Here’s the deal. If it’s big and it orbits the sun, everyone in the world (still a world, for the time being) thinks it’s a planet. And it’s been that way ever since the scientists first fought long and hard to prove Pluto was there in the first place.<\/p>\n
The average Joe doesn’t even realize there’s other shit out there past Pluto, let alone understand or care why Pluto doesn’t make the arbitrary cut as a planet. Astronomy is full of arbitrary firsts – what’s an AU? What’s a parsec? First guy into the pool got to call it. First guy to go, “hey, there’s something big out there” got to call it a planet, not realizing that his historic first would be tossed out the window by a bunch of elitist pedants who want to be in on their own historical first – and Clyde can suck it.<\/p>\n
It’s not like the astronomers club couldn’t have their little insider esotericisms (if that isn’t a word, I’m making it one) – join the gang and you get to be part of the hip crowd that doesn’t treat Pluto as a planet, just as you’re the only group that takes all those other rocks into account when you’re doing your math. You know, like the math nerds – to us, Pi is 3.14. To the math wonks, it’s a lot longer.<\/p>\n
The rest of us still think Pluto is a planet.<\/p>\n
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