Scientists still seem to not be sure what a planet is, wondering what’s too small to be a planet and what’s too large and is actually a star. I can’t help but think how Captain Kirk never had that problem. He knew exactly what planets were and he was like, “I’m going to go down to the planet, and if I see any aliens, I’m going to judo chop them!” And then Spock would be like, “That’s highly illogical.” And Kirk would be like, “Damn your Vulcan logic!” and then he’d rip his captain’s chair out of the ground and throw it at Spock.
NASA has a lot to learn from him.
The only reason they ever bothered to visit planets was so Kirk could make time with some space babes and so Spock could score some spores.
Captain Kirk was the coolest ever! We shall never see his like again! Hey, but he is from the future so maybe there is hope for change! Awww! Now I have a picture of an Obama Spock in my head and the whole thing is just ruined for me!
The chair thing sounds more like Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft. He was also heard to say to Bill Gates when Vista flopped: “It’s dead already. It’s not only dead, it’s brain is gone!” (I know – this has nothing to do with NASA but I couldn’t help it. “It’s dead, Jim.”)
I can see it now, having him as Planet Negotiator at the next IAU conference.
“Pluto is a planet!”
“WUss! Go lower…”
“Ceres?”
“Namby pamby.”
“Vesta?”
“NOW your NEGOTIATING!”
Off topic: Rep. Corrine Brown (D) would like to “graduate” Coach “Irvan Myers” and the Florida Gators on their national championship!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2uQ7Fg_Uk
I know we scientists can .. get along! We just have to tell ourselves.. We will not kill .. Today!
Now beam me up Scotty, there are too many communists down here.
I’m no expert, but my guess is: if as you’re attempting to land on it and burn to a fiery crisp, it’s probably a star, whereas with planets, not so much of a massive gaseous fireball.
Re. Obama as a Vulcan.
The GOP should get the actor who played Tuvok to do the reply to the president’s address. Ears & all.
He’d have my attention (not like Jindal).
Since Kirk is in the future, maybe he learned a lot from us. Maybe his certainty is based on the outcome of our endless dickering about what’s a planet and what’s a dwarf plant and what’s a star. What do ya think about that, eh, smart guy? You trying to create a stable time loop here, because we all know that that never works out in real life.
I think space exploration is important–we should put our top people on it. Lets sent THE OBAMA , Pelosi , Reed , Biden , Frank , and Dodd into outer space . Maybe towards the crab nebula!
After the Eugenics Wars of the 1990’s, the last World War was started by a dictator known only as ‘Colonel Green’. (obviously an environmentalist wacko).
It was in the aftermath of that war that Zephram Cockrane caught the attention of a passing Vulcan science ship with his prototype warp-drive ship, and the nations of the world united against those Stuck-up, Smug, Pointy-eared Prigs and went on to dominate the galaxy under heros like J. Tiberius Kirk.
Well, anyway, that’s the way I heard it.