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Other  bodies have been discovered that are bigger than Pluto and nobody was eager to label them as new planets, except, perhaps those who discovered them.
 
Other  bodies have been discovered that are bigger than Pluto and nobody was eager to label them as new planets, except, perhaps those who discovered them.
  
So, screw you, Pluto. People finally came to their senses and now the record has been set straight.
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So, screw you, Pluto lovers. People finally came to their senses and now the record has been set straight.
  
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==

Revision as of 16:42, 9 March 2014


Great Nerds

Nerd vs. Geek

A Geek is a minor Nerd. There is a significant overlap in traits, but the differences are significant enough to motivate a separate category. An analogy based on biological XXX would be the distinction between monotremes, marsupials, and mammals. All are mammals. Marsupials are weird mammals who took placental birth and made is even more freaky. Monotremes are just barely mammals and we are sort of giving them a pass just to be nice. It's like they got off the track early on in mammal evolution and never really caught up.

Pluto was never a planet

Even as a child I knew Pluto wasn't a planet. It was clearly a mistake, or rather an oversight in nomenclature where the minimum requirements for entry had not been fully considered.

It's orbit is so elliptical that is crosses inside the orbit of Neptune.

It doesn't even orbit in the same plane as the rest of the planets.

It's smaller than some moons of real planets.

It's more water than rock (though, I don't think this was known when I was a kid, and certainly not when it was discovered.)

Other bodies have been discovered that are bigger than Pluto and nobody was eager to label them as new planets, except, perhaps those who discovered them.

So, screw you, Pluto lovers. People finally came to their senses and now the record has been set straight.

Notes

Latin is the nerdiest of languages, so a Latin title was chosen in keeping with the theme . Latin Transliteration: Nerd is not of Latin origin. When Latinizing a phrase with non-Latin words you have some freedom to choose gender for the loan word. Latin has three gender: masculine, feminine, and neuter. One does not need to contemplate long to conclude which gender to assign nerd in Latin. Neuter. It should be neuter! The plural of a neuter noun takes a feminine ending, so Magna Nerda translates back to English as Great Nerds; although, one might understandably consider The Great Female Nerd as a possible translation if you were not sure of the gender of Nerd.

List of Nerds, unsorted

Ron Soyland of Tubecrafter

Tatjana J. van Vark

Oona Räisänen