The Starmaker wrote:
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> The Starmaker wrote:
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> > The Starmaker wrote:
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> > > The Starmaker wrote:
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> > > > The Starmaker wrote:
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> > > > > Richard Hertz wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 8:02:27 PM UTC-3, Michael Moroney wrote:
> > > > > > > On 4/20/2022 2:17 PM, Richard Hertz wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 2:54:28 PM UTC-3, The Starmaker wrote:
> > > > > > > >> The Starmaker wrote:
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> Richard Hertz wrote:
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > >>>> Officially, according with the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the Solar System comprises:
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> Not according with the International Astronomical Union (IAU)...
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> All of it's members (IAU) do not agree with with findings of the
> > > > > > > >>> International Astronomical Union (IAU).
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> Those members (IAU) who disagree are not allowed to vote on the
> > > > > > > >>> findings, so the findings are fraudalent.
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> It is one or two that make the findings at the International
> > > > > > > >>> Astronomical Union (IAU).
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> The votes are rigged.
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> In otherwords, whatever the big guy sez ...goes.
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> It's a garbage union. Anything that comes out of it is...garbage, and
> > > > > > > >>> belongs in the trash can.
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> you should know dis by now.
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> There is no one here that would disagree with that (including all of the
> > > > > > > >>> IAU members, except the big guy.)
> > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > >>> In the Italian Mafia, if the members disagree with the big guy...they
> > > > > > > >>> kill him.
> > > > > > > >> The question you should be asking is not what happened to the fifth
> > > > > > > >> planet....but what happened to the nineth planet? (if you dare)
> > > > > > > >> --
> > > > > > > >> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> > > > > > > >> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> > > > > > > >> and challenge
> > > > > > > >> the unchallengeable.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Whit this criteria, Jupiter should not be demoted as a planet anymore. TheTrojan cloud, asteroids that occupy more than 20% of the
> > > > > > > > Jupiter’s orbital path, following the giant, should be enough reason.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > [snip meltdown]
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Let me guess. There are no planets other than Mercury and Venus, since
> > > > > > > all the other "planets" all have moons, so their orbits are not cleared
> > > > > > > of objects other than themselves.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Read my post, above, with detailed info directly from IAU database, imbecile.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's the Apr 20, 2022, 2:39:19 AM post (your local time, mine minus one hour).
> > > > >
> > > > > Jupiter not a planet?
> > > > >
> > > > > If they are going to use 'definitions' to define planet, then the Earth
> > > > > is not a planet...
> > > > > since there ain't anything like it anywhere in the universe.
> > > >
> > > > Truth is...the word "dwarf planets" was invented when they voted Pluto
> > > > not a planet. Before that, the term "dwarf planets" never existed.
> > > >
> > > > They just made it up.
> > >
> > > Hell, they made up everything!
> > >
> > > The vote took place at the August 2006 IAU meeting in Prague, which
> > > included 424 voting members (out of a total membership of 9,000). The
> > > majority vote was for Pluto to be redesignated as a dwarf planet
> > >
> > > "Pluto is not a planet," Brown said. "There are finally, officially,
> > > eight planets in the solar system."
> > >
> > > The vote involved just 424 astronomers who remained for the last day of
> > > a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague.
> > >
> > > "I'm embarassed for astornomy," said Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New
> > > Horizon's mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research
> > > Institute. "Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted."
> > >
> > > "This definition stinks, for technical reasons," Stern told SPACE.com.
> > >
> > > The vote was scheduled at the end of a 10 day conference in Prague when
> > > almost everyone had left. Only 424 of nearly 10,000 members remained.
> > >
> > > IAU President, Ronald d. Ekers, opened the session stating that the IAU
> > > was asked to act on the planet definition issue. He stressed that prior
> > > proposals were delayed because cultural and popular issues needed to be
> > > considered.
> > >
> > > Ekers stated that this was not just a scientific debate and that the
> > > issue cannot be resolved by science alone. "This is not just a
> > > scientific issue of what is correct. There is no correct answer to this
> > > question."
> > >
> > > "The question is; what is a sensible compromise that will not just work
> > > for the professionals in the field but will work for everybody who is
> > > interested the sky, the planets, is curious, is educating and so on."
> > >
> > > After Mr. Ekers and a panel member read two overwhelmingly positive and
> > > zero dissenting messages from colleagues on the pending resolutions he
> > > called for a show of hands however; 15 IAU members stepped forward to
> > > speak. The first 14 speakers were dissenting, and generally cut off by
> > > Mr. Ekers. The contentious and angry dissention included voters "not
> > > being properly consulted" and receiving the changed resolutions "just
> > > now as entering the session."
> > >
> > > The response from Ekers; "the last step of the proposals was done in
> > > secret to keep them from the press." It seems that a lot of people were
> > > interested in this outcome and were getting in the way of the desired
> > > outcome of the rogue scientists.
> > >
> > > These IAU members strongly dissented stating that the decision to vote
> > > was rushed, more debate needs to take place, the vote should be
> > > postponed and that "what was being presented was an insult to the entire
> > > astronomical institution."
> > >
> > > The 15th and final speaker was recognized and stated that he was no
> > > scientist but that he wanted to say that the committee was doing a great
> > > job.
> > >
> > > A movement by prominent scientists to meet mid-2007 to organize an
> > > electronic vote by the full membership did not succeed.
> > >
> > > IAU President, Ronald d. Ekers is the motherfucker. A crank.
> >
> > Of course, IAU President, Ronald d. Ekers doesn't want electronic voting...
> >
> > https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81m1ZFcggzL._AC_SL1000_.jpg
>
> A movement by prominent scientists to organize an electronic vote by the full membership did not succeed not
> because they weren't smart enough, but simply they weren't...tough enough.
>
> There is only one way to handle a union boss IAU President, Ronald d. Ekers..
>
> Where's Hoffa?

So, if you ask IAU President, Ronald d. Ekers 'what is the definition of a planet' he's tell you...

"There is no correct answer to this question."

Translation: "GO FUCK YOURSELF!"

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> --
> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge
> the unchallengeable.

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The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge
the unchallengeable.