Why is Pluto a normal dog with no human characteristics and why is Goofy human-like?
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Pluto is modelled after Old Yeller\n\nGoofy is modelled after Fred MacMurray
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Is this a serious question?  Did it ever occur to you that the biology of a dog is just a wee bit different than that of a human?
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It's a play on making cartoon animal characters human like.
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The International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer a planet.  Instead, they decided to classify it as a "dwarf planet".\n\nSee the details below.\n\nRESOLUTION 5A\nThe IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:\n\n(1) A "planet" [footnote 1] is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\n\n(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [footnote 2] , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.\n\n(3) All other objects [footnote 3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".\n\n\nFootnote 1: The eight "planets" are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\n\nFootnote 2: An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.\n\nFootnote 3: These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.\n\nRESOLUTION 6A\nThe IAU further resolves:\n\nPluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
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There are alot of objects that exist beyond Pluto. Yet, at this point none of these is really large enough to be considered a planet. Check the source link for more info.
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For the same reason Goofy (a dog) CAN talk and pluto (also a dog) can't!!!\n\n\n\nIT'S PRETEND!!!!!!
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That's right because Pluto, in fact, may actually be an asteroid and not a planet at all.  It was thought for years that Pluto is a planet, and likely not formally *changed* persay, but it's the largest mass found in an asteroid belt, and, being spherical, it was assumed to be a planet.\n\nScience and the invention of things like the Hubble telescope have shown us more detail on such things as galaxies, planets, asteroid belts, etc.
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Pluto is far too cold to ever support life.  It is so cold, that when it reaces the more distant parts of it's orbit, it's atmosphere changes from a gas to a liquid and "rains" on the surface.\n\nAlso, there is not enough light to support plant life, the content of the atmosphere (even when it is a gas) is not right for animals to breathe and it's surface (and probably the entire planet) is permamently frozen.\n\nSo humans, in order to live on pluto, would have to use an incredible amout of energy to grow food, maintain a breathable atmosphere (in a biosphere type enviromnet) and provide enough heat in order to survive.\n\nPluto has no known sources of energy, and solar power is out of the question, so nuclear power would be the only viable solution.\n\nIt would be very expensive, and quite difficult to keep a sufficient supply of nutrients and water (although the water could maybe be made on-site) to support human life.
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The tenth planet is like really great, thanks for asking.  He spins around and around and makes one revolution around the sun about once every several thousand thousand years.  Therefore you might call this tenth planet (he doesn't mind) a chunk of ice, and not really planet-like at all.  But wait, you're saying, Pluto is a chunk of ice and also a planet!  Well, Pluto actually (he's telling me now) doesn't even consider himself a planet, as he's really just a large ice-chunk in the Kuiper Belt.  The tenth planet (we'll call him "Frank", that's what he prefers) is a little peeved that Pluto gets a thousand-brother belt to wear and all he's got is the occasional through-comet.  We can't help you, Frank, I'm sorry.  We're like, a billion miles away.
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Pluto has 3 moons (Charon,S/2005 P1,S/2005 P2)\nVenus has none\nSee all about moons in the solar system in\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/moons_table.html
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Because Pluto is too small and dim.  Pluto does not emit any light of its own, rather it reflects sunlight.\n\nThe best images Hubble takes are from objects much, MUCH larger than Pluto, that also emit their own light, so that even at the immense distances involved, there is still more energy being collected and focused by the mirrors onto the CCD cameras which record the image.\n\nIf you look at the Hubble images of Pluto, you can easily see the pixelation from the camera -- those are the squarish boxy shapes superimposed over the images.  Go to the referenced site and look at the image -- each of the pixels shown is more than 100 miles across the face of Pluto at the distance of 3 billion miles.  And that's the best photo ever made.
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Goofy is a dog, like Mickey is a mouse, but Pluto is a Dog Dog. That's the explanation I read somewhere. To put it another way, Pluto is a pet, while Goofy is Mickey's equal. To give Pluto speech would make it awkward for him to be owned by someone else.
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Only Plutos nose and tail.
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Pluto (planet), ninth planet from the Sun and outermost known member of the solar system. Pluto was discovered as the result of a telescopic search inaugurated in 1905 by the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who conjectured the existence of a distant planet beyond Neptune as the cause of slight perturbations (see Orbit) in the motions of Uranus. Continued by members of the Lowell Observatory staff, the search ended successfully in 1930, when the American astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh found Pluto near the position Lowell had predicted. The new planet’s mass, however, seemed insufficient to account for the perturbations of Neptune, and the search for a possible tenth planet continues.\n\nPluto revolves about the Sun once in 247.7 years at an average distance of 5.9 billion km (3.67 billion mi). The orbit is so eccentric that at certain points along its path Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. No possibility of collision exists, however, because Pluto’s orbit is inclined by more than 17.2° to the plane of the ecliptic and never actually crosses Neptune’s path.\n\nVisible only through large telescopes, Pluto is seen to have a yellowish colour. For many years very little was known about the planet, but in 1978 astronomers discovered a relatively large moon orbiting Pluto at a distance of only about 19,000 km (12,000 mi) and named it Charon. The orbits of Pluto and Charon caused them to pass repeatedly in front of one another from 1985 to 1990, enabling astronomers to determine their sizes fairly accurately. Pluto is 2,284 km (1,420 mi) in diameter, and Charon is 1,192 km (740 mi) in diameter, making them even more like a double-planet system than are the Earth and its moon. Pluto was also found to have a thin atmosphere, probably of methane, exerting a pressure on the planet’s surface that is about 100,000 times weaker than the Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level. The atmosphere appears to condense and form polar caps during Pluto’s long winter. The first map of Pluto’s surface was made by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows vague light and dark regions of unknown origin.\n\nWith a density about twice that of water, Pluto is apparently made of much rockier material than are the other planets of the outer solar system. This may be the result of the kind of cold-temperature/low-pressure chemical combinations that took place during the formation of the planet. Some astronomers have suggested that Pluto may be a former satellite of Neptune, knocked into a separate orbit during the early days of the solar system. Charon would then be an accumulation of the lighter materials resulting from the collision.
