PLuto

Thinking about how this lonely little rogue object from the Kuiper Belt becomes a planet. Why, because we still have no idea about what's going on in the sky. The Solar System. The Galaxy. The Universe. None. No clue. You can read books. You can get some basic information. But you won't learn anything.

This little ball of gas and dust, pair shaped as it is, with it's little brother Charon, acts like a comet more than it does a planet. All the other planets conform to an orbital plane, Pluto doesn't. At certain times of the year Pluto is closer to the sun than Neptune is and cuts through Neptune's orbit. Clearly the characteristics of a comet and not a planet.

Not much bigger than our moon and considered a rogue object from the Kuiper Belt, Pluto is still on the radar. It is, still, in our solar system.

Keep asking questions.

Extremophiles.

FNK

"Fracking Idiots"

I am now coining a new term that will soon be widely spread. It is

"Fracking Idiots"

It is all about the morons who are now and have been for years removing natural gas from the ground by means of hydraulic fracturing. They send toxic chemicals into the ground to fracture the shale and surrounding rock to release the gas. What they don't care about is that these chemicals are getting into our fresh water supply. And causing earthquakes in areas that aren't expecting them for thousands of years. Now I ask you, how much longer are we going to allow these incompetent people to run our lives in this country? Why are all our leaders corrupt? It seems as if that is some pre-requisite to becoming elected. You must be corrupt or you stand no chance of winning. Wow. What a horrible state this world is in. We are in a lot of trouble.

You can use the new term in this way. You walk up to one of the natural gas workers you see in the fields near your home and ask, "Hey, what are you a fracking idiot? What are you doing? Get that shit out the ground you fracking idiot....

FNK