Is Pluto a planet?

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I am not sure I care. If I can't see it, or travel to it, how am I supposed to know for sure that it is even real.
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So is this a question you got the answer wrong on? Because as far as the Public Schools are concerned you are not allowed to think of Pluto as a planet any more. I think that some PHD grad student had to change the status of Pluto, in order to get published or their doctorate. So now the rest of us have to answer the question on the quizes differently, than the same way the question was answered for decades.
 
I am of the opinion that change is bad, so I like to think of it as a planet, partly because I feel sorry for it. But if I'm trying to sound intelligent I will say that no, it is not.
 
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Yeah, me too, it's so sad! What, did it get a call on its cell telling it that it had been demoted? Poor thing
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But they're saying it's just another piece of space rock in orbit. Took them long enough.
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Not a planet. It was only discovered about 80 years ago. It's not like it's been a planet since prehistory. Uranus and Neptune are also fairly new, discovered in the 16th and 17 centuries, but they qualify as planets.

Science develops. Definitions get changed, and the you get on with it. Anyone with any experience with science knows that it is not static; taxonomy changes, biological concepts get refined, and physics may completely change with new evidence of particles that can be accelerated past the speed of light.

What was science fiction in my not to distant childhood is now the stuff of routine medicine. I'm old enough to remember the first IVF, and how out there it all seemed at the time; now it is a completely normal, although last resort, treatment for infertility.
 

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