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lonelypond wrote:

Also, Pluto should run for office now that's it out of the planet gig; Team Pluto a large collection of people.

Would that be a Plutocracy?

Artist description is AWESOME!

Thanks again to the wonderful woot writer for being the silver lining on a Ramyb shirt.

I really liked this shirt when I saw it in the derby, I was always a space nerd as a kid (I still dream about being an astronaut >.>) I like the color combination and the pop of the colors on the black shirt. This shirt is proof that Ramy can do things other than cute animals well.

back when I went to school everything revolved around earth. Who decided the Sun was supposed to be in the middle?

Suck it up, Pluto. The IAU was very clear on this. To be a planet, you must meet these three conditions:

1.The object must be in orbit around the Sun.
2.The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.
3.It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

You didn't meet condition #3, so you can't be a planet. End of story. Stop whining. Get out there and try harder, and if you get your act in gear, then you can reapply next year.

(love the shirt)

Those scissors are a safety hazard.

well if pluto is no longer considered a planet by the world then i claim it for myself. when the technology is advanced enough to reach pluto i shall have them unfreeze my body and lead a small group of dedicated followers to the little blue planet and settle it with me as Governor.

it will be the greatest planet of all time and all the other planets will be jealous, they will ask to join our merry group, but we will decline politely but firmly.

the might argue, saying that it was their ancestors who made the mistake of ignoring the little guy, but nonetheless they will be forbidden.

so who will in the woot community will join me in wootopia? speak now or forever be doomed to live in uranus!

Darquis wrote:I wasn't aware this was science fair: five years ago. Are kids really not aware Pluto isn't a planet anymore?

I was kind of thinking the same thing: cool shirt, dated topic.

All I see is a perpetual motion pendulum clicking back..and forth, and then mean ol' Uranus budging in line and cutting Pluto's string...sending it bouncing off into oblivious.

Uranus is cruel. Neptune's alright though.

Great pool parties.

adgart wrote:Suck it up, Pluto. The IAU was very clear on this. To be a planet, you must meet these three conditions:

1.The object must be in orbit around the Sun.
2.The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.
3.It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

You didn't meet condition #3, so you can't be a planet. End of story. Stop whining. Get out there and try harder, and if you get your act in gear, then you can reapply next year.

(love the shirt)

Hey, by that definition Neptune isn't a planet either. It didn't clear Pluto from it's orbit.

I was in Prague, outside the building, the day they decided Pluto wasn't a planet. : (

I just happened to be there, and asked all the scientist-looking type walking in with visitor badges what was going on.

This shirt is such an excellent use of empty space (no pun intended, of course).

jmmbell1987 snarls,

Out of curiosity, was my snarl of the courageous or insane variety?

It's okay Pluto, I'm not a planet either.

godmadesky wrote:Wear this shirt when watching Brian Regan:

The big yellow one!

and this

Pluto.

Man, you beat me to the Brian Regan joke! It's the first thing I thought of. Love me some Brian Regan!

I don't generally pay attention to the map so my sample size isn't that great, but this is the brightest I've ever seen the entire west coast with respect to the east coast.

There's a joke in there about the Earth rotating in the wrong direction, but I'm either not clever enough to word it in a funny way or it's so Sirius GPP my brain won't consider it.

Every shirt design done akin to planets always showcases Pluto as the outcast, poor Pluto.

I've noticed Pluto is a big money maker these days. How many shirts have we had in the last few months with the solar system and Pluto thrown off in the corner or something?

Note to self: To make a winning shirt, just make a dejected Pluto, and shove it somewhere on there. Everyone will buy it to show others their hip understanding of being rejected, just as Pluto was.

Craigmar wrote:It reminds me of my vasectomy. Yes, they were blue and as big as Pluto.

You have my vote for worst comment EVER! Con-grats!

The fact that they aren't in order bothers me

Can Woot supply a piece of tape for those of us that still think Pluto's a planet?

I'm just gonna put this out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9Y-1OyBao

sparrowhawk69 wrote:Hey, by that definition Neptune isn't a planet either. It didn't clear Pluto from it's orbit.

