Alan Stern may be acting petulent and hypocritical, but he did wager $700 million of taxpayers' money on a mission to the ninth planet. He has to keep the public on side somehow. Saying Pluto is just a KBO ain't gonna do that.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.