• Klear@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You don’t ever see people calling for Ceres to be proclaimed planet, all they care about is Pluto.

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      @[email protected] is it better for space/societal advancement if we have a nice neat small finite number of planets in our solar system, if even politicians can remember how many there are so Earth feels a little less like a statistic?

      Kinda stretching here, IDK

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      3 days ago

      I think Pluto having been widely regarded as a planet before and having a visible heart shape on it’s surface is an easier sell. I say they are both planets.

      What’s the problem with having many many planets in our solar system?

      You also can’t find a good problem with this, can you?

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        I say they are both planets.

        Cool. Can you name all planets in the Solar System, in the correct order?

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            3 days ago

            Yeah. To answer your question, I see that as the problem. If you don’t, well, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.

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              Do you know why you apply this logic to planets, but not stars?

              I also can’t name all the planets outside of our solar system, but that seems to be less of an issue for you.