{"id":6332,"date":"2025-05-18T02:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/star-trek-actor-william-shatners-call-gets-elon-musks-support\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T02:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T02:01:58","slug":"star-trek-actor-william-shatners-call-gets-elon-musks-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/star-trek-actor-william-shatners-call-gets-elon-musks-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Actor William Shatner&#8217;s Call Gets Elon Musk&#8217;s Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has supported Hollywood actor William Shatner&#8217;s idea to designate Pluto as a planet again.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Shatner, who is known for playing Captain Kirk in <em>Star Trek<\/em>, posted a request on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We should ask Elon to get the President to sign one of those Executive thingies to make Pluto a planet again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X8cw74Q3AK\">https:\/\/t.co\/X8cw74Q3AK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamShatner\/status\/1923180484256739756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p>To which Elon Musk, who has recently changed his username to Kekius Maximus, wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;d support that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;d support that<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1923222000379609542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The post quickly went viral, with many social media users supporting this idea. A\u00a0person commented, &#8220;This idea is great, it should be done while there is a chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This idea is great, it should definitely be done while there is a chance.????????????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ayse Paprika (@aysepaprika) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aysepaprika\/status\/1923275070543196218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another wrote, &#8220;This is the last great wish of a StarFleet Caption.\u00a0 Make it so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is the last great wish of a StarFleet Caption. Make it so.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Detective51 (@Detective51) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Detective51\/status\/1923391634537955688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Pluto is our family, too. I love Pluto,\u201d echoed a few.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Leaving Pluto out of planets is actually planet racism or fascism or some ism &#8211; Idk ????\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Pluto is our family too. I love Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sai Suhasini Ramalingam (@saisramalingam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saisramalingam\/status\/1923332970649186470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--#VuukleAD--><\/p>\n<p>Sharing his two cents on the matter, a user wrote, &#8220;It still is a planet. It just has an additional description of dwarf too. It&#8217;s like saying a small human is not still a human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It still is a planet. It just has an additional description of dwarf too.<br \/>It&#8217;s like saying a small human is not still a human.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Space_Me_Now (@Space_Me_Now) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Space_Me_Now\/status\/1923358100439851255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--#MIDAD1--><\/p>\n<p>Pluto is no longer considered a planet because it doesn&#8217;t meet all the criteria set by the International Astronomical Union, which defines a &#8220;planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As per <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/planets\/what-is-a-planet\/#:~:text=A%20planet%20is%20a%20celestial,the%20neighborhood%20around%20its%20orbit.\">NASA<\/a>, for an object to be classified as a planet, it must orbit the Sun, have sufficient mass for its gravity to overcome rigid forces and have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\u00a0However, in 2006, Pluto was classified as a dwarf planet because of its small size.<\/p>\n<p><!--#MIDAD2--><br \/>\n                                                                                <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has supported Hollywood actor William Shatner&#8217;s idea to designate Pluto as a planet again. Mr Shatner, who is known for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek, posted a request on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). We should ask Elon to get the President to sign one of those Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}