Ladies and gentlemen: everything you’ve been taught is a lie.
Pluto is, apparently, not a planet any more.
Personally, I think this “Reality TV” stuff has gone to far when groups of thousands of scientists get together to vote a celestial body off of the planet island. I wonder if they did it by torch-light or if they had little confessionals and what not.
Don’t feel bad, Pluto, you’ll always be a planet to me.
[Via: Kathleen]
August 24th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
sighs why is it that everything I learned in elementary school decides to spontaneously change as I age… countries, territories, planets… what next?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
I’ve actually been taught most of my life that Pluto was a planet, but also that its status as a planey was highly debatable, many scientists disagreed with that, and that it could one day change.
Oh well. Guess now we just have My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine.
So… what do we change Nine to? I think you should poll people and decide it. Then we can send it in to all the textbook companies.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Kristin had a great idea. My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos. It works great. I mean, I still am not comfortable with “poof” suddenly living in an eight planet solar system, but the “Nachos” thing makes the transition tolerable-ish.