mnemonicmonkeys
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- Comment on Mama! 11 hours ago:
This epicenter is just outside of the Son
*Sometimes. The other planets can counterbalance Jupiter’s effect on the barycenter to pull it back into the surface of the Sun.
Also, it’s Sun, not Son
- Comment on Mama! 12 hours ago:
On the plus side, we live at a time where we can still observe the cosmic microwave background radiation and total solar eclipses.
Since the moon’s orbit grows by 3" every year, after a few million years it’ll be far enough away that it won’t completely eclipse the sun anymore.
And in a billion year’s time, the CMB will be redshifted so far into deep radio wavelengths that it’ll be impossible to observe
- Comment on Anon finds enlightenment 1 day ago:
Goddamnit, you reminded me of the sentient cumsock filled with nickles in Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Comment on Anon is Dimitri 2 days ago:
Specifically Walmart customers
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 days ago:
You seriously can’t really be this fucking stupid. Am I getting punked?
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 4 days ago:
Assuming you live in a developed country. If you make your own mud hut in the wilderness, you own the house but you’re definitely not one of the world’s richest
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 4 days ago:
Isn’t that half the plan of Helion Energy?
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 days ago:
Except Jupiter is very clearly not a star. It’s an order of magnitude off of the mass required for fusion.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 days ago:
- Comment on He took it literally 4 days ago:
No. Assuming they’re smart isn’t necessary, nor is it realistic.
All you need to assume is that they’re malicious. They are rewarded for fucking people over. That’s all that matters
Now grow up and quit insisting on having the last word in the argument as if that makes you right
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 days ago:
Notice the exception is written very specifically just to keep pluto from “clearing” is orbit.
There are tons of other Kuiper Belt objects in Pluto’s orbit. This wasn’t an exception written to spite Pluto. If you can attribute any malice to the definition, it comes from not wanting to include Eris, Sedna, Makemake, Quorua, and 200+ other Kuiper Belt objects as planets. Pluto was just caught in the crossfire because it fits with the other Kuiper Belt objects because it is one.
“orbit the Sun”. Not a star but very specifically the Sun.
This is a level of knitpicking that is completely childish. Grow up.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
Aka the Charon-Pluto binary dwarf planet system
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
Tbf, if you were going to keep Pluto in the definition you’d have to include 200+ other orbits
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
Size is a factor. But not everything.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
What’s important though is that it’s large enough to hold an atmosphere (at least if it had one).
Define an atmosphere. Because there’s multiple asteroids that technically have one, albeit extremely thin ones. And be careful about being too nitpicky, as Mercury’s atmosphere is just it’s rock being vaporized due to its proximity to the sun
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
*Lagrange points
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
there’s also a dwarf planet in the inner solar system
It’s arguable about whether it’s in the “Inner Solar System”. Ceres is inside the asteroid belt, and the asteroid belt is the separator between the inner and outer system. It’s like floating in the middle of The Rhine and debating whether you’re in Germany or France
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
Failed stars
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
but don’t try to justify ignoring the other few dozen planetoids poorly.
There’s 200+ kuiper belt objects that are large enough to be spherical, and most don’t have names
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
The barycenter of the Earth-Moon system sits well within Earth’s radius. There is no/definition under which the Earth-Moon system is considered binary
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
Then YOU come up with a definition of a planet that manages to include Pluto while simultaneously excluding Ceres, Eris, Cedna, Makemake, and 200+ other objects in the solar system large enough to be spherical, some of which are larger than Pluto
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
"Something something something jews"
- This guy, probably
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
And for neptune not clearing its orbit due to pluto crossing that orbit?
Ah, yes. This is clearly justification for Pluto to become a planet! /s
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
it just makes the determining what is a planet more difficult.
If this is true, then please tell me what totally non-arbitrary reason there was for Ceres to not be universally considered a planet?
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
And Cedna. And Eris. And Makemake. And Haumea. And…
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 days ago:
The barycenter between the Earth and Luna is well within the surface of the Earth. There is no definition where it counts as a binary system
- Comment on He took it literally 5 days ago:
Assuming the cops are dumb (enough) is a really risky strategy.
I am not saying to assume that they’re dumb. I’m saying to assume that they’re malicious
- Comment on He took it literally 6 days ago:
and the cops will buy it (they won’t).
The vast majority of cops are really dumb, so I disagree with thus statement. However, cops are highly motivated to not give a shit about whether a suspect is actually guilty. They’re motivated to get a confession or conviction, regardless of innocence or guilt.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
My point being that corn only needs to be boiled to be easy to eat. Going around like it’s completely inedible is ridiculous
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
Tbf, the Romans were fucking stupid. They sweetened their water with lead and designed a calendar where the year was 355 days long