Bastards

[prog]

People who voted to declassify Pluto are the same sorts of people as Americans who wanted to ditch their constitution as soon as they realized that it's 200 years old and was written by squares besides. Wevowution, Vivian!!

I really want to not care about this but I'm finding that I can't not.

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Well I dunno, "planet" pretty much just used to mean "big thing orbiting the sun" and it's just that we didn't know of that many of them. The way I understand it, if we make Pluto a planet then we have to make a lot of other crappy rocks planets too. I think on the whole it's better to have consistent terminology where science is concerned?

[prog.livejournal.com]

Would it have killed them to at least grandfather in Pluto, which has been a planet for almost the entirety of living memory, and never said boo to nobody?

I'm totally unfriending astronomy out of protest, as it is filled with cackling kiddies with Invader Zim icons hooting about what a good decision this is. I want to punch em all in the nose.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Well it's not like Pluto isn't there any more, or people are going to stop studying it as a fascinating object. It's merely a change in classification, from planet to *dwarf planet*. It even still has the word planet in it!