Pluto

[on:]

in the episode about poplers fishy joe claims that he owns a fast food franchise on every planet exept mc pluto

but pluto has recently been un-planeted?
well its not a planet anymore....

not to say that the makers of futurama could have forseen this but still humourous non the less.

i thought it was funny anyway. 

[Reply #1 on:]

in the future they could have made it a planet again for studying it more closly

so it could still be a planet in the future

[Reply #2 on:]

Pluto and McPluto are obviously not the same planets, since at no point is the planet on which Birdbot of Icecatraz takes place is at any point referred to as McPluto.

[Reply #3 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nixorbo:
Pluto and McPluto are obviously not the same planets, since at no point is the planet on which Birdbot of Icecatraz takes place is at any point referred to as McPluto.

That is exactly what I was gonna say. GET OUT OF MY HEAD DAMN YOU! No I'm just kidding your alright.

[Reply #4 on:]

The 'planet' designation is still very much up in the air. There's some who reckon largish moons with atmospheres ought to be regarded as planets.

Personally I say a rose by any other classification system would be equally pointless.

It's a fair bet that in a thousand years of scientific in-fighting terinologies and classifications will change time and time again, but a world's a world.

[Reply #5 on:]

The Pluto on the Birdman of Icecatraz episode was  snowny winter wonderland.  Too bad McPluto was never explained.  Maybe it was a resturant. 

[Reply #6 on:]

i think i would agree with Organazation14, they probably did want to study the planet more closely sometime in the future

[Reply #7 on:]

Thank you Zoidberg16, I respect you.

[Reply #8 on:]

And that respect isn't even worth a can of knock off Fresca...

[Reply #9 on:]

i know lol

[Reply #10 on:]

In Futurama, there are numerous planets with similar names, for instance omicron persei 1-9, and dog doo 1-7, so it's not too hard to believe that there's a pluto and a mcpluto

[Reply #11 on:]

Those are planets named after their star and numbered by distance from it. That's how planets are classified. Our solar system, for example, would consist of Sol 1-8/9. Our planets have proper names, however, because we give them precedence due to proximity.

[Reply #12 on:]

'Mc' is also Gaelic ancestral name meaning 'son of'. So McPluto, presumably, could mean 'Son of Pluto'.

Charon, perhaps? Nix? Hydra?

[Reply #13 on:]

Charon shouldn't be anyone's son technically.

I'm randomly going with Nix.

[Reply #14 on:]

Suck up. 

[Reply #15 on:]

 

Originally posted by Cleansingfire:
Charon shouldn't be anyone's son technically.

Charon is the son of Erebus and Nyx technically.

[Reply #16 on:]

Just goes to show ya... The gene pool has no lifeguards...

[Reply #17 on:]

Well, they were brother and sister.  What did you expect?

That sort of thing happened a lot in classical mythology, though.

[Reply #18 on:]

Norse Gods could kick Greek Gods' arses any day.

[Reply #19 on:]

 

Originally posted by David A:
Charon is the son of Erebus and Nyx technically.

Oh, if you're going to go mythology, sure. I was sticking to astronomy - Charon is more like Pluto's twin sibling than offspring. And yet not planetary enough to be the sun's son (no pun intended).

If you incorporate mythology the heavenly bodies have an all-too-bizarre relationship.

[Reply #20 on:]

Or maybe Ploto was a planet when the episode was made.

[Reply #21 on:]

It was Matts. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet. So it still is a planet... I guess. I'm too lazy too look up the defintition of a dwarf planet right now.

[Reply #22 on:]

Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
... I'm too lazy too look up the defintition of a dwarf planet right now.

Planet.

Dwarf Planet.

Or, if you're too lazy to follow the link,  a dwarf planet has these four attributes:

• Is in orbit around the Sun.
• Has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape.
• Has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
• Is not a satellite

I'll just ooze back under the lab door now...

[Reply #23 on:]

They can take away Pluto's Planetary designation when they pry it from my minus 230°C, dead hands.

[clicky]
Views of Pluto Through the Years

[Reply #24 on:]

McPluto was renamed Pluto in 3006.  It was re-designated a planet in the 28th century.

[Reply #25 on:]

Aw, winna's my favourite future history revisionist!

[Reply #26 on:]

You're too kind Jezzem.  I do enjoy revisionist history though!

[Reply #27 on:]

Winna's back!

[Reply #28 on:]

Yes he is, and he's been visiting #fc from time to time, too.

My bet is that the IAS will cave and restore Pluto's planethood before too many more years go by.  I'll bet one pint of beer.  Any takers?

[Reply #29 on:]

Pluto's status depends on who you ask.

[Reply #30 on:]

Pluto must become a planet again, so that the one we're chasing now will be christened Planet 10, fulfilling the destiny of Buckaroo Banzai.

[Reply #31 on:]

Pluto's status depends on who you ask.

I knew what this would be before I clicked it.

[Reply #32 on:]

Is it Rick Astley?

Did Tachyon actually mention Buckaroo Banzai?

[Reply #33 on:]

I did.  And now that I have the blu-ray I've been meaning to re-watch it.

And just yesterday I read of an analysis suggesting that Pluto has a sub-surface ocean!  Surely that, along with its tenuous atmosphere and apparent geologic activity (not tectonic), will convince the IAS to admit it back into the family of planets.

[Reply #34 on:]

Funny thing is for about fifty years the Solar System was said to have eleven planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres
, Vesta, Pallas, Juno, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.  SHORTLY avert the discovery of Neptune a whole bunch of asteroids were discovered at once and this lead to the recoginosation of a new species of object in the solar system.  This lead to the deassification of Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Juno as planets, though Ceres is now recognised as the only dwarf planet that is not a TNO. 

In other asteroid news I believe Nasa is launching a probe to explore the asteroid 16 Psyche.

[Reply #35 on:]

A dwarf planet is a planet.  It's right there in the name.

[Reply #36 on:]

A dwarf planet is a planet.  It's right there in the name.

It's an inaccurate name. There are no dwarves on any of the dwarf planets in the solar system. They should really be re-named planetary dwarves, rather than dwarf planets.

[Reply #37 on:]

I think if I ever run a Spelljammer game (which will probably be never) the dwarves will be from a dwarf planet.

It would actually make more sense for short and stocky dwarves to be heavy-worlders, but in Spelljammer a smaller planet doesn't have to have less gravity.  It's magic!

[Reply #38 on:]

A dwarf planet condensed from the detritus remaining after the merger of a magnetar and stellar-mass black hole might be small, but have a huge core of gold...resulting in its surface gravity being substantially greater than earth-normal.

[Reply #39 on:]

And the dwarves would live there mining the gold.  See, it all makes sense.