Comment on Boring ass planet

PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Technically the concept of a planet is a social construct. Scientists have been scurrying around redefining the definition of a planet to exclude asteroids ever since they discovered them. Why can’t they just say that the Earth is a wet asteroid and be done with it?

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  • Liz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My personal definition of planet:

    1. big enough to be spherical
    2. has never been big enough to cause fusion

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      big enough to be spherical

      oh boy

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The world’s biggest ball of string is now a planet.

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      • Liz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        As it should be! Big boy is round!

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it should be “big enough to hold an atmosphere”.

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  • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m going to boycott nasa

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      NASA comms office assistant tries to let off steam by visiting Lemmy, sees your comment, has flashbacks to the letters they read from Americans everyday

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    • Delusional@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I could see trump getting rid of NASA for his own space agency and he’d call it SASA. Super awesome space agency.

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• omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Well I mean why is Mercury still a planet? It didn’t clear it’s own orbit, it just happens to be in an empty orbit.

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  • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Image

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    • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      aktschually mercury is the sun’s moon

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Jupiter is a dwarf planet

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• root_beer@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Venus isn’t a planet either. It’s a hell-sphere. But that makes it even more rad 🤘

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    A hell-sphere that would be easier to fix than Mars, which is an entirely different type of hell-sphere. Just toss in enough ice to make eventual oceans and some cyanobacteria, and it should calm down in a few hundred thousand years.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Maybe looking at it the wrong way. Mars becomes a place to visit. Turn it into an ecosystem full of stuff that can survive the low gravity. Insects and plants. You know after you stripmine it.

      Go visit the weird ass nature reserves from your spinning space habitat.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        That’s certainly an option, but right now it seems most space agencies are totally ignoring Venus as a possibility, and are focused on a Mars colony.

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    • CaptBobbers@mas.to ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      @AngryCommieKender @root_beer
      Floating cities in the clouds of Venus mining carbon dioxide and nitrogen out of the atmosphere, sending all those excess gases to Mars, the Belt, and the moons of the gas giants for terraforming and habitats.

      Car Salesman: * slaps the Venusian atmosphere * "You can fit so many Martians under this bad boy."

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Pluto is nice and colorful

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