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I’ve taken to the hobby of lurking on liberal blogs, just to see what the other side is saying. I actually signed up on one, and posted my first comment on this thread:
“Would it be fair to say that this would work both ways?”
Let’s see how fast I get banned. Start the clock!
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The International Astronomical Union is now debating a proposal to expand the number of official planets in our solar system from nine to twelve. Pluto’s status as a planet would be preserved, and three new planets would be added: Ceres (in the Asteroid Belt, and once termed as a planet in the 19th Century until it was “demoted”); Charon (Pluto’s companion), and 2003 UB313, the object discovered past Pluto’s orbit which got the whole thing going.
I got a chuckle when Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium in the United States and host of PBS’s “Stargazer” television show, explained it thus:
“The solar system is a middle-aged star, and like all middle-aged things, its waistline is expanding.”
Hmmm…twelve planets of man…I wonder if the Cylons would care to comment?
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