Jack
@Jack@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can’t have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Scientists didn’t become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.
When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn’t big enough to clear), they realized it wasn’t a planet.
When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn’t a planet.
- Comment on Worshippers killed in India stampede at world's largest religious festival 4 months ago:
Kumbh Mela deaths:
- 1820 = 430 deaths, 1000+ injured
- 1840 = 50+ deaths, 100+ injured
- 1906 = 50+ deaths, 100+ injured
- 1954 = 800-1000 deaths
- 1986 = 200+ deaths
- 2003 = 39+ deaths, 100+ injured
- 2010 = 7 deaths, 17 injured
- 2013 = 42 deaths, 45 injured
indiatoday.in/…/maha-kumbh-mela-stampede-up-praya… en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_human_stampedes_in_Hin…