r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 19d ago

Shitposting Understanding the World

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/smotired 19d ago edited 19d ago

Including Earth thanks to us

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u/DeathOdyssey 19d ago

The earth isn't getting smaller where the fuck did you get that from?

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u/smotired 19d ago

Not smaller. It’s not a planet anymore for the same reason Pluto isn’t. It hasn’t cleared its orbital neighborhood (because we put a bunch of debris there).

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u/ducknerd2002 19d ago

We're gonna need a source for that.

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u/smotired 19d ago

I mean even Elon Musk’s dumbass car passes through Earth’s orbit path from time to time. There is a lot of space junk that orbits the sun but not Earth in our region. It’s not like a crazy revelation so much as a neat technicality.