Reply #25: true confession. . .

[stellanoir]

I heard an really funny astronomer on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" yesterday. Didn't catch his name but he was affiliated with the primary Planetarium in NY. (Hayden?) (I'm writing this post prior to my imbibing my morning beverage-too lazy to google it-my teapot takes forever) Anyhoo the guy was a riot and he was on to do the segment they call "Not My Job."

In his preamble he was talking about Pluto's diminished status and how he had actually called Disney to find out why Mickey wasn't Pluto's mouse instead of Pluto being Mickey's dog. A rep from Disney said the cartoon character who's wearing clothes has dominance. (???) He also mentioned an asteroid that's trajectory is going to have a near miss with Earth in 2029. Ahhh it appears that it will pass us closer than many of our communication satellites and we won't be sure as to it's trajectory on its second pass until much later. One of the panelists said "why don't we fire a missile at it." He said something to the effect of "sometimes testosterone based solutions are not the best." LOL

So I stole that line from him.