Dept. of Hypotheticals I Don't Have the Time to Write

[swan_tower]

Last night, in a discussion of Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet, I brought up the fact that many astrologers have decided to disregard science's classification and go on treating Pluto as a regular planet(1). And then I said it would be interesting if some pioneering astrologer retooled the system to account for all of the dwarf planets in a new and interesting way, and as a result astrology suddenly started being so laboratory-accurate that even the most defiant of skeptics had to admit that it only didn't work before because the math wasn't quite right yet.

IANAAstrologer, and I don't feel like putting in the research necessary to write the story. But the idea amuses me.



(1) I am told the State of New Mexico has done the same, owing to how the guy who discovered Pluto was New Mexican -- though he was in Arizona at the time of the discovery.

Comments

[ozziel.livejournal.com]

What happens when the scientists who regard pluto as a regular planet strike out at the scientists who don't and it begins the Astrologic Reformation that drags out for hundreds of years with thousands of dead on both sides?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That too.

You could fill an entire anthology with stories about the Pluto Conflict, it seems.