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Comment by baggy_trough | Hacker News Reader

Bring back Pluto!

As the article explains, if you bring back Pluto you must include Eris too, and perhaps Makemake and Haumea if you ignore is not as round as expected, and who know how many other undiscovered small object near them. (And Ceres? I like Ceres.)

Anyway, 9 is not an option, you must choose 8 or 10+.

no you don't. just because some nerds say it doesn't make it true. just bring back pluto and nothing else

Science works on logical rules.

What logical rule would you propose that allows Pluto to be a planet without also bringing in a bunch of others?

If you just want to arbitrarily declare things are they way you like them to be, religion is over there.

>What logical rule would you propose that allows Pluto to be a planet without also bringing in a bunch of others?

The rule would be: pluto is a planet, stay mad nerds

I don't have a dog in this fight, but the real rule appears to be "that's the way I learned it in school".

That sure does seem to be the only argument on the "keep Pluto around but nothing else" side, "I learned it this way and I'm done learning"

Why don't you like Eris?

I'm on board with all the dwarf planets. MVEMCJSUNPHME should be easy to make a mnemonic.

Pluto is grandfathered in through the collective Consciousness of society. Just treat it the same way as tomatoes, which are officially fruits but no child believes that crap.

My daughter heard that tomatoes are fruit in YouTube, and now she wants to reclassify pumpkins and half of the vegetable as fruits.

Next time you go to the grocery, grab a cucumber and a watermelon and try to find the differences.

Science doesn’t care about collective consciousness. Nor does the universe.

It’s still there. Where it always was.

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