Keld [he/him, any]

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  • I don’t care about Pluto directly, I care about the definition of planet being ridiculous and seemingly made up explicitly to demote Pluto while keeping the “core” planets and failing to do so if applied with any rigor. It is also such an arbitrary definition it doesn’t apply outside our solar system and NASA missions ignore it. It’s bad science.

    so Neptune and earth have indeed cleared their orbit

    No they haven’t. As your quoted part had to point out with the words “To a greater extent”

    Let me be clear here then: 1: The definition does not concern itself about mass or size beyond the object reaching a hydrostatic equilibrium that’s round. Pluto is cut off because of its location, not its size. The same goes for other objects like a lot of moons and every dwarf planet.

    2: it’s inconsistently applied.

    3: I’m pointing out some utter bullshit I just found out on a website for shitposting, not starting a petition or mailing threats to Mike Brown.


  • Okay but the definition doesn’t cut off based on size, but based on the relative size of nearby objects, and I already pointed out that the definition is inconsistently applied. If Pluto and Mercury switched places, by this current definition it would be a planet (And what about when they’re at the point where Pluto and Neptune make each other non planets would mercury then become a non planet? And I don’t even know if Mercury could clear the orbit that far out, would Mercury become a non planet because there are larger asteroids in the kuiper belt). That’s not a definition that’s actually consistent, nor is it one that’s actually based on size.

    And even the earth does not clear its orbit, there’s a bunch of NEAs. Is the Earth not a planet?

    It’s just some nonsense they made up and the definition sucks and I can’t find a good defense of it.

    edit: Hold on, I just devised a thought experiment. Imagine we take the moon as it exists now, we ctrl-c, ctrl-v’d it to a solar system without any other celestial bodies in it. Bam, it’s a planet… Except if we added a couple of moons instead of just one, because they wouldn’t clear each other so they would become dwarf planets. Depending on the same objects relative position it can be a moon, a dwarf planet or a planet without changing any actual inherent property of the object itself.


  • The judge (Christopher M. Lopez) basically let him get away with it, so he hasn’t paid squat to the victims and he still has control of infowars because Judge Christopher M. Lopez is a partisan hack ruling that all his bullshit lies that were rightfully called out by previous judges are actually legit and you can’t make him sell infowars because the parent company he created out of whole cloth specifically to avoid having to sell the company that exists for no other reason than avoiding the legal repurcussions of his actions is legit, and that only the part that Alex Jones owns himself could be bought by the Onion and then none of his ownership of the parent company (Which means that no part of Infowars could be sold essentially, because of obvious straw owners [That the hack Christopher Lopez has decided are legit, when it was pointed out years ago that it’s obviously bullshit] and the existence of the parent company to which he transferred ownership)



  • Pluto should be a planet. The definition of planet that excludes pluto is a bad definition, it does not include exoplanets that don’t orbit a sun and “Clearing it’s orbit” is an arbitrary definition that means a planet is only a planet if there’s not anything else big in its orbital path. Also what if mercury crosses the orbit of another planet, does either or both planets stop being a planet while that’s happening.

    Astronomers, justify yourselves.

    Edit: wait, hold on. Neptune and Pluto crosses their orbits. Neptune isn’t a planet by this definition. And like the definition of “Dwarf planet” is stupid too, because it isn’t defined by any kind of actual size. Mercury is only like twice the size of pluto… what’s the limit. Where’s the limit. I started off wanting to make a joke about the Pluto thing being messed up, but the pluto thing is actually messed up. This genuinely seems like they sat down and tried to work out a definition that made Pluto not a planet and couldn’t come up with anything real.