Thank you, Science

for proving what poets have known for centuries

“What a lucky sack of stars”*

Please indulge me for a moment while I quote myself in this post, because, honestly, if you can’t quote yourself, whom can you?

Two years ago, I wrote a little ditty called On the Rocks as a response to details revealed by New Horizons that Pluto (our frozen, outlier planette) exhibits signs of volcanic activity, which in Ast…