Comments on: I’m Your Moon http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/09/im-your-moon/ She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: modhran http://www.bookishdark.com/2006/09/im-your-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-188 modhran Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:16:06 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=69#comment-188 It not that I'm being entirely sentimantal about it... but the arguement I've heard most about Pluto's demotion is that if you look at all the other planets it's the one that's different. I feel that if they're going to reclassify pluto because it doesn't measure up, perhaps they should reclassify the rocky planets from the gassy ones, because if a gas giant is considered a planet, how does earth measure up? Are we next to go? Well, I'm sure Mercury and Mars are closer to the chopping block. ___________________ When they took Pluto I did not speak up, because I wasn't a Kuyper Belt Object... When they took Mercury and Mars I did not speak up because I had a full atmosphere... When they came for Venus and Me there was no one left to speak up for us. ____________________ And I whole heartedly agree that everyone should support Jonathan Coulton... He's great. It not that I’m being entirely sentimantal about it… but the arguement I’ve heard most about Pluto’s demotion is that if you look at all the other planets it’s the one that’s different.

I feel that if they’re going to reclassify pluto because it doesn’t measure up, perhaps they should reclassify the rocky planets from the gassy ones, because if a gas giant is considered a planet, how does earth measure up?

Are we next to go? Well, I’m sure Mercury and Mars are closer to the chopping block.

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When they took Pluto I did not speak up, because I wasn’t a Kuyper Belt Object…

When they took Mercury and Mars I did not speak up because I had a full atmosphere…

When they came for Venus and Me there was no one left to speak up for us.
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And I whole heartedly agree that everyone should support Jonathan Coulton… He’s great.

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