"You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale. Most schoolroom charts show the planets coming one after the other at neighborly intervals-the outer giants actually cast shadows over each other in many illustrations-but this is a necessary deceit to get them all on the same piece of paper."
What other things are we ignorant about? Has technology really helped us? Are the biggest discoveries stumble upon by accident? What does make a planet a planet?
This reading was interesting because it talks about the mistakes that people make. Usually stories praises all the scientist or who ever studies planets. What I liked about this reading is when they talk about how Pluto has a large moon and how no one ever had noticed. How could they have noticed before? I know this was in 1978 but im assuming that we had enough technology to notice the biggest moon in the solar system.
