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Re: Piffle and Poppycock
September 16, 2006 10:40 pm
Yeah, I'm trying to be stoic about the whole thing, but the loss of Pluto as a full-fledged planet screws all sorts of things up. Numerology, for example. Nine is three times three, a pregnancy lasts nine months; there's any number of mystical things going on with the nimber nine (and the number 27, three times nine, which not only relates to pi, but also has a strange conection to the relative sizes of the sun the moon and the earth; okay shh).
That said, I'm not a mystical sort of guy, but we on this planet have a long and shared history of ordering our lives by the heavens, and, for us, a nine planet solar system will always exist, at least until the 27th planet is discovered.
— Kit Roebuck
Piffle and Poppycock
September 16, 2006 2:22 am
The jury has been out for a long time concerning Pluto. Ever since its discovery It's been a source of debate. Is it an ice ball? Is it really a planet? Is it a large protoplanet, instead?
I think the Bill Bryson said it best in "A Short History of Nearly Everything": We're a lonely planet with many many light years of nearly empty space separating us from the closest star system. We need as many heavenly neighbors as we can. Pluto's still MY planet!
— Double-Oh Average Joe
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