GorkDwarf Planets are people too
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I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget).
The more the merrier
Yeah, people don’t realise that removing Pluto is the conservative choice when it comes to the list of planets.
I’d be happy with:
Pluto = planet
Anything smaller than Pluto ≠ planet
Nine planets. Now with clear non-stupid rules.
At least Pluto is rock solid, looking at you Jupiter and Saturn. Ya’ll wish you half the silicate mass!
My objection to “dwarf planet” is purely a linguistically aesthetic one.
“Dwarf planet” ≠ planet
…implies…
“Dwarf person” ≠ person
…and I feel like the people under 4’10" (147 cm) would object to that distinction.
Also, “planetoid” was a perfectly cromulent word which Star Trek had been using for decades already.
samus12345Different meanings. “Dwarf person” = a person with dwarfism, but “dwarf planet” ≠ a planet with dwarfism.
RamenJunkieDid you test Pluto to make sure its not just a regularplanet with dwarfism?
There are plenty of linguistically unintuitive artifacts kicking around (a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, a jellyfish is not a fish, all of the “berries” which aren’t berries), but if we’re deliberately creating brand new labels in the 21st century, it might have been nice if we’d avoided that kind of oddness, given the opportunity.
Evil KittyPluto is still a planet, dwarf planets are still planets just smaller.
In Illinois, we passed a law acknowledging Pluto as a planet because we are the most open and accepting state.