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Monday, September 25, 2006

Xena in space

By now you must be aware that the lovely and adorable planet of Pluto was voted out of our solar system and was demoted to a "dwarf planet". I read over the weekend that while an official name was being selected, Pluto was renamed to Xena, after the warrior princess television show. Pluto's new name now is Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos and strife. However, Xena hasn't been completely removed from outer space. The moon of Eris (the planet formerly known as Pluto) is Dysnomia, after Eris' daughter, a demon spirit of lawlessness. The happy coincidence is that Xena is played by Lucy Lawless. Now the big question - have we really run out of great people on earth that when it comes to naming relatively insignificant things in outer space we can't provide them with names of real people? I never realized that Xena was such an influential television show ... since it has such a large influence in outer space, it may also be able to help us solve some of our issues here on earth. I had a sneaky feeling that chest plates and horseback riding was an answer to many of our problems.

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