trinityvixen | It only just hit me...

I mean, I'd heard about the whole naming the 10th planet "Xena" thing, and the moon being named "Gabrielle," but it took the most recent SomethingAwful article to really make me sit back and think about this. The SA article was talking about the hobbit-people bones they found and how referring to them as hobbit-like is just one more way scientists are over-nerding themselves. Then the Xena and Gabrielle thing came up at the end.

Yes, we truly have the most majestic solar system. Eight planets named for gods, one inaccurately named for what is only 1/3 of its surface, and one named after a fictional television character. Somewhere there are aliens laughing at us.