• Andrew
• Jul 6,2008
• In: News

Mercury’s Shrinking?

Recent studies performed from flyby’s of Mercury, by the “Messenger” Spacecraft (not sponsored by the IMInitiative) have shown that the smallest planet in our solar system is getting even smaller.

They say the planet has contacted by more than one mile in diameter over its history and this is probably due to the planet’s core slowly cooling.

Now, I originally got confused and thought “wait, don’t things expand when they cool?” but then realized that was just water and I’m retarded. I was about to spend this whole blog ranting about how Mercury was breaking the laws of science and how we ought to blow the damn thing up, however now have no choice but to talk about growth and shrinking. Does this mean if I go live in a very warm climate for a few years, I’ll grow several times faster? Then I could come home and be the tallest kid in class! Yeah, it would be completely bad-ass. Maybe Mercury’s core will keep cooling and it will keep shrinking, this way we won’t have to worry about it anymore. All it does is require more ink when we print posters of the solar system…