CV and mad panic behaviour

[Baggers]

Cry me a river Baggers.

Arrogance? Condescension?

Kruddler's a big boy.

Play the ball you suggest.

I did.

:-*

[kruddler]

Couldn't give a stuff ... Pluto is a planet.  EOS

lol.....i've never met someone so passionate about something so meaningless to our existance.

So....what is a continent?

[capcom]

So....what is a continent?

We are

[kruddler]

We are

Do 'we' include New Zealand?

What defines a continent?
What can you say is common about all known continents??

[capcom]

We're not a bloody island.  Come up with your own definitions  8)  OUT of here

[kruddler]

We're not a bloody island.  Come up with your own definitions  8)  OUT of here

I honestly had no idea of this when i posed the question. Freaky.
https://www.india.com/viral/zealandia-is...a-1845982/

ZEALANDIA is Earth’s eighth new continent! Scientists discover 5million square kilometer landmass east of Australia

Point i am making is this, there is no definition of a continent. You just 'know' what the are.
Same with planets. There was no definition of one. You just 'knew' what they were.

Science doesn't work like that.

You need to be able to tell someone the criteria, and then they should be able to work out what fits it. If they come up with the same planets/continents, huzzah.

However, You can not tell them the answer and ask them the question, its not jeopardy.

[DJC]

It was a planet before there was an actual definition of what a planet was.

Once they finally decided to define what a planet was, Pluto didn't fit the bill.

There are actually bigger rocks in the asteroid belt than pluto, and would fit the bill of being a planet moreso than what pluto does.

So do you change the criteria to fit pluto in......and let in potentially hundreds more? Or do you downgrade Pluto to a 'dwarf planet' so all those plutonites can still feel warm and fuzzy.

As an aside....what is a continent?
I'm sure you know all of the continents, but what is the definition of one? Is there an actual scientific definition of one?

Continents?  I seem to recall that we had a run in about that some time ago 

My oldest brother is an astronomer and he was over the moon when Pluto lost its status as a planet.  I think that his point of view was that it should never have been considered as a planet in the first place.

I haven’t really kept up with the debate but I think that the large asteroid known as Pluto has been reinstated as a planet.  I’m sure that the folk who make these decisions know a hell of a lot more than me and I’m more than happy to accept the results of their analyses.

The same reasoning has me on board with the best scientific analysis of COVID-19; I’ll take Norman Swan’s assessment as being as good as you can get.  At the other end of the scale, Andrew Blot’s ravings are as meaningful as Collingwood and Essendon supporters debating the meaning of life.  Sadly, the state of emergency powers don’t enable charges of sedition to be laid against Blot  >

[kruddler]

'Dwarf' planet.

[Thryleon]

The definition of a planet is one that has been able to clear its orbit of other bodies.

This is a cracking analogous debate meanwhile.  The status of the solar system and Pluto is only modified in name and interpretation.

Likewise covid19.  Where you sit on its threat is entirely subjective unless you take andrews approach.  His isnt subjective.  He has taken actions to Prevent the spread of a disease without worrying too much about the data regarding how bad it could be and worried solely about trying to shut it down.

Whether or not we should be doing that is an entirely different debate.

[kruddler]

The definition of a planet is one that has been able to clear its orbit of other bodies.

That is 1 of the criteria, and specifically the one that Pluto fails. Its 'moon' charon is half its size.