3rd Planet from the Sun Day...

Silly, but apropo.  We're destroying our planet willingly.  I call that stupid.

Ok, that was yesterday, but I was busy yesterday so today is my Earth Day rant.  I love Earth Day.  And in the near future, I'll write about how I feel we're treating the Earth.  I know that's what the day is really about; finding out how you can help promote people friendly ecosystems and living with our environment rather than destroying it.  But today, I'm in a strange mood.  Thusly, I'm going to talk about days.  No, not another time rant, I'll have plenty of those in the future.  Yesterday was Earth Day.  A day dedicated to a small spherical body hurtling through space at an unimaginably fast rate as it spins around a massive ball of plasma that emits enough radiation to cook you in a second.  Yep, we live on a spaceship.  And we celebrate that spaceship because it's all we have.  But why stop there?  I figure soon enough we'll be sending people to the Moon and Mars.  At first it will be exploratory visits, but eventually I figure we'll be living on those planets.  So, will we have a Moon Day and a Mars Day then?  I mean, we have a day to celebrate pretty much everything else, so why not other planetary bodies in the solar system?

One's a dead ghoul of movie fame, the other a star in the
constellation Orion.

I can envision Jupiter Day, where we all celebrate Galileo for his discovery of the four major moons of Jupiter, and possibly celebrate the existence of life on other worlds.  I mean, Europa is possibly the most probably place to find life in our solar system other than here on Earth, so let's celebrate life elsewhere, too!  Then we could have Saturn Day, where we all hula hoop to celebrate the greatest set of rings in the cosmos (that we know of, and as a side note, if you haven't looked into a telescope to see Saturn's ring system, you're truly missing out, they're amazing).  Of course we could have Betelgeuse Day, and celebrate by watching Beetlejuice all day since they sound so similar.  And of course we'd have to have exoplanet Day, to celebrate all the other Earth like planets we're finding out there, and the not so Earth like planets, too.  We're finding enough so that everyone could dress up as their own planet and no one would have a duplicate costume!

There are so many planetary bodies out there.  I mean, we could all have Pluto Day, but that'd probably get renamed Dwarf Planet Day, and then we'd all have to feel the pain of demotion to a non-Federal Holiday for that one...

In the meantime until all these planetary bodies begin to be recognized with their own days, I'll have to live with plain old Earth Day, it is, after all, the only one we have.