Why were people pissed when Pluto stopped being considered a planet?

Why were people pissed when Pluto stopped being considered a planet?

because they are unemployed

their dum dums

They don't seem pissed
They look rather calm actually

People attach emotional significance to arbitrary things.

Pretty sure if the planet's name didn't happen to coincide with that of a popular cartoon dog, there wouldn't be so much interest..

How the fuck would you think Pluto is tied to the char and not the god ?

Do you really think the average person is more familiar with Roman mythology than with Mickey Mouse?

Well yeah, the greek mythos are everywhere while disney have limited exposure.

Pretty sure it has more to do with Pluto being the only murrican planet

>size doesn't matter
They're compensating for micropenis.
Americans don't even know where Greece is user.

they do not have knowledge in various subjects,if they did there would be no:creationism,anti-vacc,climate change deniers,radical feminism,9/11 truthers..etc

Retards who know nothing about science like to pretend to be somehow emotionally attached to sciency things and display it publicly

They don't realize that it is still a planet and that all they did was stick on the adjective of "dwarf" to represent that it doesn't dominate its orbit.

It shook them to their core.

Pluto still is a planet.

Belief perseverance

Humans make a lot more sense when you stop thinking of them as rational agents.

Because they don't understand that it makes absolutely no difference and probably thought The Government was going to bulldoze it or something.

They had to come up with a new acronym to remember the planet names.

Oh, and they're shallow and ignorant cause it sure doesn't matter what you call a ball of rock hundreds of millions of miles away.

, said a human, rationally.

Dumb namefag poster

Because they are right.

they are people they're gonna protest about anything

make a utopian society and some people are gonna find a reason to protest too

>them

ayy?

1) There is a sense in which it is rather arbitrary and unscientific, as perceived by the general population, for a board of scientists to get together, eighty years later, and presto-chango declare, Whoops, Pluto isn't a planet after all.

2) The status (or lack thereof) of Pluto as being a planet is also a political thing. Pluto was originally discovered by an American, was of course recently studied in much greater detail by NASA, Stern et al, and is a significant footnote in twentieth century space exploration, of which Americans were, along with the USSR, the principal drivers. For a board of scientists to come along and arbitrarily de-commission Pluto, all of a sudden, smacks of a bunch of a bunch of butthurt Euros who would diminish American achievement. As I fully expected once I actually started looking into the background of the demotion, the relevant resolution is associated with Prague (typical), and cursory searching pulls up a host of Euro-sounding names.

There is also a strong tradition among everyday European people (in addition to American cranks) of insisting that the moon landings did not occur. Demoting Pluto is just another piece of anti-Americanism on the part of Europe, of a piece with moon landing denialism.