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| Oh, geeze... and according to the article they're printing a book on the twelve planets. NG fails BIG TIME.
I'd about bet part of the reason is because twelve is a more important-sounding number (certainly it has more mystical significance) than eight. >_< |
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Actually, someone just posted about this in one of the off-topic forums, and the kid did come out and admit that she was thinking of Aladdin. 
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/02/27/11_planet/index.html |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: Aladdinic Influences in Scientific Stupidity |
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| National Geographic held a contest to come up with a new mnemonic for remembering the planets: Mercery, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Eris.
The fact that three of these things just don't belong here seems to have no effect on NG. The winner of this contest: My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants. Okay, so it doesn't explicitly say "Aladdin," but the Aladdin-related vocabulary is there. (Most strongly the inclusion of the word 'palace,' which most children will hear spoken more in Aladdin's under-two-hour run than they will hear in six months in the real world.) Aladdin influences or not, though, NG's blunder is still head-bang worthy. If you're going to include Eris, why doesn't Charon make the mark? (It's only slightly smaller than Pluto.) And what about the other Kuiper belt objects that are just as big as Pluto? http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/28/my-contest-goes-to-11/ |
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