Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100302:02:52:00
About it. >> exactly. in my sort of casual statistics, about 10% of americans who felt strongly about pluto knew that an american discovered it. the source had to be some other force acting on these emotions. >> do you know what it is? >> well, not initially. i mean, i had to -- i scratched my head and i looked around. i sniffed around and i said, wait a minute, there's this dog we all know, mickey's dog that has the same tenure in the hearts and minds of americans. why? because it was first sketched the same year coincidentally that pluto the cosmic object was discovered. 80 years they've bee...