science moment

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Orphic Palaces, Slandering Hungry Quaker Matrons Going Erotically Southward.

I appreciate that you included Salacia but not Charon – really threading the needle pedantry-wise there.

iy think any planetary-mass object should be called a planet. the moon is a planet. so are the galilean moons. ganymede is bigger than mercury, so whiy not? just because it happens to orbit another planet too? a star can orbit another star, so whiy can't a planet orbit another planet?

Sometimes when I'm feeling especially contrary I'll advocate for a definition of "planet" which includes the inner planets, the trans-Neptunians, and all planetary-mass moons, but specifically excludes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

The ones who killed my father, my niece, and half of my relatives should not be welcomed at the World Cup.

Everyone reacts… but no one donates!!!

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Can't believe it's been 10 years

Do you think protein wants to be in all these things ?

it’s time for demons to come out of the ground and for everyone to get special powers

i specifically requested it

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

there’s still idiots in my inbox asking if m this is real— yes it is.

Computer loves to be like "fuck! You sure you want to shut down? Youve got volume mixer open"