Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>> What I don't understand is why they couldn't just say
>> "here are the new rules and Pluto gets grandfathered in as
>> an exception..."???
> 
> Can you imagine how some people might use that as a precedent?
> It's science, not democracy!  Oh, wait -- they voted on this,
> didn't they?  Well, anyway...
> 
> E.g., Living things evolve, but humans were "created" (whatever
> that means in this context of no context) and are grandfathered
> in as an exception.
>
And there's a precedent: Ceres was once a planet, then it
was downgraded to a planetoid, and there were only 7 planets
[it was after Uranus but before Neptune and Pluto]

Alberto Monteiro

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