Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.
How do you know that??
Right! I was surprised to find out it had the reputation it does given the fame of the chef (Bobby Flay, ahem) but some people think it has the best food in town. Yay food!
Yay food is right! But I've had great meals at Mesa and the other one whose name I can't remember now. It's been years, but still.
Pluto just wants to be famous.
Happy Birthday, bon bon!
If Pluto leaves, we'll just rename 2003UB...uh...whatver Pluto and nobody has to know about it. Sort of like secretly replacing a dead goldfish and hoping nobody notices that the new one is bigger than goldie.
Moooooom, Pluto's orbit's not eccentric anymore! Did something happen when I was at summer camp?
Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.
How do you know that??
(No kidding. How do you think she'd feel if all of a sudden they reclassified the belt color in Krav and she back to being orange or whatever. She'd have a fit. I'm telling you, Pluto's gonna take off and fuck up our orbit.)
Happy Birthday bon bon! Yay celebrating birthdays with great food!!
Jessica!
Thing is, Pluto doesn't care.
I think the whole thing is so cool (not only because I got to TA about Newton's universal gravitation law on the very day the whole thing was published. Not even because I got to explain gravitation as HoYay, though I didn't use the exact expression, of course).
How the way we describe the universe is something that we make up. The universe, just like ita said, doesn't care. It would spin and roll and do whatever it does regardless of how we list it, try to interpret it, get used to calling it names or change those names. And yet, it is important, to us, at least. It doesn't only shape our understanding of the world around us, but also helps us learn how to master it, to use those facts adn rules we learn in order to play with them, to build things based on them, to study even further.
Oh, my, I'm such a geek.
How do you know that??
Pluto lurks and told me in email.
How the way we describe the universe is something that we make up. The universe, just like ita said, doesn't care.
so true. I have a quote from EM Forster above my desk:
As soon as one realizes that the universe is neither for us nor against us one feels steadier."
Happy Bon Day! I love your funny, fascinating, incisive and ultra-spicy brains.
Oh, my, I'm such a geek.
Yes, and it's wonderful.