Monday, August 30

Totally Related to Everything

So I was reading this girl's blog when I came upon her post about Pluto losing its status as a planet. She posted it on August 27, 2006 at about 2:44 pm. Today (August 30, 2010, about 5:19 pm), after four years, I went to the link she posted, and read the BBC article about Pluto's demotion. It was so interesting and a bit funny and sad that Scientists and Astronomers were teary-eyed with the fact that Pluto can no longer be included in Science textbooks, and to quote BBC:
Pluto, which was discovered in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh, will be referred to as a "dwarf planet".There is a recognition that the demotion is likely to upset the public, who have become accustomed to a particular view of the Solar System.
It also said there that on 2015, a US Spacecraft, New Horizons, is due to fly by Pluto and The Kuiper Belt.

Today is August 30, 2010, 4 years and 3 days after I read this girl's post about Pluto losing its status as a planet, and 5 years to go before New Horizon flies by the dwarf planet Pluto, I can now officially declare my love for Relativity and Space and Time and Spacetime has reached the intensity of my love for Chemistry.

If there is such a career as Time Enthusiast, I'd definitely pursue that.

How come you are called a dwarf, when your mere presence couldn't even fit on my blog? You are still as precious as the other major planets to me, dearest Pluto.