Think about all of the exhibits out there that will need at least some modifications: schools, musuems, planetariums, publishing companies, the list goes on.
Most will probably put a big "X" over Pluto, but for others it may be more costly.
What do you think? Millions of dollars?
2006-09-15 13:17:02 · 15 answers · asked by powhound 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I dont think it will make much difference. spending is good for our economy. But new text books are made yearly regardless of pluto's status. I think that the demotation of pluto overall is good because it will allow student to gain interest in a new topic that may not have been notice until now, plus student and people need to talk about more things than just politic and that is all that is in the news now. But for the most part i think the cost of this action in dollars is very minimal
2006-09-15 13:43:14 · answer #1 · answered by tcarrw 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wont affect schools and publishing companies because the publishers are used to putting out new editions every year or two, especially for science books.
Schools will either get these books or have to wait a year and in the meantime have to point out that the book is wrong now. Teachers will have to teach, yes, but I'm sure they can handle it.
Museums wont be too affected. It doesn't cost much to take down a ball. There will be some cost from redoing written explainations and perhaps recordings. But museums dealing in science realize that it changes everyday. We are constantly learning new things. They have some money set aside for updates.
Total cost: minimal
2006-09-15 16:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by iMi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could build all the schools and furnish them, feed all the starving. Dig wells where there is no water and make dams to hold back the water for irrigation. To bring food to the starving.
Or enable them to grow their own. For what it costs to build the space station. That last rocket that went up? The expense and man power was clear off the charts. Millions to get it out of books. yet for those who learn on computers which is the classroom of tomorrow. It was the click of a mouse.
The schools as they are today are obsolete. Children need to learn at their own pace. In a quiet environment. With no distractions. No bullies, no sports. That should be separate from the learning environment. School books over 4 years old are obsolete. Yet the encarta is changed as it happens.
That is an Encyclopedia of everything.
2006-09-15 13:27:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not millions, sir. My friend Sonja estimated it at between 1/2 and 3/4 trillion US Dollars (all things being equal) to republish all affected materials, and dispose of all documents invalidated by the change. At that rate it would seem profitable to shut down planetology and Astronomy for good.
2006-09-15 15:54:36 · answer #4 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fact that some dumass made a federal issue of it wont change its orbital path! To begin with, if they are going to be so trivial, its time to get rid of all those dumass greek names of the rest of the planets including the word "planet"!
2006-09-15 22:12:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're talking billions.
I for one, do not buy
the unreliable elliptical
cross-over spiel.
Pluto was and is a planet.
These guys have got to come
up with something a little more
rewarding to mankind than demoting
a Planet --- really!
2006-09-15 17:47:31 · answer #6 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
more than that I think. Probably billions and billions. By the time we pay all the scientists to sit around and discuss the idea, and then they had to do all this research on it. Now they have to go and change all the science books.. Whatever the cost - it was more than it was worth.
You'd think they would spend OUR money on creating a new energy source or something.
2006-09-15 13:24:14 · answer #7 · answered by helpme1 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Eh yeah I was disappointed. And it'll probably cost a fortune but it's just as bad as the time the The Smithsonian realized they had the wrong back legs on their triceratops.
2006-09-15 13:22:00 · answer #8 · answered by Sara 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They can't get rid of Pluto!! I grew up on "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." Now it just wouldn't sound right without pizzas.... lol...
2006-09-15 13:21:05 · answer #9 · answered by misery 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He's already been placed on the injured reserve list at Disney Studios.
2006-09-15 13:21:00 · answer #10 · answered by Jerry T 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