It’s been a while, but some sort of space junk has been blocking our transmissions and, therefore, our view of what has been happening in our solar system.
We’ve been out of contact for about 27 badrojns, or nearly 3 of your Earth months. (When will you begin using standard measurements like the rest of Creation?)
We took a picture of the junk. That’s it up there in the corner. From what we could pick up from your primitive airwaves, you Earthlings claim it is something called the NASA New Horizons spacecraft you sent off to explore Pluto.
Typical Earthling stupidity. You decided that our neighbor Pluto wasn’t a planet after all — and it took you 80 years to come to that conclusion, but you’re still spending gazillions of your coins to finance a missionn to explore it. Eighty years this week, to be precise, since poor old Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto, even though those of us out here know it never was lost.
That floating junkpile of yours now is closer to us than it is to you, and it took you four years to get just that far. And, what happens if once it gets to Pluto it finds out our neighboring rock is, indeed, a planet? Are you going to take 80 years after that to reclassify it yet again?
Gorpindor, you Earthlings continue to baffle me beyond all zandrw. Have you given some thought to just staying where you are? You just get all excited when whoever is in charge of your country makes an announcement about exploring space, but you don’t achieve a lot.
Perhaps all of us out here on the edge are better off because of that.
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Don’t blame all of us Earthlings — 6.7 billion — for the actions of a tiny minority, specifically 424 members of the IAU, making a stupid decision.
Their decision was immediately rejected by hundreds of professional astronomers in a petition led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Most of us still consider Pluto a full-fledged planet. And don’t mess with New Horizons, because its data is what will set the misguided Pluto demoters straight.