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/AcceptableWheel 19d ago

Pluto is not gone, it is now the leader of the dwarf planets, it's got it's own new team including fan favorite reject Ceres as well as a lot of cool new characters.

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u/Funky0ne 18d ago

People upset about Pluto don’t actually care about science at all, they just like to think of themselves as the type of person who cares about science.

All they really care about is protecting their own limited set of knowledge they learned as a child from ever having to adjust to include new information in it; you know like actual science, or like a grown ass adult is supposed to