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Re: OT: Pluto Not A Planet!
More Victory Ensures More Justice Says United Nations...
... it's a right-wing headline.
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Re: OT: Pluto Not A Planet!
...The united nations? Victory?
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August 27th, 2006, 04:46 AM
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August 28th, 2006, 07:52 AM
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Re: OT: Pluto Not A Planet!
Quote:
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Imagine all the text books that are now wrong...
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In Brazil the government will only substitute the public schools books from 2008 onwards (they said it was too huge a cost to substitute for books already bought and printed)...
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August 30th, 2006, 11:49 AM
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Re: OT: Pluto Not A Planet!
I would think most decent textbooks printed in the last decade would have at least a passing mention of the ongoing discussions about Pluto's status. It's really a non-issue. I guess if the teacher is incompetant and unable to teach without reading rote from the textbook it might be a problem. But if that's the case the students aren't getting a decent science education anyway.
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Re: OT: Pluto Not A Planet!
Well, future generations may be comfortable with the new definition. But I grew up during the 1960s, and was taught that Pluto is a planet. It's hard for me to think of it as anything but.
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Re: OT: Pluto Not A Planet!
I heard this on Nova. That if Pluto were in Earth's orbit it would have a tail. "Now what kind of behavior for a planet is that?"
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