I was reading about moons, which of course leads to reading about planets, and dwarf planets, which Pluto got relegated to a while back. Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is actually also a dwarf planet and orbits Pluto outside its surface, thus, they are actually two dwarf planets rotating around each other. And Pluto has four known smaller moons, which orbit around the binary circling of Pluto and Charon. All the planets closer to the sun in our solar system lack a moon, at least as far as we are aware, which is limited by our Earth simian existence. Brainy folks have long theorized Venus has a moon, because it was seen a number of times by astronomers in the 17th and 18th century, but has not been seen since. Our Earth vessels we’ve sent to retrieve data and samples from Venus have not yet brought back anything proving a moon once existed. But at the other end of things, decades before Charon and Pluto’s other moons were discovered, a writer named moons around Pluto Charon, Styx, and Cereberus, in a 1940 book called Captain Future. And all three of those are now names for Pluto’s moons. I tell you all this because tonight, you should go outside and stare up at the sky and write whatever future you want for yourself. Conjure up something amazing. The time of reactionaries has run its course; it is now a time for visionaries.
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