Pluto's Recent Demotion to a Lesser Planet

Save Pluto! Make Pluto a planet again!

The Internal Astronomical Union (IAU) has recently voted to demote Pluto from its status as a planet to that of a “lesser planet”. This decision was decided in a vote by about 10% of the world’s astronomers in what was called a “hijacked vote” by a specialized group of planetary scientists known as dynamicists.

A definition was adopted to define what is a planet and by the new definition, Earth and Neptune should not be a planet either! Pluto was demoted to its current status because it was unable to clear its own orbit of debris. Well, Pluto is within Neptune’s orbit and the Moon within the Earth’s. This part of the “new” planet definition is poor at best and needs to be done away with.

The best definition of a planet is a simple one and probably one that most people would agree on. A good basis is that of the object having enough mass/gravity to round itself. This definition would exclude objects in the meteor belt (some of which are bigger than Pluto), but would return Pluto to planet status and promote Xena to a planet.

Something is rotten with the state of intramural sports at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute

Sadly, with all the greatness of many, many things on the RPI campus, and all the attention to so many facets of student life, intramural sports is sadly neglected. I give as an example, intramural soccer. There are no referees, which is alright in itself, as most teams can play fair and honor like. However, there is no supervision of any sort for the league and consequently it is a sham. For example, the league is broken into four divisions, A,B,C and D -- A being the hardest and D the easiest. Quite often the D league is loaded by sandbaggers and ever more troubling is that some teams will play in all four leagues to increase their chances of winning. What is the point in league separation if teams are just going to play wherever they wish?

Chris Mathews and MSNBC Suck

Please visit this link: http://americablog.blogspot.com/. Apparently Chris Mathews has labeled anyone who is a critic of the Bush administration as a terrorist comparable to Osama Bin Laden.

Were the major media outlets nothing more than a propaganda organization for the Bush administration, this behavior would not go unpunished. Don't let it.