Attribution: NASA and ESA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper and Phyllis’s disappointment in hearing the forecast for clouds that will prevent their seeing the rare eight-planet lineup on tap for tonight.
They were heartened, however, to learn that the solar system will repeat an exact version of this planetary show again in 2492 at which time it may not be cloudy and the keeper and Phyllis will be viewing things from different vantage points.
Among the things they will be viewing in that far distant future, of course, will be planet Earth dried up to the size of a walnut while yet another war rages among demented squirrels to determine which one gets to bury the walnut shell.
Planet Pluto, in the meantime will have been renamed Epstein and its orbit enlarged to provide energy for Musk Heights, a settlement of trillionaires on Mars……
(In an unfortunate development, the keeper has been taken into protective custody and ordered to refrain from further internet contact. Phyllis, on the other hand will be joining her Silver Badger friends for their regular Saturday afternoon—2 pm, democracy demonstration out on Gammon Road at Tree Lane. They invite joiners.)
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