Comment on Truth hurts!

gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone who complains about this are the same people who whinged about the change of Pluto’s status as a planet.

  In that, they are clinging to nostalgia instead of embracing a new, wondrous truth. Feathers and fur on dinosaurs shows an entirely new way of imagining the world before us, just like Pluto’s downgrade was simply because we found potentially thousands of more Pluto’s.

  I think a lot of people broadly are insecure about change right now. Stability feels precious, and this nostalgic retreat is being leveraged by anti-science groups.

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For real though - people will insist that Pluto is a planet but not even know about Eris.

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    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ceres is super cool though I will always have a spot for Pluto.

      Makemake is rad though, so fast it warped.

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      • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There is a fantastic array of worldlets out there. I am so excited for Lucy and getting first glimpses of worlds we’ve never seen like the Trojans dragged along by Jupiter. We are so fortunate to be in an age where we get to see these sights. I feel like it’s easy to forget just how amazing this entire thing is, that we’re seeing the surface of places beyond Earth… and so far, most of them have been unique and surprising in some way.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pluto actually got a promotion to the King of the dwarf planets, rather than the least of the rocky planets.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve also just now decided that all those spiny backed donosors? They were just dummy thicc and they needed extra spine bone to support all that cheek

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except when you actually read about the change in Pluto’s status and how unscientific it actually is.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh? Do explain, and pretend I don’t actually know a lot about planetary science.

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      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pluto’s downgrade was simply because we found potentially thousands of more Pluto’s.

        The argument I’ve seen skips the step that the new definition was created to include those other Pluto like objects. They jump right to how the new planet definition was updated to not have overlap or ambiguity and therefor was about creating a way to exclude pluto rather than creating a definition that doesn’t lead to have declaring there are now 50 planets.

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      • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s because the definition includes things that aren’t really about the object itself and more about where it is. And also how inconsistent it is, as Mercury isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium and yet is explicitly included as a planet by the IAU. Nevermind the fact that the new definition was speed voted and approved by less than 400 astronomers in a convention where 2500+ people attended, let alone not even being discussed with the larger scientific community.

        But hey, if you’d rather dismiss my points because of an url, you do you. Not like this changes our everyday live anyway.

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who stands to gain from Pluto not being a planet?

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      • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Jews.

        Obviously.

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      • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s about keeping the solar system small and simple. There would be tens of planets, in the old definition.

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey!! Don’t bash Pluto!!!

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pluto is a wonderful, amazing and beautiful world. I will never forget the awe I felt when I saw the first images when New Horizons blasted past it, the colors and textures and vivid landscapes and variety and hazy atmosphere layers, an utter treat, literally brought tears to my eyes that I got to see something I thought I would never see in my lifetime.

      All that said, it’s fine it’s been reclassified, it takes nothing away from the world and the dwarf planets are ALL interesting and worth admiring.

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• dovahking@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Agreed. It always irked me that the ancestors of birds look more like lizards than birds, when the ancestors of crocodiles looked pretty much the same.

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