Dozens of protestors walked Greenwood Avenue Saturday afternoon for the annual Pluto is a Planet protest. The rally started at Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co., went down Greenwood Avenue several blocks, then crossed over and back down to Neptune Coffee.
We weren’t able to make it, but Examiner.com has a nice write-up with a slideshow of pictures. My favorite picture is number eight, with the kid holding the sign reading, “Pluto is more of a planet than Uranus will ever be!”
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1 Laurel Kornfeld // Mar 16, 2010 at 9:59 am
I wish I could have attended the rally in Seattle, but it’s on the other side of the country from where I live. The controversial demotion of Pluto was done by only four percent of the IAU, most of whom are not planetary scientists, and was opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers in a formal petition led by New Horizons Principal Investigator Dr. Alan Stern. Science and knowledge are not about blindly following so-called experts. They are about thinking for oneself, and any good textbook on the solar system should promote that by making it clear that there are two competing views on the status of Pluto and other dwarf planets, both equally legitimate.
2 seattle mike // Mar 16, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Um, the sign actually says ““Pluto is more of a planet than Uranus will ever be!” Not “your Uranus”. You messed up the punchline.
3 Mariette // Mar 16, 2010 at 7:31 pm
That’s my Dave! I wonder where he gets it from
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