For one day, everything was different.

Back in the year 2006 the scientific community made a momentous and controversial decision to formally define the word “planet”. The decision itself wasn’t controversial, but the fact that the new definition excluded the former planet of Pluto was met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Eventually nearly everyone that was upset with the declassification of Pluto as a planet moved on to being upset by other things on the internet, came to accept the reasonings behind the new definition, or just generally forgot about the whole thing.

What few were aware of, however, is that for one day, late in 2006, the scientific community had had enough of the whining about Pluto and, after many a collective beer, gave in to the public outcry and re-instated Pluto as a Planet, following the announcement with a general “There, are you happy now?” Then, for good measure they actually re-classified it again, dubbing Pluto a Super Planet. With a “try this on for size”, they threw in Eris and Haumea as planets as well. They then went on to declare Europa a planet, and reframe Jupiter as its moon, with the argument that movement in space is relativistic, and also, as one branch of the scientific community stated, “Why bloody not?”

At this point the general consensus among the scientific community was that no one really cared about anything actually making any sense, and the latest round of shots had started to really kick in, so they decided to go all in and classify Alpha Centauri as a galaxy. When they did not receive negative feedback for this (the waitress was busy helping other customers at the time), they moved on to declare that going forward grasshoppers would be considered to be birds, nachos a noble gas, and Cape Canaveral both a continent and an independent city-state. They were three pages into their new nation’s constitution when they thankfully passed out and were taxied home by the sympathetic performance art community.

Fortunately the decrees of the night were quickly overturned by the scientific community the next day, once the hangovers had worn off.