My son’s favorite shirt:
I’ll forget Pluto together with the 200+ other dwarf planets, thank you very much.
I understand the rationale for demoting Pluto, and I don’t disagree at all
It’s not even a demotion, it’s just reclassification. There’s no hierarchy of importance of solar system objects. People against a more accurate understanding of reality are dumb.
Just need a bigger mnemonic
You’re a monster.
Where can I get this? Lol
I think my wife got it on Amazon
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”.
Mary’s Virgin Explanation Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbour
There was no scenario where your precious mnemonics got preserved. If Pluto was still a planet, then Ceres would be too and it would fuck them all up.
What happened:
mr show goat
That’s messed up.
Is that Bruton Gaster?
There’s a LOT of dwarf planets we’ve found since Pluto is what happened, basically.
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.
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.)
Granted, we found Ceres, christened it a planet, and demoted it to asteroid long before we found Pluto.
Kinda silly when ‘dwarf planet’ has planet still in the name.
Just change the name. Can’t be Pluto, but maybe Gimli will work.
Do we name asteroids after hobbits, then?
No, but we’ve come close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2675_Tolkien
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.
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.
Just because you only care about them because they’re not called planets doesn’t mean nobody else does. You are allowed to enjoy anything you want. Go learn about all the dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and everything else!
Planet is a useful term to describe a particular thing. We could keep adding more things to the list, but then it becomes less useful. We have multiple words for different things for a reason. A fruit isn’t a vegetable just because they both grow on plants, for example.
You’re right. We should call them planitos (or planitas if the dwarf planet is female)
Even sillier to get pissed on behalf of a giant space rock that doesn’t care what you call it.
