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]
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