Well, I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed in the IAU's decision, yes, but what I'm mostly disappointed in is seeing a group of mostly otherwise reasonable people treating this like it's some sort of huge victory, or that they've somehow been personally vindicated by this.

This is not a case of 'Science over Popular Opinion'. This is a case of Elite Opinion over Popular Opinion. There's no science in "Them thar thins be movin' funny." I'm not going to go so far as Doodler and suggest that this was some sort of vendetta, but I do think this had nothing to do with logic, and everything to do with emotion.

And this is definitely not a case of 'Logic over...' well, anything, really. As far as I can tell, by this definition, Earth has only been footnoted in as a planet. There's no way anyone could reasonably consider the Moon to be small enough to be discounted in the "orbital clearing" definition. Earth's orbit is heavily disturbed by the Earth, to the point where I can't accept it as being a dominant body, or having cleared its orbit. There's no logic in footnotes of convenience.

It's clear to me that this issue isn't over, so we can all stop patting ourselves on the back, or patting the IAU on its back, and just wait for this to start up again. Nothing has been accomplished here, except garnering the ire of those who disagree with the IAU. The popular opinion of an elite few now has to withstand the beating of the popular opinion of everyone else. I'm going to wait and see if the IAU's made of stand or bedrock.

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