"Clearing the neighborhood" doesn't require getting rid of every bit of cosmic debris. But the eight remaining planets -- Neptune included -- each contain a sizeable majority of the mass in their orbits. Pluto doesn't come close.

sykotek wrote:Its woot time!!
*...goes to shirt.woot!*

D:

*reads artist profile*
"What can you say about a shirt designer like good old Ramyb? WHOA HEY WHOA DO YOU KISS YOUR MOTHER WITH THAT MOUTH?"

:D lol

This shirt is meh, in for none. Looking forward to tomorrows shirt, hopefully its CATerpillar!

I pretty much had the exact same reaction, lulz

sparrowhawk69 wrote:Hey, by that definition Neptune isn't a planet either. It didn't clear Pluto from it's orbit.

According to that logic, neither is Earth.

My first shirt woot! This will be fun during my astronomy unit next year...my seventh-graders will get a kick out of it.

tsfisch wrote:I was kind of thinking the same thing: cool shirt, dated topic.

Wait until June of 2015 - Pluto will be a HUGE topic again ;)
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_23_prt.htm

adgart wrote:Suck it up, Pluto. The IAU was very clear on this. To be a planet, you must meet these three conditions:

1.The object must be in orbit around the Sun.
2.The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.
3.It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

I must object to #1, under the grounds that, under that strict definition, Jupiter is not a planet, as it does not orbit the Sun, but the center of gravity between the two which lies outside the Sun proper.

I therefor demand we redefine our solar system as a binary system and Jupiter be classified as a "MEGA PLANET" as it's too awesome to be grouped with the rest of us puny little planets

Assassin15 wrote:Wait what the...... why are there 9 planets not including Pluto? Did a planet get added without my knowing?

In the words of Brian Regan ~" The big yellow one is the sun"

I call monster foul!
This is almost an exact replica of the solar system model I made in the fourth grade!

...how did you find pictures from my fourth grade project, ramyb? How!?!

This is too much for one week. Pluto is not a planet? Thank goodness I have the weekend to recover from this news.

Pluto says: "Your mom thought I was big enough."

infinitezero wrote:Every shirt design done akin to planets always showcases Pluto as the outcast, poor Pluto.

Pluto is the Milhouse Van Houten of the solar system.

wissa wrote:Those scissors are a safety hazard.

So... no running while wearing this shirt?

What everybody has failed to mention is that even though Pluto is not considered a planet it's still out there. It hasn't disappeared.

My father got an encyclopedia set when he was a kid. When I was growing up, he said that it was great to have because I could use it to do reports for school, because, for example, George Washington hadn't done anything interest since the encyclopedia was published. So in sixth grade, I needed to do a report on a planet, and I picked Pluto. Went home and opened up the "P" volume and... my father was born in 1922, and got the books when he was seven years old. Eight planets. But you know, you wait long enough and some of these things clear themselves up...

The real reason for declassifying Pluto is that there are hundreds of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) that are so similar to Pluto that either they're ALL planets (as well as some of the larger asteroids) or Pluto can't be one. Since there was no official definition of a planet up to this point, it was easiest to just set up the official definition to exclude Pluto.

ngjohn wrote:I must object to #1, under the grounds that, under that strict definition, Jupiter is not a planet, as it does not orbit the Sun, but the center of gravity between the two which lies outside the Sun proper.

I therefor demand we redefine our solar system as a binary system and Jupiter be classified as a "MEGA PLANET"...

Any given pair of objects orbits a point somewhere between their centers of mass. The Sun-Jupiter barycenter is just above the Sun's surface, so by any reasonable definition Jupiter orbits the Sun.

In any case the barycenter being inside one or the other object is not in any way necessary to define something as a planet. There's no megaplanet grouping; everything is either a planet or a star (or a sub-planetary body of one sort or another). Since Jupiter doesn't have gravitational fusion occuring in its core, it isn't a star, so that means it's a planet.

Anyway, consider the implications of your definition. The size limit for a "megaplanet" would vary depending on the density of the parent star. When the Sun expands into a red giant, Jupiter's barycenter would suddenly be inside it, requiring a reclassification. Then when the sun shrinks to a dense white dwarf, Saturn and most of the other gas giants would suddenly have external barycenters too, and all abruptly become megaplanets. There's no need for the complication.

Oh, by the way, listen to "I'm your moon" by Jonathan Coulton -- a love song from Charon to Pluto, comforting her over the whole loss of status thing, and incredibly sweet for something that geeky.

Schaefer2d wrote:The fact that they aren't in order bothers me

came to say the same thing.