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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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23. If he finds the long hypothesized Planet X I don't doubt that is true.
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 12:39 PM
Nov 2016

as "Pluto Killer" though I'm not sure, not very many scholarly debates find their way into popular history. What was the last one? Keynes vs. Hayek?

This is the fifth time we've discovered Planet Nine bananas Oct 2016 #1
Call it something else, Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #2
How about Planet 9.02? JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2016 #4
No, giving Pluto some sort of special status just because that's what people learned in school Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #10
This issue left science behind and devolved into a dick measuring contest a long time ago Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #12
Well, that's the whole point. If Pluto is categorized as a "planet", we have thousands of planets Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #13
We don't know there are thousands of objects like Pluto Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #15
No, Eris is NOT a "cluster of pixels" Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #16
Well if you have better observations than Hubble's please share them with everyone Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #17
Im sure Mike Brown would be able to explain in detail why our knowledge of Eris's mass etc Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #18
Huh? Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #19
Until pretty recently, Pluto was "just a few barely observed pixels", too Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #20
I'm not discarding anything, I want to know more. Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2016 #21
it is true that until 2006, "Planet" had no commonly accepted definition. Warren DeMontague Oct 2016 #22
If he finds the long hypothesized Planet X I don't doubt that is true. Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2016 #23
Eris is at least as significant a discovery as Pluto. Warren DeMontague Nov 2016 #27
The only person who was talking down the discovery of Eris was Mike Brown himself Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2016 #29
Let me know when we've reached the 8th dimension. TeamPooka Oct 2016 #3
I went to a party last night PJMcK Oct 2016 #6
Buckaroo Banzai knows TeamPooka Oct 2016 #7
Some string theorists are up to 26 dimensions now! Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2016 #14
When are we going? Orrex Oct 2016 #5
What's that watermelon doing there? TeamPooka Oct 2016 #8
The most important thing... Orrex Oct 2016 #9
Planet 9 from Outer Space pinboy3niner Oct 2016 #11
Planet X is Planet 10, Planet IX is Planet 9 bananas Nov 2016 #25
Planet X is Planet X Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2016 #31
I know! Let's send our greatest Astronaut there to explore: Donald Trump! lindysalsagal Nov 2016 #26
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