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Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:44:49 UTC No. 16554510
Zoomer (born in 2000) here. Is it true that Pluto used to be considered an actual planet in the solar system?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:46:27 UTC No. 16554514
>>16554510
Pluto still is considered an actual planet in the solar system by everyone born in the 20th century.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:48:13 UTC No. 16554518
>>16554510
>>16554514
All these definitions are conventional garbage anyways. There’s very little in common between rocky planets and gas giants. Ganymede is bigger than Mercury by volume. If Pluto is a planet, then so is Charon because their barycenter is outside Pluto. Etc etc etc.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:52:15 UTC No. 16554524
>>16554510
>Zoomer (born in 2000) here. Is it true that Pluto used to be considered an actual planet in the solar system?
Yes, and for a brief time, the asteroids, Vesta, Juno, Pallas, and Ceres were also considered planets.
We had to adopt a stricter definition or pretend that our solar system has about 800 "planets.">>16554514
>Pluto still is considered an actual planet in the solar system by everyone born in the 20th century.
I was born in the 20th century and I do not agree that Pluto is a planet.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:04:58 UTC No. 16554540
>>16554518
>All these definitions are conventional garbage anyways
Yes, so anyone born in the 20th century should default to what they've known since childhood.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:07:57 UTC No. 16554543
>>16554540
You should be consistent at the very least. So if you consider Pluto a planet, then all the other meme rocks in the Kuiper belt are planets. And arguably is Charon as well. So the answer can be anything but 9.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:16:22 UTC No. 16554552
>>16554543
I don't base my definition of a planet on some arbitrary set of criteria. I base it on what I was taught since childhood. I don't care if there's some rock out there 1000 times the size of pluto. Pluto is a planet, and that big rock is just a rock. It's all arbitrary bullshit anyway, so my arbitrary bullshit is just as valid as yours. You and your panel of scientists who decided Pluto isn't a planet can fuck off.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:19:07 UTC No. 16554555
>>16554552
So if you were taught that pigs fly then that's what you'd continue to think? You sound like the perfect golem.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:25:32 UTC No. 16554560
>>16554555
It's more like I was taught birds fly, and then biologists randomly decided
>ackshully those are classified as reptiles now
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:37:41 UTC No. 16554568
>>16554510
"planets" is an archaic concept from when we only had naked eye observations of the sky.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:46:44 UTC No. 16554579
>>16554572
>Pluto discovered in 1930
>I'm pretty sure those were "boomers."
While we're on the subject of people who mindlessly group things together that aren't actually the same...
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:17:05 UTC No. 16554609
>>16554560
And what exactly prevents birds from flying if they're classified as reptiles? Do they get sad from the news?
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:37:32 UTC No. 16554625
>>16554510
formal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EY
progressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoz
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:43:23 UTC No. 16554630
>>16554510
yeah, haha, it was pretty fake and gay, am i right?
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:26:30 UTC No. 16554720
zoomer born 2001 and i remember learning about the discovery of the "tenth planet" eris in preschool and subsequent demotion of pluto
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:31:04 UTC No. 16554722
>>16554552
You were taught a definition that was based on an arbitrary set of criteria
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:36:21 UTC No. 16554724
>>16554510
If you use the only definition that made Pluto a planet then there are ~110 planets.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:00:01 UTC No. 16555022
>>16554722
>You were taught a definition that was based on an arbitrary set of criteria
No shit. And the new definition is arbitrary. Since it's all arbitrary, I'll go with what I was taught my whole life and what I have nostalgia for. Let's not pretend there's any science or rigor at play here. My fee fees are just as valid as any arbititrary criteria some panel of astronomer bureaucrats come up with.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:40:56 UTC No. 16555059
>>16554510
>muh planet
It's Reddit garbage anyway.
This nigga got it right: >>16554518
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:15:09 UTC No. 16555095
In third grade, I made a model of the solar system and that included Pluto as a planet. Our science teacher, Ms. Rodriguez, said my model was the best and the entire class had to applaud when I presented it. Literally everyone clapped but not a meme. It was the best day of my life and no eggheads are going to take away my lived experience. Pluto is a planet and always will be.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:02:34 UTC No. 16555257
>>16555022
Nah I like their definition more than yours
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:09:01 UTC No. 16555269
>>16554510
yes with alongside your mom before she too got reclassified
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:03:05 UTC No. 16555970
2000 is not zoomer