Angry Astronomer notes that California legislature spent taxpayer money drawing up an official resolution condemning the decision of the International Astronomical Union to revoke Pluto's status as planet. ("Excuse me, IAU? You have a phone call from California." "Who?" "It's one of the provinces of the USA")

Among other inane reasons, they point out that "the deletion of Pluto as a planet renders millions of text books, museum displays, and children's refrigerator art projects obsolete."

This is exactly the kind of "aww, poor Pluto," nostalgia-trumping-science shit that makes me sick. Science exists to make what you believe today wrong in the future. That's what it does. Dragging your feet makes you look not quaint, but rather like Flat Earthers or Young Earthers.

"But I Liked the Brontosaurus!!!"

Now if you want to complain that the IAU vote was done on the last day of the conference, with a small number of members still around, or that the new definition is vague, that's another thing...

Update 9/8: AA has updated his post to note that the bill is in fact a joke. Ha ha.