Pickin' On The Little Guy

First, those snooty bastards at the International Astronomical Union had to go and say that Pluto wasn't even a planet. Now the Minor Planet Center has decided to change the dwarf planet's name to 134340. What sort of example does the Minor Planet Center make by running it's operation like a 1938 Nazi concentration camp? Ask any little person and they will tell you that life is hard enough but imagine how much more difficult it would be if they had to go by 356098 or Z-69-Wammy instead of Stu or Betty! Personally, I've never liked using this term "dwarf" to begin with since it implies inferiority. I think we should start using "cute" instead because everyone would agree that a small version of anything is always cuter. Just look at the wee monkey I blogged about last month. So you can go ahead and change its name if you want to, Minor Planet Center (or Astronaut Nazis as I refer to them now) but it will still be Pluto to me. The cutest planet in the solar system.


You can find the article here.