August 25, 2006

Pluto's Been Demoted

And Micky and Donald are worried Smiling .

Really, I don't understand what all the flack is about. So the former planet Pluto is now a Dwarf Planet. Big Deal. So we now have only eight 'real' planets orbiting around the sun. (Probably used to be nine real if the asteroid belt was a 'real' planet.)

It's just a renaming. If you're into astrology and are worried about what happens to you since you were born under Pluto.... it's still there. It's just the scientific designation that's changed.

And that's the key: science. Science changes with new information. That's how it's supposed to work. If a scientist says that something can't change, they're not a true scientist.

So Pluto's a dwarf. Wonder what they'll call the large objects orbiting around the edge of our solar system beyond the dwarf planet Pluto. (That wasn't so hard to say, was it?)

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