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some kind of a moodboard

professorsparklepants

Can I ask what the problem is with classifying Pluto as the ninth planet?

Because it’s not. When the scientific community makes an informed decision about the classification of celestial bodies based on new information, you don’t just get to shove your fingers in your ears and ignore it because you don’t like it.

lullabyknell

The most basic explanation is that we have found and are still finding objects in our solar system that are nearly as big, as big, or bigger than Pluto.

Either we had to make every new object a planet or we had to reclassify Pluto. It makes way more sense to reclassify Pluto, especially when Pluto is smaller than Earth’s own moon.

One of the last straws was Eris, another trans-Neptunian object (which means an object in our solar system farther away from the sun than Neptune), which was briefly referred to as “the tenth planet” because it initially appeared to be even larger than Pluto. (Now we know that Pluto actually has the greater volume, but that Eris has the greater mass.)

I think everyone should really appreciate that it was an object named after the Greek goddess of discord that disrupted the “balance” of the “Nine Planets”.

Some astronomers don’t like the term “dwarf planet”, but the International Astronomical Union as of 2008 has officially recognized five: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet).

The study of space is really hard, guys, because there’s just so much space to study. Our own solar system is in many ways still a mystery to us. Pluto was only discovered in 1930. Remember how recently we got our first decent picture of Pluto? And saw Pluto’s “heart”? That was 2015.

We’re also coming to understand that our solar system isn’t actually “normal”, now that we’re learning more about exoplanets (which are planets outside our solar system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet). Like how we came to understand that Earth’s moon wasn’t “normal” for every planet. (Our moon is actually really weird, guys.)

(Did you know that there are objects called “rogue planets”? Also known as “nomad planets” and “orphan planets”? These are planets that don’t have a star to orbit around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet. Very cool!)

The scientific community has to work off of what they know. Sometimes, something comes along and changes everything that we think we know. So, we have to adjust. We can’t presume that the universe will adhere to any human mythology; we have to study it as it is; and it’s a “the more we learn, we realize the less we really know” situation. Prof is right. Pluto is not a planet.

Pluto is a dwarf planet. Near the edges of our solar system, Pluto is keeping company with an unknown number of fellow trans-Neptunian objects. An object by any other name remains exactly as it actually is.

professorsparklepants

^^^ anyone interested in the process leading up to Pluto’s demotion should read How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Michael Brown, the guy whose team discovered Eris and whose findings contributed most to the IAU’s ruling on the classification of dwarf planets. It’s a fascinating read.

theproblematicblogger

Despite every moment of life being indescribably precious and a wondrous mystery, I will spend it caring about dividends and how many rental properties I have.

brownfeministaa

Rich people are truly dead inside.

the-big-milk

I can’t imagine caring this much about numbers that absolutely will never impact my life. This person is making more in passive income than I’ve ever made in my life and he’s just like “but but I need more :(”.

msfbgraves

I mean, fuck that guy, but psychologically it’s interesting.

Some desperate remnant of his soul knows what he needs. As soon as his debt is cleared, he goes on to live what many would call an utterly charmed life: working no more than 20 hours a week, travelling and spending time with friends (which he, at $150,000 a year and no mortgage, has ample money to do). He has a loving relationship also.

But his brain is so rotten that he cannot understand happiness anymore. He is incapable of conceptualising it other than in money.

A man who has everything except the ability to feel it.

How poetic.

But fuck that guy.

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I want to hit this man.

theoutcastrogue

I want to rob this man.

wearesorcerer

Meow appears beside Rogue, holding a sign: “Heist? Heist.”

fairy-anon-godmother

This man is so so so close to realizing a fundamental truth to how humans operate, but I genuinely don’t think he’s going to get there. Although I’m not sure he realizes it this man views the money he earns as a direct translation of his sense of personal achievement and engagement.

Which means that when he says he regrets the months he didn’t pick up more hours to earn more money, what he’s describing here is boredom. He’s doing it in the crassest, shallowest, most income-obsessed and unattainable for most of us way possible, yes. But this man is expressing that once he achieved a certain financial goal he relaxed, enjoyed himself, got bored, realized on some level he was understimulated, and then started working more hours to meet whatever stimulated activity threshold he personally needs.

This is infuriating because this man experienced the counter-argument to that nonsensical talking point that if we meet people’s financial needs with a universal basic income they’ll grow lazy and won’t do anything.

Anyone trying to develop $200,000 in passive annual income is not working three minimum-wage jobs to live paycheck-to-paycheck. This man’s basic financial needs were met. Working more hours to make more money is just his own personal code for ‘I still needed to use my mind to do things’ (using what might be the only metric of personal achievement he might actually have). This man lived the argument for universal basic income and I genuinely don’t think he realizes that. Once his basic income needs were met he still needed to do things to keep himself stimulated and engaged with his own life.

You see a version of this play out with retirees who leave their jobs, go home, and very quickly find themselves in need of new activities or friends or engagements to keep them present and stimulated in their lives. Ensuring someone’s basic financial needs are met doesn’t make them stop doing things, humans don’t work that way.

wojo4hitz

Reblogging for the psychology lessons

imgoingtogobacktheresomeday-dea

There is, I believe, a line in an Agatha Christie story about a man so desperately unhappy he doesn’t know he’s unhappy. “Ah, a rich man,” responds the nun.

gelbraddy

utopians

tshirt that says BAD AT BEING A WOMAN on the front WORSE AT BEING A MAN on the back worn with shorts that say NEVERTHELESS STILL KICKING

pokemon-personalities

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doubleca5t

so at my new job there’s been a lot of confusion over my gender (which as an enby is great) but somehow in the confusion my coworkers came to assume I’m a trans man and even though I’m AMAB I’ve used the confusion as leverage to get them to put tampons/pads in the men’s room and add a gender neutral bathroom for any transmascs/enbies down the line and I kept thinking “this is like the ‘my gender is whatever makes the joke funnier’ thing but the opposite??” and anyway tldr here is my “My gender is” alignment chart

Oh this is amazing so many of these are a mood

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

Did u know apparently there’s a hidden unused garbage bed in the sims 3? I just found out about this

feytouched

don't talk to me i'm thinking about dog statues turned golden by all the hands that pet them

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solardrake

found a subreddit where people share their tiny fruits

pavelow

Where’s the link OP I would like to contribute

ensnaredpreyanimal

gonna post a selfie?

princedanger

you just killed a man in broad daylight

radicalapollo

Fuck you, now you get to see it in video form, because fuck you.

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this was animated by a man with anterograde amnesia who kept forgetting the last 10 frames he drew

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Sorry to bring this back but I haven’t slept in weeks wondering how she could possibly be alive if eating one chicken nugget is this fucking difficult for her