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Well Pluto fits.\n\nBecause of his dark and morbid personality he was not especially liked by either the gods nor the mortals. His character is described as "fierce and inexorable", and of all the gods he was by far most hated by mortals. He was not, however, an evil god, for although he was stern, cruel, and unpitying, he was still just. Hades ruled the Underworld and therefore most often associated with death and was feared by men, but he was not Death itself — the actual embodiment of Death was Thanatos.\n\n\nor\nThe Daimones were spirits of the human condition: personifications of various states of existence, emotions, actions and morality. The Daimones of morality were divided into Agathoi (the Good, Virtues) and Kakoi (the Bad, Vices). Daimones of human action and condition were similarly classed as Agathos (Good, Favourable) or Kakos (Bad, Harmful).\n\nTheir names were simply capitalised Greek nouns: Hypnos, for example, is just the Greek word for sleep (hypnos) given a capital letter, Eros is love (eros), Nike victory (nike), and so on. The Romans translated the name-words into Latin: Hypnos becomes Somnus, from the Latin word for sleep, Eros Amor, Nike Victoria, etc.\n\nThe first section of this page lists the Daimones according to their Greek names, the second is a list of their Latin counterparts. After each there follows an English translation of the name-word. In many cases multiple terms are used to clarify a range of meanings.\n\nMost of the Daimones were pure personifications with little or no mythology. A few however were were given fuller characterisation by the poets, such as Eris, the Lady of Strife, and Hypnos God of Sleep. Others like the love-god Eros and Nike, Victory personified, achieved cult status with the dedication of minor altars and precincts in historical times.\n\nGREEK NAMES OF DAIMON PERSONIFICATIONS\n\n\nTHANATOS (DEATH)\nADEPHAGIA Gluttony\n\nADIKIA Injustice, Wrong-doing\n\nAERGIA Idleness, Laziness, Do Nothing, Sloth (Latin Socordia, Ignavia)\n\nAGLAIA Beauty, Splendour, Glory, Magnificence, Adornment\n\nAGON Contest, Struggle\n\nAIDOS Reverence, Respect, Shame, Self-Respect, Modesty (Latin Pudicitia)\n\nAISKHYNE Shame, Sense of Shame, Modesty, Honour (Latin Pudicitia)\n\nAKHOS Pain of Body, Pain of Mind, Grief, Distress (Latin Dolor)\n\nAKRATOS Pure, Absolute, Untempered\n\nALALE War-Cry, Battle-Cry\n\nALETHEIA Truth, Truthfulness, Sincerity (Latin Veritas)\n\nALGEA (pl) Pain of Body, Pain of Mind, Grief, Distress, Suffering (Latin Dolor)\n\nAMEKHANIA Helplessness, Want of Means\n\nAMPHILOGIAI (pl) Disputes, Debate, Contention (Latin Altercatio)\n\nANAIDEIA Ruthlessness, Shamelessness, Unforgivingness\n\nANDROKTASIAI (pl) Slaughter of Men in Battle\n\nANGELIA Message, Tidings, Proclamation\n\nANIA Grief, Sorrow, Distress, Trouble (Latin Dolor)\n\nANTEROS Reciprocated Love\n\nAPATE Trick, Fraud, Deceit, Guile, Treachery (Latin Dolus, Fraus)\n\nAPORIA Difficulty, Perplexity, Want of Means\n\nARAI (pl) Curses, Imprecations\n\nARETE Virtue, Excellence, Goodness, Manliness, Valour (Latin Virtus)\n\n\nEROS (LOVE)\nATE Delusion, Infatuation, Folly, Reckless Impulse, Rash Action (Latin Nefas)\n\nBIA Force, Power, Might, Bodily Strength, Compulsion (Latin Vis)\n\nDEIMOS Terror-Fear, Dread (Latin Pavor, Formido)\n\nDIKAIOSYNE Justice, Righteousness
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Wow...im sorry to hear about that..I have an uncle who was from Pluto too except his squirrels on his head werent invisable..im glad to know there is someone else out there who is from Pluto too..
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You know, that is the most interesting take on the whole philosophical probelm of the 20th century*.\n\n My guess is that Disney was making the point that standing upright, using tools and speech were an important part of being granted human rights; Since Goofy at least managed to grasp those concepts, he had more rights than Pluto did. \n\n * This is of course the question "Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, pluto is a dog, so What's Goofy?"