This disturbing CNN Breaking News Report popped into my inbox this morning and I have to say I'm getting the distinct sensation that the world is crumbling down around me.
"Pluto demoted
Leading astronomers have declared that Pluto is no longer a planet, approving new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. The International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. "
This is- as Marty McFly would say- "heavy". Does anyone understand the gravity of this solemn occasion? The nagging implications of such a sudden declaration?
All those science projects in school could retroactively be given F's!! Think of the textbooks that now have to be re-written! The teachers who have to be untaught. The memory banks of billions upon billions of people who foolishly believed Pluto was a planet all these years will have to be wiped clean of this false data. Money will have to be spent in new museum exhibits.
All of this simply because a panel of "know-it-all" astronomers revamped the planetary constitution!!
I'm highly indignant to this change.
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