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Well of course that was the exception they had to come up with for their contrived rule. The exception is: “whatever it takes to make pluto not a planet”. Since the vote was agenda fueled and not a scientific discussion.

Once something new is discovered and breaks the rules they will have to modify the contrived rule to keep pluto not a planet.

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athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Hold on. What agenda wants Pluto to not be a planet?

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- qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Someone printed out a buncha shirts with only 8 solar orbits in the system. Obviously easier to lobby Pluto off the team than to reprint the shirts.
  
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  - mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Tbf, if you were going to keep Pluto in the definition you’d have to include 200+ other orbits
    
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  - sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What is going to be funny is if/when they discover planet 9, and all the apparent Pluto superfans just utterly lose their shit when they attempt to comprehend that there can be another actual planet, and no, pluto still doesn’t count.
    
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  - Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    And they would have gotten away with it, if not for that one guy arguing about it on Lemmy in 2026.
    
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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  "Something something something jews"
  
  This guy, probably
  
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piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And what agenda is that? To mine the planet in secret so not to upset the environmentalists?

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yes, that’s how science goes. Simple explanations and definitions often fall apart upon further discovery and require caveats that sometimes even reinforce the intention.

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- nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I agree except in this instance the goal was to keep Earth’s classification important. No other scientific objective. Just seemed very geocentric to me.
  
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