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Wherefore art thou, Pluto?
Pluto is no longer a planet. Can you imagine? One day, you've got a planet and the next day don't.
The International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The domain of science - unlike that of politics and warfare - has an international organization with clout. They can make a decision and make it stick. They can take a whole planet and unmake its status.
Talk about branding. If you're in the planet category one day and the next day - you're not - it's serious. Could this happen to you?
Would it be that the UN had this fortitude and clout.
This really is the last straw. How much more of what I was taught in the Cody, Wyoming school system will have its truth impeached? Its factuality unfacted?
My mother told me to listen to my teachers. I did. I believed them that they were telling me the truth. Little did I know, even though they believed what they were telling me, that they were wrong, wrong, wrong.
The truth changes.
Harummph.
Posted on August 24, 2006 04:57 PM | Permalink
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Comments
Take heart. Pluto is a still a great Disney character and it's doubtful his loveable dog status will be revoked.
True, Tim, but the gag in the first episode of Mork & Mindy doesn’t work any more: ‘Have you ever been to Pluto?’ ‘No, it’s a Mickey Mouse planet.’ They may have to redub it so Robin Williams said, ‘No, it’s a Mickey Mouse astronomical unit orbiting the sun,’ and the lip synch guys will have a fit.
An Earth-shattering (if you'll forgive the expression) post. As someone who resides in Canada, it's like someone saying to you, "You're so far north, you're just a mass of ice; we'll now relegate you to less-than-a-nation status. It won't be called Canada any more; it'll be just "the landmass north of the 49th parallel". Oh, the humanity!
To be entirely serious, though, I'd completely forgotten the "Mork & Mindy" reference. Man! This is TRULY important.
Na-Nu, Na-Nu earthlings. Totally shocked that Pluto regulated to non-planet status.
Actually, sat in many of those same classes in Cody, Wyoming as Neill, but didn't really pay much attention to what they had to say. Only star gazing I was interested at the time was from the backseat of my '60 Chevy.