Comments on: Politics of Pluto http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3927 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jim Clarke http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3927&cpage=1#comment-5645 Jim Clarke Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:34:25 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3927#comment-5645 What a wonderful world we live in when a large group of people can gather from all over the world to discuss what we should call a snowball some 2 billion 800 million miles from Earth, and then have a lot more people spend time and money protesting this change in nomenclature. It seems the more affluent we become, the more likely we are to spend time and effort on things that just don't really matter; like Pluto and the Kyoto Protocol. What a wonderful world we live in when a large group of people can gather from all over the world to discuss what we should call a snowball some 2 billion 800 million miles from Earth, and then have a lot more people spend time and money protesting this change in nomenclature.

It seems the more affluent we become, the more likely we are to spend time and effort on things that just don’t really matter; like Pluto and the Kyoto Protocol.

]]> By: coby http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3927&cpage=1#comment-5644 coby Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:50:47 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3927#comment-5644 A rose by any other name, and all that... A rose by any other name, and all that…

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