Stupidity Watch 1

Written with the help of Google Gemini We grew up knowing the Solar System held nine planets, but then we were abruptly told we only had eight. This loss occurred in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) set new criteria for planethood. While Pluto was spherical and orbited the Sun, it failed the critical test: it had not gravitationally cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Pluto orbits within the Kuiper Belt, a crowded zone of icy debris, proving it is just one of many large objects out there. Now, let's turn that same objective logic toward our Moon, and the true orbital dynamics reveal a path to having nine major planets once again. The Moon Orbits the Sun The profound irony lies in the history of language: The thing we call the Moon, the single object that gave the name to every other satellite in the universe is, itself, not a moon at all. For the entirety of civilization, the single "moon" humanity knew was the only object in the entire solar sy...

     When Jeff Bezos heard about Elon Musk wanting to start a rocket company, he actually started his own rocket company Blue Origin first in 2000 while Elon Musk was still making money with Tesla stock and becoming the richest man in the world, and then Musk started his rocket company SpaceX in 2002. Then in 2004 Richard Branson who owns Virgin Airlines launched Virgin Galactic and the three billionaires became known as the, “billionaire rocketeers.”      Well 23 years later now at the end of 2023 in the first week of December only one of them was successful in reaching space and turning it into a profitable business venture, and that was Elon Musk and SpaceX, that has been a successful commercial rocket launching company launching payloads as well as people to space at least to the international space station and to LEO. His Low Earth Orbit satellite array called Starlink provides free internet to places on Earth that have never had access to in...