The Tenth Planet & a Much More Peaceful World

Did you know that on July 30th, 2005 our Solar System "received" a tenth planet?

At the time, due to my work, I was reading an obscene amount of news a day and I learned this (something that today would have passed fully unnoticed in my news-free life). At that time also, I found that the magazine New Scientist was doing a survey, asking people how they thought the new planet could be called.

I remember how at that time I daily read news that made me extremely sad. They were all related to the war in Iraq and its many twists, derivations and consequences.

Looking back to this today, something called my attention and I thought it worth sharing. The name I voted for at the time, was "Pax" (you can see the article quoting my choice here: New Scientist article). The truth is that if it had not been for this article, I would have completely forgotten this. I found it by chance today. But that day, that name came to me immediately when I saw the question, and I justified it by saying that Peace was what we wanted at the time they discovered the planet, yet it seemed so far away.

The 10th planet was named Sedna and I forgot the whole thing. But today, this memory brought the wonderful realization that the world we live in today is a much more peaceful world than the world of 2005. That is something to be very grateful for.

I'm happy about that! (And of course... "my" world is a million times more peaceful because I don't watch or read any news at all).