Zoomer (born in 2000) here. Is it true that Pluto used to be considered an actual planet in the solar system?
>>16554510Pluto still is considered an actual planet in the solar system by everyone born in the 20th century.
>>16554510>>16554514All these definitions are conventional garbage anyways. There’s very little in common between rocky planets and gas giants. Ganymede is bigger than Mercury by volume. If Pluto is a planet, then so is Charon because their barycenter is outside Pluto. Etc etc etc.
>>16554510>Zoomer (born in 2000) here. Is it true that Pluto used to be considered an actual planet in the solar system?Yes, and for a brief time, the asteroids, Vesta, Juno, Pallas, and Ceres were also considered planets.We had to adopt a stricter definition or pretend that our solar system has about 800 "planets.">>16554514>Pluto still is considered an actual planet in the solar system by everyone born in the 20th century.I was born in the 20th century and I do not agree that Pluto is a planet.
>>16554518>All these definitions are conventional garbage anywaysYes, so anyone born in the 20th century should default to what they've known since childhood.
>>16554540You should be consistent at the very least. So if you consider Pluto a planet, then all the other meme rocks in the Kuiper belt are planets. And arguably is Charon as well. So the answer can be anything but 9.
>>16554543I don't base my definition of a planet on some arbitrary set of criteria. I base it on what I was taught since childhood. I don't care if there's some rock out there 1000 times the size of pluto. Pluto is a planet, and that big rock is just a rock. It's all arbitrary bullshit anyway, so my arbitrary bullshit is just as valid as yours. You and your panel of scientists who decided Pluto isn't a planet can fuck off.
>>16554552So if you were taught that pigs fly then that's what you'd continue to think? You sound like the perfect golem.
>>16554555It's more like I was taught birds fly, and then biologists randomly decided>ackshully those are classified as reptiles now
>>16554510"planets" is an archaic concept from when we only had naked eye observations of the sky.
>boomers really believed this is what the surface of pluto is like
>It's all arbitrary bullshit anyway!
>>16554572>Pluto discovered in 1930>I'm pretty sure those were "boomers."While we're on the subject of people who mindlessly group things together that aren't actually the same...
>>16554560And what exactly prevents birds from flying if they're classified as reptiles? Do they get sad from the news?
>>16554510formalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYumZXKrEsprogressivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uozFX0MX1Cc
>>16554510yeah, haha, it was pretty fake and gay, am i right?
zoomer born 2001 and i remember learning about the discovery of the "tenth planet" eris in preschool and subsequent demotion of pluto
>>16554552You were taught a definition that was based on an arbitrary set of criteria
>>16554510If you use the only definition that made Pluto a planet then there are ~110 planets.
