Try to See As Much of It As You Can

We're all for Earth Day and all that around here, but when are the other planets going to get days? Or maybe just days for some of the inner planets, since you may stand in awe of the gas giants, but it's hard to feel much of a connection to them. Venus and Mars, on the other hand, while uninhabitable by people until we get around to terraforming them, are cousin planets.

Lilly was tasked to come up with "Earth Week" illustrations and a slogan or two for school over the weekend, along with the rest of her class, I figure. She asked for a little help, so I suggested slogans like "Earth: Be Glad It's Not Venus," to continue the non-terran planetary theme, or "Earth is Wonderful, Except for Tornadoes and Stuff," but these were deemed useless.

"Save the Earth" has long bothered me. The Earth's going to be around until the Sun vaporizes it. Just how habitable the planet will be between now and then, for the likes of us, is the question.