Comment on Say hello to Bary

Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m kinda stunned that it’s EVER outside the sun.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s the first thing I checked reading the og post before I was about to write ‘there is no was it’s outside the sun!’ … its such a tiny supergassy mass.

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  • Zuriz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Outside the sun? Typical Visiblist. The Alfvén surface would like to have a word. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfvén_surface

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• setInner234@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, while we are being ‘that guy’, factoid is one of those words which has changed its meaning by being used wrongly for so long that the original meaning has all but vanished.

  A factoid is technically supposed to be something resembling fact, but not actual fact. (The Greek suffix ‘-oid’ normally being used for that purpose, like in paranoid, “like knowledge” or asteroid, “like a star”).

  The best thing about factoid, is that factoid is now a factoid. Because it resembles what it is not lol…

  Anyway, nowadays, you are allowed to use it the way you did, at least in the descriptivist world view. The prescriptivists may disagree, however. And those people are often ‘that guy’ ;)

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  • TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Since definitions are not facts, the word factoid itself being a factoid is a factoid

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    • setInner234@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like this

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’d say that the original statement not including “sometimes” does in fact make it the ‘not a fact’ type of factoid!

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    • setInner234@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good point!

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, now I want to know if there’s a regular schedule to the Jupiter-Sun barycenter being in or outside of the Sun, and how we can schedule holidays around it.

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