It only just hit me...

[trinityvixen]

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.

Comments

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

Media is our new deity.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

Actually thats a given
its in the book American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I really hope you are making refrence to this book
if not i am very very scared.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

I didn't think about it until after I started writing the comment. It's not exactly a unique idea though.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

I think that just adds to the validity (sp?) of the arguement

people worship media and technology these days
I only thought of that refrence because Trinitys brother is reading American Gods for the first time right now and we were just talking about this last night.