BussyGyatt@feddit.org to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoWhat's a scientific fact that sounds 100% real but is made up?message-squaremessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down113
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minus-squareBussyGyatt@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·16 days agohere’s one: pluto is not a planet. i remember they told us about this in school but it turns out that wasnt true, it was just made up.
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minus-squareBussyGyatt@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agooh my bad, i missed it completely. im pretty tired and a lil drunk. its funny now i see it.
minus-squareDeconceptualist@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days agoRelax my dude, he’s just playing off the observation that pluto discussions get weirdly heated on the net. I don’t think he was coming at you from any angle whatsoever. [Apologies for the presumed male pronouns throughout]
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minus-squareDeconceptualist@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoI wasn’t? lol I just wanna clear up misunderstandings and keep the peace so Lemmy doesn’t become reddit 😬 Just saw that you explained much better. Cheers 🍻
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minus-squareBussyGyatt@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agothat makes way more sense than what i was thinking, thanks for catching me up
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoIt was true at the time, but it isn’t true anymore. Since then, we nailed down the definition of “planet”, and Pluto (along with Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and others) don’t meet the requirements.
here’s one: pluto is not a planet. i remember they told us about this in school but it turns out that wasnt true, it was just made up.
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oh my bad, i missed it completely. im pretty tired and a lil drunk. its funny now i see it.
Relax my dude, he’s just playing off the observation that pluto discussions get weirdly heated on the net. I don’t think he was coming at you from any angle whatsoever.
[Apologies for the presumed male pronouns throughout]
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I wasn’t? lol I just wanna clear up misunderstandings and keep the peace so Lemmy doesn’t become reddit 😬
Just saw that you explained much better. Cheers 🍻
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that makes way more sense than what i was thinking, thanks for catching me up
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sounds legit.
It was true at the time, but it isn’t true anymore.
Since then, we nailed down the definition of “planet”, and Pluto (along with Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and others) don’t meet the requirements.