August 20, 2006
Sprawl.
Tags: scienceExurban sprawl has come to the solar system. Once a quiet community of nine planets spinning lazily around the hot urban core, the solar system has become a vast megalopolis, surrounded by cold, dark, impersonal bodies who take hundreds of years to make their commutes around the sun.
The recent deregulation of our planetary system will lead to unfettered growth, as development reaches out to more ice cubes. Growth like this is unsustainable! It will lead to an inevitable reduction in the quality of life for every planet in the system! Except maybe Uranus. That planet has never had it easy.
Update (August 24, 2006): Alas, poor Pluto. I knew him, Horatio: After 76 years in the club, Pluto is no longer a planet. I have to admit, I really am a little sad. And what of that poor dead astronomer who discovered that little ball of ice back in 1930?
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