Sorry, Pluto. You've Just Been Demoted From Dog To Bitch.
Less than a year ago, NASA launched their New Horizons probe to the last planet yet to be explored by a human space craft. Oops...looks like you guys just wasted $650 million and 15 years to study a large piece of ice. This week, astronomers of the International Astronomical Union met in Prague to decide the fate of our "pizza" planet. There has been much buzz in the astronomical community, as well as the non-educated community about this vote which has reversed Pluto's 76 year status of planet.
So many people are sad that Pluto is no longer one of the nine planets. But of all, I think that Pluto itself will be affected emotionally by this the most. The last planet in line to be king will no longer be recieving welfare checks in the mail, it's moon Charon, has just recently divorced it's icy spouse, and Pluto will soon be deported back deep into the Kuiper Belt.
But of course with any situation like this, it is the children who are always affected the most. Caught in the middle, children are often confused and uncertain about what is happening. How can children learn that "my very educated mother just served us nine." Nine what? Planets perhaps? "My Very Exotic Mistress Just Showed Up Nude" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
So many people are sad that Pluto is no longer one of the nine planets. But of all, I think that Pluto itself will be affected emotionally by this the most. The last planet in line to be king will no longer be recieving welfare checks in the mail, it's moon Charon, has just recently divorced it's icy spouse, and Pluto will soon be deported back deep into the Kuiper Belt.
But of course with any situation like this, it is the children who are always affected the most. Caught in the middle, children are often confused and uncertain about what is happening. How can children learn that "my very educated mother just served us nine." Nine what? Planets perhaps? "My Very Exotic Mistress Just Showed Up Nude" just doesn't have the same ring to it.