe year Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt.

[LaughingAlex]

I keep coming here as, well, it's hard for me to think of things to do.  Quoting a few others, "Are we there yet?".

On a side note, messed with DF yesterday, I need to play that more and play a fortress to the bitter end one of these days so I can say I experienced a tantrum spiral.

[primeknight]

The classification makes sense. It denotes objects with enough gravity to have pulled themselves into a spherical shape, like a larger planet, but who have not cleared their neighborhood of other objects.

I have multiple issues with this definition of a planet.  When I heard it, it seemed like the committee tried to come up with a way to not classify Pluto as a planet:
1.  Pluto has multiple moons
2.  No object has completely cleared it's orbit (i.e. humans constantly watching space for civilization killers, or the Shoemaker comet hitting Jupiter), how much does the orbit have to be clear 
3. a young solar system will have many smaller objects in the orbits of the larger ones, so the "definition" of a planet means that a new solar system is full of minor/dwarf plants and very few (if any) planets.

People like to or need to classify things to allow them to understand or remember things better, but in this case science has over complicated  something simple.  I suppose in a few years we'll have a better understanding of the universe around us and we might have the tools we need to better organize the layout of our own corner of it.    Like maybe classifying Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune as planets is an error and they should be something else, like pre-stars,  satars, lanets, or slanets.  Or we could just call them Giant Orbiting Gas-covered Spherical Objects:  a Gogso for short.

And taking that back to CoX:  Maybe when CoX relaunches I'll make a new hero with a huge body, spherical armor,  and rad or dark powers named Gogso.  Yeah :) !

[chuckv3]

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=mediacdn.snorgcontent.com%2Fmedia%2Fcatalog%2Fproduct%2Fi%2Ft%2Fitsokaypluto_fullpic_artwork.jpg

[downix]

I have multiple issues with this definition of a planet.  When I heard it, it seemed like the committee tried to come up with a way to not classify Pluto as a planet:
1.  Pluto has multiple moons
2.  No object has completely cleared it's orbit (i.e. humans constantly watching space for civilization killers, or the Shoemaker comet hitting Jupiter), how much does the orbit have to be clear 
3. a young solar system will have many smaller objects in the orbits of the larger ones, so the "definition" of a planet means that a new solar system is full of minor/dwarf plants and very few (if any) planets.

People like to or need to classify things to allow them to understand or remember things better, but in this case science has over complicated  something simple.  I suppose in a few years we'll have a better understanding of the universe around us and we might have the tools we need to better organize the layout of our own corner of it.    Like maybe classifying Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune as planets is an error and they should be something else, like pre-stars,  satars, lanets, or slanets.  Or we could just call them Giant Orbiting Gas-covered Spherical Objects:  a Gogso for short.

And taking that back to CoX:  Maybe when CoX relaunches I'll make a new hero with a huge body, spherical armor,  and rad or dark powers named Gogso.  Yeah :) !

1) Eris has moons, as does Haumea.
2) perfect orbit clearing is not part of the definition
3) yes, that is again part of the definition. Smaller objects become bigger objects.

[LaughingAlex]

I have multiple issues with this definition of a planet.  When I heard it, it seemed like the committee tried to come up with a way to not classify Pluto as a planet:
1.  Pluto has multiple moons
2.  No object has completely cleared it's orbit (i.e. humans constantly watching space for civilization killers, or the Shoemaker comet hitting Jupiter), how much does the orbit have to be clear 
3. a young solar system will have many smaller objects in the orbits of the larger ones, so the "definition" of a planet means that a new solar system is full of minor/dwarf plants and very few (if any) planets.

People like to or need to classify things to allow them to understand or remember things better, but in this case science has over complicated  something simple.  I suppose in a few years we'll have a better understanding of the universe around us and we might have the tools we need to better organize the layout of our own corner of it.    Like maybe classifying Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune as planets is an error and they should be something else, like pre-stars,  satars, lanets, or slanets.  Or we could just call them Giant Orbiting Gas-covered Spherical Objects:  a Gogso for short.

And taking that back to CoX:  Maybe when CoX relaunches I'll make a new hero with a huge body, spherical armor,  and rad or dark powers named Gogso.  Yeah :) !

If our characters make it and whatnot, I'll have Stellar Plasmara, a living, condensed hyper giant(with about as weird story as it gets, I guess).

[Ohioknight]

I have multiple issues with this definition of a planet.  When I heard it, it seemed like the committee tried to come up with a way to not classify Pluto as a planet:
...
And taking that back to CoX:  Maybe when CoX relaunches I'll make a new hero with a huge body, spherical armor,  and rad or dark powers named Gogso.  Yeah :) !

Pluto was known as a planet only through misunderstanding, historical confusion, and newspaper publicity.  "Planet X" was discovered while looking for another Neptune further out and became a big Celebrity that was eventually named "Pluto".  When it became obvious that Pluto wasn't what they were looking for and there WAS no real "Planet X" (any more than there was a planet "Vulcan"), every school textbook had Pluto on the list and it was too late. 

As we gained a full understanding of Pluto and it's Kupier cousins it became clear that if you kept Pluto on the list, there was absolutely no reason not to put Ceres back on it and that opened a whole huge kettle of worms (what's the cut-off?).

When I get COH back, I'll create another Speedster scrapper, because that was the most fun I ever had playing the game.

[Tubbius]

Pluto will always be a planet...
And Paragon City will always be my home.

What this person said!  :)

[Cailyn Alaynn]

In true CoH-chat fashion...This thread is extremely ADHD. lol.

[Lucretia MacEvil]

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=mediacdn.snorgcontent.com%2Fmedia%2Fcatalog%2Fproduct%2Fi%2Ft%2Fitsokaypluto_fullpic_artwork.jpg

All I could think of was this pic:
https://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag319/m4smart/dating-fails-plutos-still-a-little-bitter_zps98d8578f.png

[Ohioknight]

All I could think of was this pic:
https://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag319/m4smart/dating-fails-plutos-still-a-little-bitter_zps98d8578f.png

What the heck does NASA have to do with it?

[Blondeshell]

All I could think of was this pic:
https://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag319/m4smart/dating-fails-plutos-still-a-little-bitter_zps98d8578f.png

What the heck does NASA have to do with it?

In reality, they have nothing to do with it. But, guessing the person who made the pic was an American, and judging by the care they took to make sure "sincerely" was spelled correctly, they probably used the only organization that most similar people would associate with space-related topics.

[Harpospoke]

Yeah, true.  I guess if we have dwarf stars it makes sense to have dwarf planets.  But still, if it was medieval times people would be "A dwarf planet!?  HERESY!  The dwarves have a planet!".

;D    I lol'ed

Poor Pluto.   I should make a grumpy character from Pluto who is out to hunt down and kill all scientists who declassified his planet (villain) or prove Pluto is worthy by doing good deeds (hero).