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Our Moon Could Become a Planet
anthemaniac writes "Earth's moon is drifting away from us more than an inch every year. In a few billion years, if the system survives, the moon would be reclassified as a planet under the new IAU definition. You gotta wonder if the astronomers who dreamed this definition up had thought of that."
That's no moon!
In a billion years propably the defintion of planet will have a few thousand updates.
The problem will fix itself in time I guess.
...oh well, forget it, it's still a moon.
...at least the tallest ones.
Reminds me of that old joke telling that a quick computation on the evolution of this distance placed the moon 4 meters away from the earth 65 million years ago and thus explained why the dinausors died.
...and we will still be waiting to play Duke Nukem forever on our Vista machines.
liqbase
In fact we'll only be able to take one item of baggage, which will be a clear plastic bag containing essential items only.
And no electronic devices. Or Liquid.
Orbiting balls of rock won't even fit through the scanner.
We can just build a new moon. With blackjack. And hookers.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Phew!
i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer