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.

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The old man in me (which is nearly all of me at this point) loathes change.

The solar system has nine planets. NINE! So, what? Now we live in a system of eight friggin' planets? That's total bullshit. Hell, let's also recategorize Mercury as the Sun's moon. That will bring us down to seven plantes. Wait! We can recast Jupiter and Saturn as binary quasi-stars! That will bring the total planet count down to five.

Hell, let's put the rocky planets and the sun together in their own system
and kick out all the gas giants to their own group. That way, Earth can be the BIGGEST planet in a three planet system (Mercury is Sun's moon, remember?)

Feh. I blame the Romans for infected us with a pathologic need for classification and order. Damned stoics...