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NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he's fighting for Pluto: 'I am very much in the camp of 'make Pluto a planet again'
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NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he’s fighting for Pluto: ‘I am very much in the camp of ‘make Pluto a planet again’

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  1. Somnambulist815 on

    I don’t think the basis of science should be “that’s how it was when I was a kid”

  3. sceadwian on

    WTF….. They did not need to drag that back up again. Seriously?

    I’ve never seen people claiming to be scientists make worse arguments than when trying to defend Pluto as a planet. Let it goooooooo!

  5. PaymentTurbulent193 on

    That’s so stupid. If the science says Pluto isn’t a planet, why would you argue otherwise?

  7. low_amplitude on

    Why don’t people understand that by making Pluto a planet we’d have hundreds, possibly thousands of planets in the solar system. They want their precious little ice boi but not all the others just like it.

  11. SlugsPerSecond on

    If Pluto is a planet then Ceres and a bunch of other desolate rocks spinning around the sun also need to be. I’m sure he’s aware of that, right?

  12. Own_Proposal3827 on

    I’m glad this is what our competent and intelligent NASA administrator is focused on. Hey, at least it might distract him from defunding the whole thing. /s

  14. PapaBorq on

    When Pluto was first dropped from planet status, I was like ‘the hell is wrong with you’…

    But then I read the guidelines and yeah… It makes sense. To properly categorize the millions of objects we can encounter in space, it makes sense to have a threshold for classifications because it affects other things.

    Now, what those guidelines were, I don’t remember lol.

  15. meowmix001 on

    So fucking stupid. Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet. This administration loves to find bullshit arbitrary things to argue about.

  17. Human-Assumption-524 on

    Motherfucker better be doing the same for Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres, Orcus, Sedna, etc

    We either have 8 planets or hundreds none of this 9 bullshit.

  20. jimtow28 on

    Of course he is. Just more proof that he’s not fit for the job he has for the pile.

  21. DriftMantis on

    Is this guy joking or is he really just another braindead nonce in charge of things? Lets make eris and ceres a planet too then.

  22. atxsouth on

    Dear Mr. Jared Isaacman, we should make Eris a planet. After all it’s as big as Pluto.

  26. VFiddly on

    Childish nonsense, frankly.

    Pluto remains the same thing whether you call it a planet or a dwarf planet. If you were truly interested in Pluto then it wouldn’t matter to you which one of those it was. It really does not matter.

  27. Noxaur on

    I don’t get the fuss over Pluto to be honest. It is still a planet, just a dwarf planet. If the argument is that people want to see it on space related media and learning tools again, then we need to include the other dwarf planets and KBOs too.

  28. gigashadowwolf on

    Look, on an emotional level, I want Pluto to be a planet again too.

    But it simply screws up categorization too much. Discoveries like Eris show why Pluto can’t be categorized as a planet anymore. Even the term Dwarf Planet, is basically paying it lip service. It’s practically a large asteroid.

  32. IowaKidd97 on

    Wasn’t there a Rick and Morty episode about this? Not saying we should guide policy and personal opinions on an edgy comedy, but they had pretty pertinent things to say about this particular issue.

  33. SurlyJSurly on

    He has little to no influence on the IAU. So who cares what he is in the camp of.

  34. jxj24 on

    What a stupid, meaningless waste of time and effort. Fortunately there’s nothing else more deserving of his attention?