Always the last to know...
Always the last to know...
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My son's favorite shirt:
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Where can I get this? Lol
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I think my wife got it on Amazon
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The real problem here is the nostalgia factor. A lot of people grew up having the planets ingrained into their brains with various mnemonics. Hard to say goodbye to “pizza”.
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Mary's Virgin Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbour
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MEin VEtter ERklärt Mir Jeden Samstag Unsere NEun PLaneten. Is a German mnemonic
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MEin Vater ERklärt Mir Jeden SAmstag Unseren Nachthimmel
is what I heard. Seems parents post '05 already adapted and overcame.
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I don't think mnemonic translates correctly into German ;p
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What happened:
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mr show goat
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If Emilia is a scientist at heart and heard that Pluto was reclassified because we found many more like it, she'd probably be fascinated. Mind blown, even, that we've found Sedna, Ceres, Makemake, a bunch of others I've forgotten the name of, and a few more that just have a number.
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On the other hand, she was just introduced to the concept of things like interstellar travel and aliens, so "someone took away one of our planets" wouldn't have been all that far-fetched. (Especially since the dialogue in the post doesn't actually mention Pluto. Maybe she thought it was Venus.)
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Granted, we found Ceres, christened it a planet, and demoted it to asteroid long before we found Pluto.
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There's a LOT of dwarf planets we've found since Pluto is what happened, basically.
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Kinda silly when 'dwarf planet' has planet still in the name.
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If you want to include all the dwarf planets then we've got more than 9. Pluto was only the latest object to be called a planet and reclassified. No one complains about the others.
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I really don't get why that would be a problem. Personally, I would be delighted if we had more than 9 planets. "Oh no! We can't have Pluto be a planet cuz then we'd have 5-10 more bodies that we'd have to call a planet too!" So what? Give me 15 planets; hell give me 50, that sounds so much cooler than reducing the number of bodies in the solar system people care about by 1.
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Even sillier to get pissed on behalf of a giant space rock that doesn't care what you call it.
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You're right. We should call them planitos (or planitas if the dwarf planet is female)
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Now I'm curious: How publicised was Pluto's discovery in 1930? Did the public care? Would Earhart likely have learnt about it before she vanished in 1937?
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They were basically calling it the great American scientific discovery at the time. Which is probably why some people were so loath to accept the "demotion."
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Well, it was definitely in a lot of newspapers: https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=ninth+planet+discovered&tbs=,bkt:s,cdr:1,cd_min:1+jan+1929,cd_max:31+dec+1931&num=100
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Angela Collier did a video about the whole fiasco from a physicists prospective which is fun https://youtu.be/TwCbMJmgShg
Iirc she talks about how it's kinda BS, caused public outrage, and might have harmed science communication in the mind of the public.
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Pluto is a planet and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
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Pluto was a planet, once. The crown jewel of the Plutonian Empire. But the Plutonians got greedy. They dug too deep in search of plutonium and awoke a terrible horror. Now all that's left of Pluto is a cloud of asteroids and a celestial dwarf, barren and uninhabitable.
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It's Morty's fault.
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I thought he was a mouse's pet dog.
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The problem with Pluto being a planet is that we would also have to classify something like thousands of other objects as planets as well. That's the whole reason it's not classified as one anymore.
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Correct. It is a dwarf planet.
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