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...There were high expectations that there was a planet of commensurate mass and size to Uranus and Neptune, orbiting behind Neptune. Scientists saw the path of Neptune around the sun, and they saw that it wasn't quite following Newton's laws of gravity. And so either Newton was wrong - though he'd been right for hundreds of years, so why assume that? - or there was some other mass out there that they hadn't cataloged yet that was influencing the motion of Neptune. So that was the famous Planet X. And eventually, Clyde Tombaugh in Arizona discovered a planet...
...when people say, "How many planets are there now?" I say, That's the wrong question. Do not distract yourself over the answer to that question, because that question contains no science. Now I am partly to blame, as an educator, because to third-graders you teach the planets in sequence, and books celebrate this, and kids boast about memorizing planet names, thinking that they've accomplished something. But it would be much more effective intellectually if you tell me what Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars have in common. Or why they are different. That's a much more useful...
...conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist...
...should the event succumb to Murphy's Law - which says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong - nobody can accuse the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of failing to warn that it might happen. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...other words, anything could go wrong. And if it does, the DHS can say, "We told you so." Or, as Joe Funk, a former Secret Service agent who now runs the private firm U.S. Safety & Security, puts it, "Somebody is covering their...