These two guys made a fully-functional record player completely out of Legos except for the paper cone, the tin foil, and the needle. Pity they chose "Iron Man" as the song for their technological achievement; we'd have gone with something more apropos to the situation, like "Brick."

Of course Bill Nye the Science Guy could explain that this is really quite basic - all you need is a platform to spin a record and you can easily make your own phonograph or gramophone. But we think that it's still a cool achievement to make it out of Lego pieces.

By the way, if there are more comments about the tall guy's leather armstraps than there are about Legos and technology, we'll be sorely disappointed. Nah. It's Christmas. Comment what you want (for the "record" - pun intended - some of us think the leather armbands were cool in a goth-evil-scientist kind of way, while the kinky QJ staffers got the giggles).

When Bill Nye the Science Guy explains it on ABC News, it's a whole lot clearer than having the IAU issue a communique. Why CAN'T Pluto be a planet? Well, simply because - and this isn't Bill talking, but our one-sentence summary of him - Pluto is essentially a glorified comet.

Well, it's not a comet because it's too big to be classified as one, but as Bill points out, it is smaller than 1,500 kilometers, and is mostly made of ice. So, if it were orbiting in Mercury's path, instead of where it is on the fringes of our solar system, pretty soon it would become an even smaller piece of rock that once was Pluto's inner core. This is like saying you cannot call the surface of a frozen lake "real estate" to build a house on because when the summer comes, you can kiss that house goodbye.

"I mean, is that worthy [to be called a] planet, a planet that just evaporates? Pffshht! For crying out loud!"

From Bill's point of view, however, there is a bright side to Pluto losing planethood, as it shows how dynamic and changing the world of science could be. Learn someting new, something really new and really big, and it literally rocks your scientific world to the core, even of an ice dwarf like Pluto. Click Play on the YouTube clip below to hear and see ol'd Bill yourself.