Yall hear what they did to Pluto?
Yall hear what they did to Pluto?
Look how they massacred my boy
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Never realized this site was so anti-Pluto
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That's messed up, right?
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I know that's right
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Lol weak ass "planet" like if we let that scrub in we would have like 50 planets or sth absolute joke
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There goes the neighborhood.
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GOOD post
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If Pluto’s a planet the moon may as well be one
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The ability to demote a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.
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demonstrates that fact by choking one person and still needing to hold out your hand in choking motion with a clear sign of sight to do so really you or anyone could have also just shot the guy
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Yeah, doing the Kylo thing of redirecting blaster bolts midair would have made more canonical sense
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Jokes aside, why do people see "dwarf planet" as a demotion? It's simply is different type of planet. It's literally still called a planet, a dwarf one.
It's not a demotion, it's a description. People don't say a small intestine is not an intestine anymore or is somehow lesser than the large intestine.
Is it because people think being a dwarf is bad? Is it some religious thing where evangelicals are trying to throw shade at science for "changing its mind"? If a dwarf planet isn't a real planet, is a dwarf human not a real person?
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Is it some religious thing where evangelicals are trying to throw shade at science for "changing its mind"
It's not religious necessarily, but it is absolutely tied in with cultural anti-intellectualism. I'd say astronomers are catching a stray on this one as a result of all of the other things that have been turned into culture war political talking points.
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It's possibly as simple as it being part of recitation when kids learned the solar system's planets and now it's just not. Some folks have a real hard time wrapping their head around the idea that a 'fact' they learned and knew their whole life has been decided changed. Or maybe that isn't it. I dunno. My concern for Pluto is mostly just for shitpost value. I don't really give a rip whether it can clear its own orbit or not.
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Rock and Stone is good in my book.
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Jokes aside, why do people see "dwarf planet" as a demotion? It's simply is different type of planet. It's literally still called a planet, a dwarf one.
It's also not like it's the first time. The dwarf planet Ceres was once considered a planet until it was reclassified in light of so many other objects sharing its orbit.
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The IAU redefinition, which only 441 out of nearly 10,000 members were present for the vote for it, and did not have the six months of advance notice required by their own bylaws, and is not at all used in the scientific literature apart from explicitly talking about the definition itself, made it explicit that they do not consider dwarf planets to be planets.
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STOP THE COUNT!
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Removed by mod
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Oh you mean that glorified asteroid?
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Maybe if he didn't kidnap his wife, we wouldn't be so mad.
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Saying Pluto isn't a planet is a huge L for astronomy and is 100% corelated to the stemification of our world.
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Nice video. Didn't expect to be convinced today that the Moon is a planet
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I personally very much like that our solar system is possibly filled with hundreds of planets
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Huh, and here I was thinking that the pluto thing had actual scientific backing. I am now Pluto's strongest defender.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Pluto? Like the user?
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Trump's changing all the gulf names, I hope he decides Pluto is a planet again.
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Scientists should've went with the 50 planets approach for a while, then people would be relieved when they decide to axe ice boi.
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4.6 billion years, just a kid
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3h45m youtube video essay "The Rise and Fall of Pluto" incoming
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The dog?
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