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Don't Be Screwin' With Pluto

Post by hobie16 » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:21 pm

Astrophysicist: Love of Pluto the dog led to fury over planet’s demotion

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (pictured below) blames the backlash he has received for recognizing Pluto as a dwarf – and not a full-fledged – planet on the popularity of the Disney dog with the same name.

In his new book, “The Pluto Files,” Tyson asserts that Americans’ love for Walt Disney’s Pluto the dog caused the public outrage that greeted the planet’s demotion in classification to a dwarf planet.

“It’s a hypothesis, but I have no other way to account for it,” he said in a phone interview with Around Disney. “I landed there because we all know Mickey’s dog, and we’re interested in cartoon characters around the same time as we learn about the planets.”

In 2000, Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, rearranged the New York City institution’s exhibit on the solar system.

Instead of the old-school way of grouping the planets by their distance from the sun, Tyson figured it’d be more accurate to group planets by type.

For instance, Mercury, Earth and Mars are rocky planets, while Jupiter and Saturn are gaseous.

In the Hayden Planetarium exhibit, Pluto is grouped with a bunch of other icy objects that skirt the edge of the solar system.

“We presented a new family photo of the solar system — we weren’t just counting planets,” Tyson explained.

Well, everything was fine until a scathing article appeared on the front page of The New York Times early in 2001: “Pluto’s not a planet? Only in New York.”

“That’s when I started getting hate mail from third graders,” Tyson said.

Walt Disney had named Mickey’s famed cohort for the planet shortly after amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered it in 1930.

There was a firestorm of debate over the public dissing of Pluto by the Hayden Planetarium, even though the technical classification of Pluto had been questioned for decades within the scientific community.

The International Astronomical Union — a committee that decides scientific definitions to keep consistent scientific language – officially downgraded Pluto to a dwarf planet in August 2006.

In response to the outcry at the planet’s demotion, the Disney company issued a press release:

Although we think it’s DOPEY that Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet, which has made some people GRUMPY and others just SLEEPY, we are not BASHFUL in saying we would be HAPPY if Disney’s Pluto would join us as the 8th dwarf. We think it’s just what the DOC ordered and it’s nothing to SNEEZE at.

The California Legislature even approved a law within minutes of the IAU’s vote in 2006 officially recognizing Pluto as a planet — at least, as far as the state of California is concerned. The legislation included a reference to the Disney character of the same name:

WHEREAS: Pluto, named after the Roman God of the Underworld and affectionately sharing name of California’s most famous animated dog, has a special connection to California’s history and culture…

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Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:29 pm

I thin WDW and DLR should issue a public BAN on him from attending any parks...Until he signs a statement saying tht Pluto DOES exist!!


(either one!!)


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Post by drcorey » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:55 pm

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:I thin WDW and DLR should issue a public BAN on him from attending any parks...Until he signs a statement saying tht Pluto DOES exist!!


(either one!!)


hehehehe
I'll do the thin'in around here bobba louie...


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Re: Don't Be Screwin' With Pluto

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:58 pm

drcorey wrote:I'll do the thin'in around here bobba louie...
I thought that was Augie Doggie, and not the Doggie Daddy.

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Post by BRWombat » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:42 am

All of this is silly. Everyone knows Pluto is a star. :pluto:


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Re: Don't Be Screwin' With Pluto

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:30 pm

BRWombat wrote:All of this is silly. Everyone knows Pluto is a star. :pluto:
Hmmm, good point.

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Re: Don't Be Screwin' With Pluto

Post by felinefan » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:45 am

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:I thought that was Augie Doggie, and not the Doggie Daddy.

hehehehehe
Actually, that was Quick Draw McGraw, to his sidekick, Baba Louie.


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Re: Don't Be Screwin' With Pluto

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:07 am

felinefan wrote:Actually, that was Quick Draw McGraw, to his sidekick, Baba Louie.
(I KNOW)

I still have the toy treasure chest/trunk that was made out of plastic and came wtih the figures of Quickssss Draw and Baba Louie. It was the one that fell off the stage coach at the end of every show, Baba catches it and runs after the coach!!

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My all time favorite of the HB ones, was Snaglepuss!!!


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Post by BRWombat » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:51 pm

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:... (BTW, I see you have yet ANOTHER avatar!!!)
Boredom + Time = New Avatars :)


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Re: Don't Be Screwin' With Pluto

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:27 pm

BRWombat wrote:Boredom + Time = New Avatars :)
Hmm, so its a Wombat World?

hehehehe

(that could be a T.V. Series!!!!)


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