My son’s favorite shirt:
That’s truly amazing!
Omg, you did it again!
<gasp>
Now the quadruple take
Speak for yourself. I haven’t forgotten Ceres.
I’ll forget Pluto together with the 200+ other dwarf planets in our solar system, thank you very much.
I understand the rationale for demoting Pluto, and I don’t disagree at all
It’s not even a demotion, it’s just reclassification. There’s no hierarchy of importance of solar system objects. People against a more accurate understanding of reality are dumb.
They took away Pluto’s superior status! We’re supposed to just sit back and let Pluto be relegated to the realms of the peasantry of satellites? I will fight to my dying breath to protect Pluto’s honor!
/s
What’s more fun, demoting pluto or announcing the discovery of a new planet every week for a couple years?
I’ve always said those third graders have it too easy having to learn just 8 planets. Time to really put them in their place!
What if we demoted pluto every few weeks as a compromise
Just need a bigger mnemonic
Where can I get this? Lol
I think my wife got it on Amazon
The real problem here is the nostalgia factor. A lot of people grew up having the planets ingrained into their brains with various mnemonics. Hard to say goodbye to “pizza”.
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My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming
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Naming what‽
Just chiming in to say nice interrobang, fellow interrobanger
Thanks‽
There was no scenario where your precious mnemonics got preserved. If Pluto was still a planet, then Ceres would be too and it would fuck them all up.
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That’s not where Ceres goes, and you missed Eris and a few others.
MEin VEtter ERklärt Mir Jeden Samstag Unsere NEun PLaneten. Is a German mnemonic
MEin Vater ERklärt Mir Jeden SAmstag Unseren Nachthimmel
is what I heard. Seems parents post '05 already adapted and overcame.
Yes, but your language is even weirder than English.
At least English doesn’t have any words like rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
Compound words make words rather descriptive and precise though, and we German love being precise.
Although to be fair, you have nothing on the Māori of New Zealand. They named a hill Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. That’s even longer than the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales.
Edit: None of them, though, come close to Ancient Greek’s lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, “a fictional dish originating from Aristophanes’ 391 B.C. comedy Assemblywomen.”
Beef-sticker-surveillance responsibility-shifting law
The law which transfers the responsibility of regulating grocery stickers on beef to presumably some other state agency?rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law
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No, we have “thin blue line” and somehow a long running controversy about which lives matter and which lives still matter but we shouldn’t say it because it implies you think the others don’t matter because of the thin blue lines. Humans are fucking weird, no matter the language.
What are you even talking about? Are you in the right thread? This is about Pluto and Star Trek and also at this point the German language.
Yes, I was pointing out that making fun of one language is odd when all languages are bizarre. English especially so. I don’t this is unclear.
Oh I see, this is more about being very, very serious rather than having fun and joking around in a meme community.
Maybe you need to find somewhere else for that.
I don’t think mnemonic translates correctly into German ;p
What happened:
mr show goat
If Emilia is a scientist at heart and heard that Pluto was reclassified because we found many more like it, she’d probably be fascinated. Mind blown, even, that we’ve found Sedna, Ceres, Makemake, a bunch of others I’ve forgotten the name of, and a few more that just have a number.
On the other hand, she was just introduced to the concept of things like interstellar travel and aliens, so “someone took away one of our planets” wouldn’t have been all that far-fetched. (Especially since the dialogue in the post doesn’t actually mention Pluto. Maybe she thought it was Venus.)
Granted, we found Ceres, christened it a planet, and demoted it to asteroid long before we found Pluto.
That’s messed up.
Is that Bruton Gaster?
His name is Jazz Hands
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There’s a LOT of dwarf planets we’ve found since Pluto is what happened, basically.
Now I’m curious: How publicised was Pluto’s discovery in 1930? Did the public care? Would Earhart likely have learnt about it before she vanished in 1937?
They were basically calling it the great American scientific discovery at the time. Which is probably why some people were so loath to accept the “demotion.”
Well, it was definitely in a lot of newspapers: https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=ninth+planet+discovered&tbs=%2Cbkt%3As%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1+jan+1929%2Ccd_max%3A31+dec+1931&num=100
Angela Collier did a video about the whole fiasco from a physicists prospective which is fun https://youtu.be/TwCbMJmgShg
Iirc she talks about how it’s kinda BS, caused public outrage, and might have harmed science communication in the mind of the public.
