These kinds of stories are always exciting but I worry about the results. People see how adorable baby jupiters are and forget that adopting a planet is a many-billions-of-lifetimes worth of responsibility. You can’t just flush them down the toilet or drop them at the shelter once they stop being babies and start being willful adolescents. Perhaps the article should contain a link to a no-kill shelter where people could consider adopting an older planet in need of a caring home. I understand there’s a lovely M-class planet in the Sol system whose former owners have treated it rather poorly.
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