What's in a Name??
Since my mathematico-physical writings hold no interest for anyone (at least that may pretend to read this), I decided to bring in science in a popularized way to the glacier. All week in the newspapers and on the internet there have been articles on the "death" of Pluto. On the Daily Southtown in Chicago the front page even had "Pluto: 1930-2006". What a crock of shit. Pluto still is what it is, the have just changed what they classify it as. The new definition of "planet" includes sufficient mass to avoid irregularities in the orbit. It is well known that Pluto's orbit overlaps Neptune's. Thus, by the new definition it is not a planet. So what. I like to think of it analogically: you can call a shithead a neo-conservative, but does that change the underlying? You could call a Puritan a "trad", and what's the difference? One could even call whining irrational linguistics "postmodern philosophy" but it still is what it is.
A rose by any other name. . .?
A rose by any other name. . .?
