Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Dear CNN,

Thank you for today's great "breaking news" headline.

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I'm glad to know NASA finally discovered the first Earth-sized planets in the universe. All this time I thought I was living on an "Earth-sized" planet, but apparently I was wrong.

For that matter, I always thought Venus was roughly "Earth-sized." I guess you found the "Earth-sized" planets are actually somewhere else.

So, when you decide what size planet the Earth is, please let me know. In case I ever get on Jeopardy or something.
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5 comments:

  1. JonoDecember 20, 2011 at 2:34 PM

    I thought earth was a class M planet. And why is it always about size?

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  2. History DocDecember 20, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    Really, you are being too picky.

    Clearly Earth is very different, and therefore not subject to the same rules.

    We are SPECIAL, damn it.

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  3. a.generic docDecember 20, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    At least Earth still is considered a planet.
    They haven't voted us off the list like Pluto!

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  4. AnonymousDecember 20, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    And people ask why the death of traditional media is a bad thing. At least the old codgers got hearsay right.

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  5. cliffintokyoDecember 21, 2011 at 3:45 AM

    You know, online news is just so competitive....they had to get the word *first* in there somehow!

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So wadda you think?