Technically the concept of a planet is a social construct. Scientists have been scurrying around redefining the definition of a planet to exclude asteroids ever since they discovered them. Why can’t they just say that the Earth is a wet asteroid and be done with it?
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PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Nasa is ruining every planet one-by-one. First pluto wasn’t a planet. Then neptune is even more boring and stupid than previously thought. Next thing we know, Mars isn’t a planet anymore because planets aren’t red.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Liz@midwest.social 6 months ago
My personal definition of planet:
- big enough to be spherical
- has never been big enough to cause fusion
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
big enough to be spherical
oh boy
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The world’s biggest ball of string is now a planet.
Liz@midwest.social 6 months ago
As it should be! Big boy is round!
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I think it should be “big enough to hold an atmosphere”.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
I’m going to boycott nasa
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
NASA comms office assistant tries to let off steam by visiting Lemmy, sees your comment, has flashbacks to the letters they read from Americans everyday
Delusional@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I could see trump getting rid of NASA for his own space agency and he’d call it SASA. Super awesome space agency.
omega_x3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well I mean why is Mercury still a planet? It didn’t clear it’s own orbit, it just happens to be in an empty orbit.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
sparkle@lemm.ee 6 months ago
aktschually mercury is the sun’s moon
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jupiter is a dwarf planet
root_beer@midwest.social 6 months ago
Venus isn’t a planet either. It’s a hell-sphere. But that makes it even more rad 🤘
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A hell-sphere that would be easier to fix than Mars, which is an entirely different type of hell-sphere. Just toss in enough ice to make eventual oceans and some cyanobacteria, and it should calm down in a few hundred thousand years.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe looking at it the wrong way. Mars becomes a place to visit. Turn it into an ecosystem full of stuff that can survive the low gravity. Insects and plants. You know after you stripmine it.
Go visit the weird ass nature reserves from your spinning space habitat.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s certainly an option, but right now it seems most space agencies are totally ignoring Venus as a possibility, and are focused on a Mars colony.
CaptBobbers@mas.to 6 months ago
@AngryCommieKender @root_beer
Floating cities in the clouds of Venus mining carbon dioxide and nitrogen out of the atmosphere, sending all those excess gases to Mars, the Belt, and the moons of the gas giants for terraforming and habitats.Car Salesman: * slaps the Venusian atmosphere * "You can fit so many Martians under this bad boy."
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pluto is nice and colorful
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Mars isn’t even red, it’s sort of brown