Pluto

How about this thread gets merged with the other one in Off-Topic?

Oh, and it woul be kinda cool to have the planet Pluto in the game
A class 0 rock that you have to zoom in just to see

if pluto is a planet then we will have dozens of planets.. plutos orbit is not stable & that one of the reasons it was canned.. They made the right choice 100%

I could not care less whether Pluto is a planet or not   

First and foremost I may need a definition or a rule set on "Game Talk" and "Off Topic"

Maybe the crew at Stardock. To commemorate Pluto by making it a planet in the game.

I thought this put it into context as being game related. I am constantly viewing posts about how people want this or that in the game, or would like this changed or that changed. If it is not in the game we should not talk about it? Therefore it should not go in the "Game Talk" forum.... Is this correct? So the 100s of posts of people wanting Carriers should actually be placed in the off topic category? I am so confused, so please forgive me for posting this in what I thought was the correct forum. I stand corrected.

A class 0 rock that you have to zoom in just to see

Secondly, the actual game scale of planets in GalCiv2 is obviously incorrect. Therefore, technically, feasibly, reasonably, Pluto could be made a planet in the Terran solar system just as small as the already existing (tiny) planets in the game.

Oh, and it would be kinda cool to have the planet Pluto in the game

Lastly, No need for Sarcasm. I thought it would be cool to commemorate Pluto as a planet in the game, since it has been a spoken of, taught in schools, and known by countless millions as a planet in our solar system, for over 76 Years. Name another non - planet (stars excluded) that is as well known.

It would be a pretty cool headline in a press. "Small Gaming Company Commemorates Pluto."

Gah... Why am I wasting my time.

I really do not care what the astronomers say....... PLUTO IS A PLANET!!!!!

I thought that Pluto was a dog...?

Haha... He is.... but is Goofy?

Edit: Wow... This post must be the most traveled post of all time!!! Goes from " Game Talk " To " Off Topic " to " Ideas " just about as fast as I am posting my replys. Who is making my head spin????

LOL.

Haha... He is.... but is Goofy?

....nah Goofy is just the theme of your post

Name another non - planet (stars excluded) that is as well known.

Halies Comet is well known. One of the reasons that Pluto is no longer a planet is that scientists think Pluto is just a giant comet.

Not as Goofy as some of the other posts on these forums....
and besides, I said.....

I really do not care what the astronomers say.......

not....

I really do not care what Disney says......

Pay attention my young pupil and you may yet learn.

Remember... it is not the fall that kills you, its that sudden stop at the end.

i hate to say this but the astronomers are still calling it a planet

new classifaction is dwarf PLANET

i figuared it out yesterday the earth has been around for 4 billion years

assuming that they both formed at the same time pluto has only been around for 16 million years (for those of you who cant figuare that out it is the number of times that pluto has been able to orbit the sun

I kinda liked Pluto as a planet. Eight planets just doesn't sound right. Oh well.

Gah...

new classifaction is dwarf PLANET

I just heard that on the news... was about to post it... You are so right. Ah well, guess I am going to have to go back to saving the whales or trees or something.

Wait a second, dwarf? Kind of politically incorrect you think?
(Thats a joke guys and gals)

Thanks for the posts guys it was fun    

Waste of money and time.

These enlightened astronomers could have used their precious genius and time doing something more productive, like funding Nasa to help build better shuttles and landers so we can get to the moon again. It's been 40 years since we've been there.

Pluto has been considered a planet for 70 some odd years, and known as such by billions of people. But a group of smart people decided we are now wron it is no longer a planet.

The definition of a dwarf planet is this: It must be round. That's it, they spent weeks deciding this. OMGWTF it doesn't go in a perfect circle around our sun, if we go to other solar systems, theirs may look just as wonky and not perfect like this big headed genius astronomers.

That's my 2 cents.

Pluto is still a planet to me, I didn't go through 12 years of school and be taught it was a planet to have it be changed by a group of time wasting morons.

has to be round becouse of gravity

oh and so far of all of the solar systems that they know about ours is the only orderly one

like example the gas giant that runs in as close as mercury and out as far as jupiter and is twice as massive as jupiter i think it may be bigger

"Pluto is still a planet to me, I didn't go through 12 years of school and be taught it was a planet to have it be changed by a group of time wasting morons."

Thankyou JKnight1, I was thinking the same thing. It has been the NINTH PLANET FOR HOW LONG? Like through the 50's,60s, 70's, 80's, 90's, and early 2000. Couldn't they just leave it alone and just give it the title? CMON!, it was found in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, they could of at least mercifully left it as a novelty planet.

**sigh**

Astronomers have always had a problem calling Pluto a planet. "Unusually large round asteroid" is just a lousy name for it. They finally got around to giving it a classification besides asteroid, comet, or planet. The Kuiper belt that Pluto borders actually has a lot of big asteroids, but Pluto is the only one they've discovered so far that's really too big to call one.

These enlightened astronomers could have used their precious genius and time doing something more productive

The definition of a dwarf planet is this: It must be round. That's it, they spent weeks deciding this. OMGWTF

changed by a group of time wasting morons.

ROFLMAO

Not to mention the cash flow it will require companies, schools, and goverments just to change the wording in the astronomy books, history books, and others, to Dwarf Planet.

A bunch of dope smoking alcholics trying to make names for themselves, if you ask me.

The Kuiper belt that Pluto borders actually has a lot of big asteroids, but Pluto is the only one they've discovered so far that's really too big to call one

you forget xena

oh and for an asteroid pluto is weird it has three moons so far

Pluto is not one of the big 8, because its irregular shaped (not a perfect sphere), its not big enough and it is not in control of its orbit around the sun.

The mistake was made in the 1930's when they called it a planet, it's just took 80 yrs to correct that mistake.

Go save the whales or campaign for the environment or something...

Who is to say that it was a mistake? The scientist who made the discovery of an asteroid/comet/whatever else you want to call it, with satellites which orbit it? The new dope smoking alcoholic astronomers who want to make a name for themselves? Let me get this straight... because a planet is different, in one way, shape, fashion, form, or orbit, it will no longer be considered a planet?
So now since it is small and it's orbit is a little off.. we call it a dwarf planet... to ummm... correct a mistake that "someone" says was made in the 1930's?

What about "it is not a planet", the mistake that they made oh.... just a week or so ago that they corrected a day or so ago? Now its a Dwarf Planet......

Freakin Please

Make up my mind already.

correct a mistake that "someone" says was made in the 1930's?

When Pluto was first discovered, it was believed to be larger than it actually is. Around Earth-sized, if memory serves me correctly. It was only after the discovery of Charon that the true size of the rock could be determined. So yes, they are correcting a mistake.

Simply put, if Pluto is a central planet of this system, there are dozens, probably hundreds, and possibly THOUSANDS of other "planets" as well.

One thing youve forgot! There are 3 possible new planets that might be counted as one!

Ceres (between earth and mars), a planet behind pluto, and one planet even further behind that

there is one more body that should be counted as a dwarf planet

that is the moon

if you took the earth out of the picture the path that the moon follows around the sun would not change at all

the moons current orbit around the sun is perfect it does not move toward or away from the sun so lets reclassify it as a dwarf planet it is after all bigger than pluto

because a planet is different, in one way, shape, fashion, form, or orbit, it will no longer be considered a planet

Oh no! Political correctness gone mad!  

Pluto's a lump of rock and ice. It's totally not bothered what anyone calls it. It's not got 'feelings' u know.      

Do gravity have to make celestial bodies round?