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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rafael Behr

It's the end of the universe as we know it

Planet downgraded to lump of icy rock. Photo: AP

You go away for a few days and when you come back the solar system has completely changed.

Pluto not a planet? Say it ain't so.

Surely this is destined to become one of those facts beloved of pedants but despised by all card-carrying irrationalists who judge the nature of things by what feels right instead of what science dictates. Like tomatoes being fruit (obviously they want to be vegetables).

And banana trees being a type of grass.

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