Oh, Honey. The Earth will still be around long after you died. Don't worry about it. Live your best Life while you're on it. Hell, maybe even have some kids. Life is better spent with children. Go and explore! Do something you want to do, or have to do, or need to do. Going for a walk is always going to happen but where it happens is up to you. Who you meet is always going to surprise you. You're not waiting for Life. Life is waiting for you.
Those examples are already classed as Dwarf Planets which is fine but the problem is Dwarf Planets are not ranked as a third class of planet but as non-planets.
And that is a purely human choice to protect what was already known instead of expanding the horizons.
Again and again I tell ppl that it's ok for Pluto to be reclassified. Hell, it even got their own group of objects named after it - Plutoids! It's fine and was a necessary correction. Pluto's way more chill about it than the ppl who are whiteknighting.
If Pluto got declassified for not clearing its orbit, does that mean Neptune should be declassified because it hasn't cleared Pluto from its orbit? Honest question.
It's way more about its size than the orbit. You may look up the definition of dwarf planets (that's what it is now) to give you a better understanding of it (hope that doesn't sound snarky but I'm busy rn and can't link smth myself).
I'm just playing around, I honestly don't care one way or the other personally/emotionally, only intellectually would I say it's the right decision because we need a good classification system, and we needed it then, before we started finding exo-planets en masse
Totally on your side regarding the reliability and "goodness" of the classification system. It's also (imho) a great example for a healthy scientific falsification process. That's what science is about in a nutshell. We correct ourselves when we get more information on the way forward.
yeah, guess I could have used a more exact word than good there : P but, yeah, was meaning 'good' as in... a classification system that has ambiguity, or, worse (which was the case here) no clear and defined specifications at all, is a bad one, however, a classification system that is accounts for all known distinctions, allowing for hard lined separation of all items in the batch, is a good one or something like that
Timpani
Elle is amazing.
possiblyafakeaccount
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Elle Cordova is a treasure
meanMemes
Happy 3arth Day 2026
GravyEducation
Go Earth! One more year! One more year!
Sticklebrickk
Oh, Honey. The Earth will still be around long after you died. Don't worry about it. Live your best Life while you're on it. Hell, maybe even have some kids. Life is better spent with children. Go and explore! Do something you want to do, or have to do, or need to do.
Going for a walk is always going to happen but where it happens is up to you. Who you meet is always going to surprise you.
You're not waiting for Life.
Life is waiting for you.
VagabondEngineer
Sticklebrickk
Us in 20 years
GravyEducation
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cno4MGdoZHV3czJ6aTFleXZqcnJ3eGMwc3JkMmUxcDJuanBzYnFibyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/105OwsN7a4UQ2Q/200w.webp
VagabondEngineer
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eTl0YjNyOG1lN3Y5d2RwNzNiOTE4bmUwcm5hamVyZzhlcTN2ZGc1MyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/l0O9x3XqhzZlLJqRq/200w.webp
tinyfootprints
No sass from Mercury?
wadatahmydamie
Mercury calls Venus toxic
tinyfootprints
Ok, that tracks.
Quizz25S
Pluto is not gonna quit
'Cause Pluto can take a hit
And Pluto knows what Pluto is
And Pluto knows that Pluto's
Hot shit
And you know Pluto knows it
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
Pluto is a fraction of the size and mass of The Moon
StellaMatutina
There's also two moons larger than Mercury
LoudBirb
Mercury, however, cleared its orbit of other significant bodies.
GravyEducation
You hear about Pluto? That's messed up https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1azZobWQwazYwcWR1aGtqdmZxdG0xNTduYjdqYzN1d3gwNXA5Z3poMiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/89No6UHzuUam4/200w.webp
OnyxTurret
If we count Pluto, then we should also count 20+ more bodies, and frankly I don't have the room on my diorama.
FailedMitosis
BranDohCalrissian
I liked this. Got sauce?
BranDohCalrissian
Nvm, i already figured it out and went on a whole lolnein rabbit trail ☺️
FailedMitosis
Sorry, I've just seen your reply
michaeloberg
LOLNEIN! He is awesome
TicoMachi
Boop!
quietwalker
Boop *ejaculates probe at mars*
qtRaven
Pluto is absolutely a planet.
ignotoCiResto
whoa, memories! Gotta say, thoo, my memories seem wrong since I remember her with a lightly tanned skin instead of albino white.
ignotoCiResto
uh, it seem I wasnt totally wrong, they whitewashed her from time to time https://www.reddit.com/r/PrettyGuardians/comments/1k9c72o/your_thoughts_on_sailor_plutos_history_of/?show=original
GravyEducation
I'm a dummy i had the OG in the bag, sorry for the double dip
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Nathanyel
Someone should make an animated version of your comment, maybe that makes it less cringe.
powerrangerpl
I said it before and I say it again. I love her voice.
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Pluto taking a block of ice from behind its head is just *chef's kiss*
sverebom
Straight from the kuiper belt.
DevilsAdvocat
ok pluto, you have a right to advocate for yourself, but first, what makes you a planet, and not eris? or even makemake, and ceres?
FuzzyX
Those examples are already classed as Dwarf Planets which is fine but the problem is Dwarf Planets are not ranked as a third class of planet but as non-planets.
And that is a purely human choice to protect what was already known instead of expanding the horizons.
kahooki
Again and again I tell ppl that it's ok for Pluto to be reclassified. Hell, it even got their own group of objects named after it - Plutoids!
It's fine and was a necessary correction.
Pluto's way more chill about it than the ppl who are whiteknighting.
squillis
If Pluto got declassified for not clearing its orbit, does that mean Neptune should be declassified because it hasn't cleared Pluto from its orbit? Honest question.
kahooki
It's way more about its size than the orbit. You may look up the definition of dwarf planets (that's what it is now) to give you a better understanding of it (hope that doesn't sound snarky but I'm busy rn and can't link smth myself).
DevilsAdvocat
I'm just playing around, I honestly don't care one way or the other personally/emotionally, only intellectually would I say it's the right decision because we need a good classification system, and we needed it then, before we started finding exo-planets en masse
kahooki
Totally on your side regarding the reliability and "goodness" of the classification system. It's also (imho) a great example for a healthy scientific falsification process. That's what science is about in a nutshell. We correct ourselves when we get more information on the way forward.
DevilsAdvocat
yeah, guess I could have used a more exact word than good there : P
but, yeah, was meaning 'good' as in... a classification system that has ambiguity, or, worse (which was the case here) no clear and defined specifications at all, is a bad one, however, a classification system that is accounts for all known distinctions, allowing for hard lined separation of all items in the batch, is a good one
or something like that