Ah, Internets
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[ May 3rd, 2009 ]
[ by: Alvan ]
<Dilithium> ok guys, no googling, what are the 7 continents?
<negationix> pangea
<negationix> rest is modern humbug
<Alvan> finland and lots of our suburbia
<negationix> pangea and Finland and suburbs of Finland and pellucidar
<negationix> that’s 4
<ryuu> antartic makes 5
<ryuu> I’ve seen him, I know he exists
<Alvan> I think Pluto is one, now that it’s no-longer a planet
<negationix> makes sense
<negationix> I saw wikipedia article about pluto, “pluto, just a rock”
<negationix> and we all know continents are usually made of rock
<negationix> (except maybe antartic)
<ryuu> I think Abe Vigoda is one
<ryuu> no wait, that was incontinent
<Alvan> well, everything abe’s not must be a continent
<Alvan> so that’s 7
<negationix> yeah
<negationix> so that’s pangea, finland, finland’s suburbs, pellucidar, antartic, pluto and not abe vigoda
<Alvan> do we win a prize?
May 8th, 2009 at 08:25
Pluto IS still a planet. Only four percent of the International Astronomical Union voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. Stern and like-minded scientists favor a broad planet definition that includes any non-self-luminous spheroidal body orbiting a star. This debate is far from over.