I consider myself to be well educated, however I work hard at downplaying my smarts so I don't threaten others with my level of intelligence (dry sarcasm*grin*). However, I was humbled when I attempted to help my 9th grade daughter with an Earth & Space Science assignment the other day. Apparently, there's been a huge change in our universe and somehow, I have been unawares for years now.
Kinsey: "Mom. How do you like my solar system drawing?"
Me: "That's very, ooh, ahh, nice honey!"
Kinsey: 'Thanks mom."
Me: "Uh, Kinz? You forgot Pluto."
Kinsey: Rolls eyes, followed by look of utter disdain at my incompetence. "Pluto is NOT a planet."
Me: "What? What is it?"
Kinsey: "I don't know, who cares?" (good point, but I care)
Me: "Kinz are you sure? Let me see your book."
Kinsey: "Here."(Very smug like, I might add)
Me: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus.... I very smug like, turn the page expecting to see Pluto. Nothing, not even a mention of "Chapter 6- Pluto: Used to be a planet"
Ever since I placed 2nd with my 5th grade gumball diorama of the solar system suspended with fishing wire in a spray painted glitter box(My mom is a distant cousin of Martha Stewart) AND it was edible, I reasoned that my knowledge about the solar system was complete. I could move on to bigger and better knowledge. Silly me!
But my point is, there was a Pluto, nine planets. What happened? Did they simply decide, No. We here at Nasa, in a very official way, were wrong, "Pluto is just a large chunk of ice." Did Nasa lose it? Or was it simply a matter of it's too far out to study, let's just have eight planets. I mean how can this happen? If I had been on Jeopardy and they had asked me for the planet farthest away from the sun for $50,000....shoot. I wouldn't have hesitated, "What is Pluto?" You better believe though, that Alex Tribeck would have had his hands full with my initial reaction upon learning that I wasn't correct.
Good thing, I wasn't on Jeopardy, because I would have made a complete fool of myself. But for those of you who don't know this and could possibly win big on Jeopardy, I will save you the humiliation by giving you this info now. Plus, why wasn't this info on the news, was it during the time that OJ Simpson and his bronco captivated the world or farther back, when Michael Jackson got his nose job?
So now my daughter has lost faith in me and thinks I'm dumb as a box of dirt. I'm going to have go online and find out some interesting tidbit to restore her faith in me. I'll let you know what I come up with. :)
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I do remember something about this happening, but I didn't remember it until your post...I would have lost the $50,000 also with that question...
I'm like you...How can Pluto be a planet for all these years and then "BANG" no more...Did Goofy get jealous and NASA couldn't find another "planet" to call Goofy, so bye bye Pluto?
What is this world coming to? grin..
Brenda,
I think you're on to something. I'll bet it's Donald Duck though, he always had so much hostility towards Goofy and Pluto. I think it stemmed from the fact that Goofy had pants and poor Donald didn't. Poor Pluto was just the scapegoat used to get to Goofy!!!
I gotta keep up with these things...Next thing I know, the Atlantic will be deemed a lake and not an ocean.
I'm in denial. I don't care what anyone else says, Pluto is still a planet and always will be. Poor little rock of ice. All neglected and rejected. It's not right.
What's this thing Pluto you speak of? 9 planets? Are you serious? ALL smart moms know there's only 8 planets.
(Okay kid no longer over my shoulder. I can stop pretending I'm all smart!)
I'm going down town DC tomorrow with my bring back Pluto picket sign!
I too remember what they so meanly did to poor Pluto, now an outsider looking in. Did you know he still orbits? I think he thinks they'll let him back in. Poor guy.
You guys make me laugh at loud!! I think we should start a petition:)Poor Pluto.
Angela, for the love of Zeus, your blogs are the GReATEST!!! You are amazing! I miss you, I wish I could be around you........Dang it, Move to COLORADO!!!!!!
Saying Pluto is not a planet is like saying Y is no longer a vowel.
When I heard about this in 2006 I thought, what the heck are the astrologers going to do? What happens to their credibility? What do they tell all the Scorpios out there? Sorry but we made a mistake, Pluto doesn't rule your sign any more. Does the phrase "instant identity crisis" ring a bell? Are Scorpios suddenly marginalized because their ruling planet is now considered a "dwarf"?
It's a cruel world out there. First Santa Claus doesn't exist and now Pluto is an icebox. What next?
Pluto was first designated a planet in 1930. So really only a couple of generations of Scorpios have made all the wrong decisions in their lives if they chose to live according to their horoscope predictions. Luckily that's only 1/12th of the world's population. The rest of us don't have such a convenient excuse.
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