Friday, August 25, 2006

RANT: Pluto Gets the Big Diss

I know this is probably considered old news by now, but Pluto has been dissed by the cool kids at school and made to sit at a different lunch table than all the "classical" planets. Now Pluto has to go hang his head in shame and eat lunch with the other "dwarf" planets. Daaaaaaamn thats cold.

I'm all for the evolution of science, but I just don't think it's fair to play around with Pluto like that. You give him props, tell him he's a real planet, and then one day just up and decide that its oblong orbit intercepts with Neptune, so he's out of the club. If anybody should be getting the boot it should be Uranus. Am I right? He's the but of every 8-year-olds' joke.

And it's not like all the cool kids have a consensus of what makes a planet a real planet. Almost a week ago at a "cool-kid party" (read: scientific convention of interplanetary nerds) they almost voted to re-affirm Pluto as a planet, add Pluto's homeboy Moon as a planet, and some other kids in his possee, too.

So make up your minds! What kind of a pseudo science goes around voting about what consitutes the definition of something like a friggin' planet? And cut Pluto a break. He's gotten pantsed in front of the classical planets and is feeling more than a little embarassed right now.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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