Save Pluto!

Leaving SEW & SES might be a bummer, but so was losing Pluto. I'd read earlier this month that my favorite planet was up for demotion. But then I heard over the long holiday weekend here in the UK that it had planet status taken away. It's terrible. Among other things, one of the ways I learned to remember the planets decades ago from sci-fi dean Robert Heinlein's Have Space Suit -- Will Travel no longer works.

I'm with this article, What did Pluto ever do to those science guys? Pluto should have been left alone. Who cares if there are potentially tens of other dwarf planets that might be found bigger than it. You don't call something a planet for nearly a century and then change your mind. Make an exception! I'm ready to get one of these "Pluto IS A Planet" t-shirts I've read about, in a story about how Pluto got demoted (I found some here). First we lose an entire week in the 1700s, now an entire planet!

Well... now that I registered for TypeKey... :P

Just wanted to let you know that I started a petition on my personal blog to Reinstate Pluto!

http://www.ckdisco.com/reinstate-pluto/

Comment by kid disco | August 29, 2006 6:42 PM

OK. This made me laugh. Hard. Explosively loud laugh that scared the dog. I could hear you saying this on webmaster radio in your best radio voice. It tickled me, and I really needed to laugh.

Thank you.
-H

Comment by grnidone | August 29, 2006 8:52 PM

Poor little Pluto.

Just sitting there all lonely not bothering anyone and out of the blue gets a shot to the kidneys.

Well I've always been one to root for the underdog (GO MSN !!!) ;) So let's fight the power!

If enough of us just keep calling it a planet then it is. (does anyone know someone over at Britannica?) ;)

Comment by Beanstalk SEO | August 29, 2006 11:32 PM

My two cents on the topic:
Save Pluto!

Best of luck with your future endeavours, Danny.

Comment by manny hernandez | August 30, 2006 3:18 PM

You can just add the other found "thingies"...y settle for 9 planets and remove Pluto? Save Pluto!

Comment by seohaus | April 24, 2008 6:11 PM

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