Idiots in the sky
Why Pluto is No Longer a Planet
Yeah, right, and human beings are no longer great apes -- we've been busted back to Purgatorius. And the great clade of reptiles, including mammals, archosaurs (e.g., birds, dinosaurs, crocodilians), and Order Squamata, has been "demoted" to Petrolacosaurus.
On a very cold day in hell.
And tell Messrs. Lovecraft, Cthulhu, and Nyarlathotep that. Then starting running -- you'll need to, because the Gugs'll gitchoo if you don't watch out!
"Dwarf planet" is an utterly useless category, unless you want a really stupid label to show your utter contempt for history, common sense, psychodynamic health,* and good science. A truly useful categorization of Solar System bodies would be according to what population of Solar System objects they belong to, because it would give a great deal of information about the origin, evolution, chemistry, and other important details of each body or group of bodies.
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*Psychodynamically, the "demotion" of Pluto symbolizes defiance/fear of death.** Everybody dies at some point, no exceptions.† Maturity includes acceptance of that fact.
**Really. Honest.
†Of course, what we could be seeing here is an all-out death-wish on the part of Brown & Co. -- I mean, first they try to "demote" the Lord of the Underworld, and then (drum roll) they go and call Eris a dwarf . . .
Yeah, right, and human beings are no longer great apes -- we've been busted back to Purgatorius. And the great clade of reptiles, including mammals, archosaurs (e.g., birds, dinosaurs, crocodilians), and Order Squamata, has been "demoted" to Petrolacosaurus.
On a very cold day in hell.
And tell Messrs. Lovecraft, Cthulhu, and Nyarlathotep that. Then starting running -- you'll need to, because the Gugs'll gitchoo if you don't watch out!
"Dwarf planet" is an utterly useless category, unless you want a really stupid label to show your utter contempt for history, common sense, psychodynamic health,* and good science. A truly useful categorization of Solar System bodies would be according to what population of Solar System objects they belong to, because it would give a great deal of information about the origin, evolution, chemistry, and other important details of each body or group of bodies.
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*Psychodynamically, the "demotion" of Pluto symbolizes defiance/fear of death.** Everybody dies at some point, no exceptions.† Maturity includes acceptance of that fact.
**Really. Honest.
†Of course, what we could be seeing here is an all-out death-wish on the part of Brown & Co. -- I mean, first they try to "demote" the Lord of the Underworld, and then (drum roll) they go and call Eris a dwarf . . .