I support pluto

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• HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For the curious, Pluto takes 248 years to complete one lap around the Sun

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … and it’s been doing it for long enough that it, and all the other plutinos, have settled into a 2:3 resonant orbit with Neptune, which takes 165 years to orbit the sun by itself.

    Space is really big and the timescales are really long, in a way which doesn’t really make sense on human scales, except for things which are so fast that they also don’t make sense on human scales, like core-collapse supernovas.

    The good news is that we’re good at doing maths and we’ve built some big computers to do that maths, so we’ve no problems ‘popping a few zeros’ into the sums that we do.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Full rights for Pluto+

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From Pluto’s point of view it hasn’t even been a whole year yet.

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “damn these bitches pretentious as fuck. I ain’t even done one lap and they done did 55 and took away my rights”

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• Iunnrais@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The emotional flashback against the definition of a planet was probably foreseeable, and I think the framing of it as a “demotion” was what makes people bitter to this day. People’s mental model still has an orrery of 9 objects spinning around the sun, with that last one “cast off” because it’s “too small”. That garners pity.

  But note that mental model… it doesn’t even include Ceres. That got “kicked out of the club” too, and no one cares. Why? Because it’s part of the asteroid belt. That’s not a demotion, it’s a reassignment to something different but just as cool!

  And yet…… that’s EXACTLY THE SAME CASE AS PLUTO. Pluto isn’t just the 9th and smallest object circling the sun far far away, it’s a member of the Kupier Belt! And that’s awesome, there’s a whole second belt! But Kupier is hard to pronounce from the spelling, and Kupier isn’t a sci-fi common word like asteroid…

  Not to mention that using the adjective “dwarf” just sounds insulting.

  Sigh. Pluto is definitely not a planet, but the terminology definition conference definitely screwed up the framing bad.

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  • justastranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I for one look forward to Planet X becoming Planet IX.

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• Arigion@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not Pluto, it’s a scabby head.

  You can’t unsee it now.

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  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy shit you savage! I had some bad baron Harkonnen going on

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