Thursday, August 24, 2006

Pluto loses its name from the planet list..

What !?!?! Pluto gone from the planet list ?Oh man!!!No more "Navagraham" ?
How do we call it.. "ashtagraham"..? If I tell that to my paati (Grandma) she would say "kashtakaalam"!
What do we do with the "pluto" God in the navagraha dieties ? Did he/she lost his/her power too ?
Btw, do you know, which God in tamil diety is for "pluto" ? I dont remember.. Hmm...

What to do with the geography books now, which has "9 planets of the universe.."
If theres a multiple choice, with how many planets on the universe, with both "8 and 9",what should we select ?
Well, I may not need to.. Poor kids.

If you feel its sad, that pluto is gone from the list, (Or feel a void) maybe we can start..
"Pluto - grahathai aadharippor sangam" (Group who support pluto as a planet).
Let me know, if you are interested. We can chat about, who is the best "Trisha" or "Asin" in the group meetings. (dont ask me what this has to do with Pluto..)

Maybe later in "Who wants to be a millionaire".. there could be a question,
"what was the planet, that was thrown away from the planets list of universe.."
"(A)Earth (B)Pluto (C)Mercury (D) Moon (!?!?)"(If I do happen to attend.. and if they do ask me that question and if I dont remember, you will be my friend to call choice..Do, remember this answer.. Ok ?

Btw, what are the other planets of the universe..
Actually, let me try.. Mercury venus earth mars pluto (Oops) what are the other four..?
Google.. Help me!
Well on the bright side.. one less planet to remember..or Im getting old.. or have alzeimers or have selective amnesia..

Is it really necessary to spend money on finding these things.. ?
I saw a movie last week, "Eight below".
The plot goes like this
"A scientist, travels to Antarctica, to get a stone fallen from the planet mercury (I think)For that he gets the help from a guide and eight dogs.. (Sledge dogs.. to transport them)Apparently, they can't fly (cannot land the plane) and cant drive there.And its the start of winter. During the journey, the dog saves the scientist twice. Due to the sudden storm, they had to evacuate. Since theres no space in the flight, they have to leave the dogs there, for the next trip.Obviously, due to storm there's no next trip. And the dogs are left on their own for 150+ daysin the winter, without any food. While the scientist, gets his applause for finding the stone.. blah blah blah.. The hero tries so hard to get back.. but couldn't. Eventually the scientist comes to his senses and helps the hero to save the dogs (already 2 dogs dead)". They show how the dogs struggle for food and to stay alive. But, people are spending millions to find one stone. I initially thought, that they would come to rescue, after a week or so.. But.. 150+ days.. Hmm.. poor things (I think, its based on a true story.. Im not sure though!)I

s it really necessary to spend money on finding these things.. ?
Well, then you can say "nothing is necessary in the world, except food and reproducing.. isnt it ?"
(Thats a totally different blog)

let me stop my rant & rave..
Peace everyone!

9 comments:

Suresh Sankaralingam said...

I've been reading a little about the planet/moon thingy... A planet's definition goes like this. If the center of mass between Sun and any of the objects around it lies within Sun, the object is a planet to Sun. In the case of Earth, the center of mass between earth and moon lies within earth. Thats how moon is defined withrespect to planets.

It has been observed that some of the moons (including our moon) moves away from the planet and might result in the center of mass to be outside earth, in which case a "moon" could become a planet. It has also been observed that some of the objects revolving around Sun get in and out of the planets reach and hence are partially planets and partially moons according to definition.

BrainWaves said...

Sattru mandhamana (200+ years to go around sun) Namathu iliangar aani (Size smallnallum..) thalaivar Pluto avargalai Planet katchi vittu thookinal..avar bayandhu vida maatar..

Avar Plutoons yendru 40 "kutti"galai serthu kondu thani katchi arambikirar yendru perumaiyodu solli kolukiren...

Vazhga Pluto!

nourish-n-cherish said...

MAN....I was going to blog this, but you did it remarkably well! Yep.....I really feel bad about Pluto - I really liked that guy (least of the reasons being is shares a name of a Disney character!)

Anyhow, that's one less planet to teach Keenu I guess.

Meera Manohar said...

Ashtagraham!? **LOL**

Good one Shanky...

Pluto paavam ):

nourish-n-cherish said...
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nourish-n-cherish said...

Brainwaves..........nice comment! Looks like Pluto is the God of Creativity!

Survivor said...

I found out that our Navagrahams ( the one you pray to ) does not have pluto as it was supposedly formed before the solar system evolved.It has Sun,Moon,Mercury,Jupiter,Saturn,Venus,Uranus,Rahu & Kethu . So,Indians may not miss Pluto after all.:-)

Suresh Sankaralingam said...

Senorita, there is no Uranus.. Instead, it should be Mars..:)

Survivor said...

Oui Senor ! merci...