This is our heyday, baby.

Since it’s apparently Voting Time™, I would like to vote for a changing of the name of the Team Daria website (otherwise known as simply Team Daria) to:

The Easy and Unconvincing Nihilistic Poseurism Re: Full Disclosure of One’s Secrets and Pain, Passing It Off Under a Semi-high-minded Guise When in Fact the Author Is Himself Very Private About Many or Most Matters, Though He Sees the Use in Making Certain Facts and Happenings Public

Naturally, we should change the male pronouns to female pronouns and probably adjust the noun-verb agreement accordingly, but you get the picture. Oh, and we should add a disclaimer that it’s a clever play off (or deliberate steal from) a somewhat-well-known book owned by people but never read. Otherwise we might get stuck for plagiarism. As if.

Now the important things:

When did the “Pluto isn’t really a planet, duh” stuff start? How far back does the conspiracy go? I’m actually looking for a specific year but I’m too lazy to search for the answer on my own. Someone tell me. Please.

At the risk of starting a political debate (for up until now I have struggled to keep any political commentary almost completely tucked away in the recesses of my mind and most definitely away from the TD, or TEUNPRFDOSPPIOUSGWFAIHVPAMMMTHSUMCFHP, website), I’d like to ask a sincere question:

In the name of democracy, shouldn’t we (the people) strive for a moderately controlled government as opposed to a party line majority for either the left or the right? Does the word “compromise” mean nothing in terms of political control? The idea of government in a democracy is to speak of, by, and for the people, right? Thus, the opinions, needs, and beliefs of a significant (we’ll say approximately “half” of U.S. citizens—although that statement is completely inaccurate, you get my point) portion of “we, the people” are going to be neglected. A government leaning completely to either the right of the left can never stand up straight.
Is that what we want?

Message to Pretty Logen & the Other Aggies: if things go as others’ plan, who will be your president?!?!

Okay. That’s enough for the moment.

Oh, and Save the Whales, apparently. All that.

Peace, love, and Nihilistic Poseurism.

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dismarum

Comment by dismarum | 2006/11/10 at 12:48:36

The entire Pluto controversy started pretty early, actually. The entire debate on whether or not to reclassify it as a “dwarf planet” came after the Kuiper Belt discovery in umm…1992 I think. Well it wasn’t discovered in early 1990s, it was hypothesized in the early 50s by some guy named Kuiper, but most of the “discovery” of actual space stuff in the belt happened in 1992ish for some reason. So let’s go with 1992. But yeah, there was controversy because Pluto could technically be on the outer-rim of the Kuiper Belt, thus making it a Kuiper Belt object and not a planet.

In April earlier this year, NASA discovered this other object in this belt larger than Pluto (named Eris, if you’re really all that curious) and started informally referring to it as the 10th “planet”. Thus, the entire debate of “what is or is not a planet” was needed. “Planets”, it turns out, need to be “clear of a neighborhood” - meaning they cannot be considered part of any large belt or mass of objects (i.e. - the Kuiper Belt).

So in short, the term “dwarf planet” is reserved for Pluto and basically rocks bigger than Pluto found within the Kuiper belt. They don’t get actual planetary status due to the new, clearer definition of what a “planet” is. Though this could possibly change in 2009. There’s some big worldwide astronomy convention that takes place every three years and people debate these things, cause they’re important for some reason.

So when are you going to go star watching with me? =P There’s a pretty neat meteor shower next month.
jane

Comment by jane | 2006/11/11 at 09:43:41

If you’d stop trying to get all over me every time we go star watching, maybe I wouldn’t feel so uncomfortable about the whole thing.
At least bring protection, geez.