/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15220636
Agreed, the justifications they tried to use for it were arbitrary and the people who'd built an attachment to it thus thought it was complete bullshit, but ultimately you have to draw a line somewhere, and Pluto ultimately shares a lot more in common with objects like Haumea, Makemake and Eris than it does objects like Mercury or Mars

>>14520498
I'm not all that interested in sci-fi because it's all a big stupid fantasy. There's no competition between that and real human space exploration.

People seem to forget that not only was NASA poised to send astronauts to the planets in the 1970s using nothing but Saturn V, but also that our Solar System is full of worlds just waiting to be explored if only we build the spacecraft to do it. You don't need some fantasy bullshit FTL interstellar nonsense.

I myself have seen 19 of the worlds in our Solar System with my own eyes using nothing but a pair of binoculars and an shitty old telescope. I was able to up that count to 22 using a better telescope at the local planetarium. The reality is way better than fantasy.