# 'Amazing' NASA announcement re Pluto. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914 "2015-10-08T12:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/21 "2015-10-08T19:48:41Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > It is indeed a remarkably active and interesting place for something so incredibly cold. Much like my soul. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/22 "2015-10-08T19:50:25Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Contact with Pilinixi the dexitroboper? He’s busy emfoozling. Clear ether, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/23 "2015-10-08T19:52:55Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > He’s busy emfoozling. > > Clear ether, > Shodan That’s emmfozing, you zwilnik! No catlats for you! [sub]And I _think_ Pilinixi is female this cycle.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/24 "2015-10-08T19:55:02Z")
nm, weird duplicate ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/25 "2015-10-08T20:01:10Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > That’s emmfozing, you zwilnik! No catlats for you! > > [sub]And I _think_ Pilinixi is female this cycle.[/sub] :dubious: Physician, heal thyself. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/26 "2015-10-08T20:01:26Z")
I knew I could count on you. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/27 "2015-10-09T12:10:20Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I knew I could count on you. I also do barmitzvahs and children’s parties. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/28 "2015-10-09T12:18:26Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > NASA is starting to remind me of Col. Sanders from Spaceballs. Stop making an announcement that you are going to make an announcement. Just make the damn announcement. We live in the digital age now, we don’t need time to prepare and gather the neighbors around the picture box, anymore we are able to receive info at any time. > > That being said, I’d can’t wait to see what they found out. > [@Mikeisskeptical](#): > > Dammit. NASA have apparently tweeted that the rumours of a big announcement are false. Apparently it all came from people misinterpreting comments made by Dr Stern during a speech. ☹ Even in the future nothing works! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/29 "2015-10-09T12:20:31Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Even in the future nothing works! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/30 "2015-10-10T05:41:16Z")
I think the announce you will announce thing works well. It got us talking about it. And yet no one seems to care about the actual news–blue skies and ice. It’s not all that unexpected to me. The gas giants have cores of solid (really hot) ice. Water is just rather common. It’s probably a bigger deal to scientists, because there’s some reason they didn’t expect this. Or they did, but only if something else was also true. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/31 "2015-10-10T05:55:16Z")
Haters gonna hate. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/32 "2015-10-10T06:25:19Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Much like my soul. That’s beautiful. And great username/post combo. Also I yucked at picture box. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914/33 "2015-10-10T07:52:14Z")
I was hoping they would tell us it had hatched. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-nasa-announcement-re-pluto/733914.md?page=1)