Friends In The Sarah Lawrence Community And Beyond, When the SadieLou team got together to try to figure out what our next issue would be, it was decided collectively we would explore the controversy surrounding Pluto as an outcast planet. Our annual SLC science lecture on campus was approaching and the speaker set to enlighten was Dr. Michael E. Brown aka “the guy who outed Pluto” We decided we would post from our own perspectives about the situation, as is part of our diverse, wonderful, Sarah Lawrence dialogue, we had differing opinions on the matter. I have chosen to file these posts under “history” because a shifting of an entire planet in our universe is truly an event in time to be noted. Below you will find three posts from members of the community sharing their take on Pluto and here is mine: As a young student in most school systems, no matter the country, we are taught about the planets. It is a unifying piece of information no matter the culture, language or location.
My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nine
Pizzas
translates to
Mars
Venus
Earth
Mercury
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
When Pluto was outed, our collective knowledge as learners shifted. Our collective body of knowledge will forever be a little different. No matter the opinion on whether the tiniest planet should have been told to go (and I type this standing at five foot one inch tall) it is almost a melancholy thing to ponder: How much of my knowledge as a conscious changes because Pluto is not a planet, but now, really a ball of ice? or Was it always a ball of ice, and was I dreaming?
Humbly Yours,
Nicole Feldman
(blog editor, SadieLou.net)