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Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?
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🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸 sh.itjust.works Flower@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-04-29
#52 · Quote Reply
Lemmywinks wrote:
Gonggong The gorilla from Super Monkey Ball?

It's also a god in Chinese mythology.
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Lemmywinks lemmy.world icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-04-07
#53 · Quote Reply
🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸 wrote:
It's also a god in Chinese mythology.

That makes a lot more sense
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webp mander.xyz webp@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-09
#54 · Quote Reply
VitoRobles wrote:
You think the sun is flat? Bro... The UNIVERSE is flat.

It's true
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t_berium lemmy.world t_berium@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-24
#55 · Quote Reply
NigelFrobisher wrote:
The argument that Pluto would be a planet if it were in a different orbital track is pretty disingenuous, because in a different orbital track it might also be a moon of Jupiter or just flung out into interstellar space.

Yeah, and if my grandma had a weener, she'd have been my grandpa.
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_haha_oh_wow_ sh.itjust.works _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
#56 · Quote Reply
eleijeep wrote:
It's too late, I'm already going up. Top! Of! The! Well! Sir!

The finest!
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ivanovsky lemmy.world ivanovsky@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#57 · Quote Reply

They say Pluto is not a planet. Do you think that Pluto gives a shit?
https://youtu.be/kK0KPuH32mc
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JackbyDev programming.dev JackbyDev@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-13
#58 · Quote Reply
modus wrote:
And the sun is flat. Fight me.

It is known.
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Ophrys lemmy.dbzer0.com Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-23
#59 · Quote Reply
JackbyDev wrote:
if you wanna call Pluto a a planet, do it. The IAU is not going to arrest you or something.

Don't believe this person, I said it was a planet and spent 5years locked away in the planetarium
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kat_angstrom lemmy.world kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#60 · Quote Reply
Ophrys wrote:
Don't believe this person, I said it was a planet and spent 5years locked away in the planetarium

That sounds awesome. Did you get to look at all the exhibits?
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BradleyUffner lemmy.world BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#61 · Quote Reply

This kind of thing just fuels the anti-science conservative agenda. Knock it off.
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maso lemmus.org maso@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-04-03
#62 · Quote Reply
NigelFrobisher wrote:
The argument that Pluto would be a planet if it were in a different orbital track is pretty disingenuous, because in a different orbital track it might also be a moon of Jupiter or just flung out into interstellar space.

I think the argument was more of proposing that the definition of its own orbital track is not informative of anything of the body itself but instead only of what is surrounding the object. The argument seems to be an extension of the planetary scientist school of thought (definition of planet should describe planet) vs the astronomical side (name describes motion/in relation to its surroundings)
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rumimevlevi sh.itjust.works rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-07
#63 · Quote Reply
BradleyUffner wrote:
This kind of thing just fuels the anti-science conservative agenda. Knock it off.

Explain
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BradleyUffner lemmy.world BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#64 · Quote Reply
rumimevlevi wrote:
Explain

It rejects science and calls back to "back in my day" folksy rhetoric as the only "evidence" that it should regain planetary status, and frames the entire change as a bureaucratic process being run by out of touch elites. It's conservative populism at it's finest. Straight out of their playbook.
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AwesomeLowlander sh.itjust.works AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-12
#65 · (edited) Quote Reply
Ophrys wrote:
Don't believe this person, I said it was a planet and spent 5years locked away in the planetarium

(No, this is not a personal opinion).
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finallymadeanaccount lemmy.world finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-31
#66 · Quote Reply
VitoRobles wrote:
You think the sun is flat? Bro... The UNIVERSE is flat.

Listen, like birds and Australia, the universe doesn't exist.
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finallymadeanaccount lemmy.world finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-31
#67 · Quote Reply
decolo wrote:
wait what? how would that be possible

Elon Musk said by the end of 2026.
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finallymadeanaccount lemmy.world finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-31
#68 · Quote Reply

The IAU can go to buggery: Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet!
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el_twitto lemmy.zip el_twitto@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-08-08
#69 · Quote Reply

Pluto is only 68% of the size of the Earth's moon. It is only about 2.5 times larger than Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system.

A large part of science is refining your understanding as contradictory evidence is found. I used to think Pluto should be a planet, and even met Clyde Tombaugh once, but I have absolutely no concerns about Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet. It is just a label and our understanding evolves.
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Ophrys lemmy.dbzer0.com Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-23
#70 · Quote Reply
kat_angstrom wrote:
That sounds awesome. Did you get to look at all the exhibits?

No I had to stay in the toilet
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caseyweederman lemmy.ca caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-30
#71 · Quote Reply
finallymadeanaccount wrote:
Listen, like birds and Australia, the universe doesn't exist.

Just a conspiracy of cartographers
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caseyweederman lemmy.ca caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-30
#72 · Quote Reply
VitoRobles wrote:
You think the sun is flat? Bro... The UNIVERSE is flat.

Fuck. It is, isn't it?
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