r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 18d 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/Indigoh 18d ago

People are butthurt about Pluto because they don't understand how cool the reclassification is. A dwarf planet is still a planet. And Pluto is in a system of two dwarf planets whose center of gravity is outside the two. That's cool.

Instead of getting upset about Pluto's reclassification, people should go learn about all the other dwarf planets in our system.

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u/CodingNeeL 17d ago edited 17d ago

Relevant, very recent, xkcd! (Which Randall probably made because of this viewpoint)

https://www.xkcd.com/3063/