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rainbowangel110 · 1 year ago

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Pluto may have been kicked out of the Planet group, but know that they are now the King of the Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud and all Dwarf Planets, so really, who's laughing now?

the thing about the godawful "pluto will always be a planet IN MY HEART UnU" narrative is. why does this hypothetical anthropomorphic Pluto want to be a planet

like if i'd never fit in with all the other planets no matter how hard i tried and then someone finally realized "hey! its not fair to hold you to the standards of something you aren't! we know what you are now! we understand you better, you never have to be labeled as something you're not again!" that would be like the happiest ending possible

like science isn't nostalgia its constantly changing as we learn more and more about how the universe works, and change isn't always bad

but also like i fail to see how this is sad for pluto

#it actually fits because in greek/roman myths Hades/Pluto was kind of an outcast being the Kind of the Underworld #he basically got the short end of the stick #(literally. Zeus/Jupiter Poseidon/Neptune and Hades/Pluto drew lots to see what their domains would be)#(with Zeus getting the sky Poseidon with the sea and Hades with the Underworld)#the Kuiper Belt is where Pluto is it's a large area where comets come from and most icy objects further out from Neptune #think of it as the Asteroid Belt but with freezing temperatures (well space is cold but still! Really far from the sun here!)#And the Oort Cloud is much bigger colder and further out! A massive area of just cold and dark (full light year to even reach the beginning #there's so many unknown plants that could be out here actually!#We know Eris and I think there's another one named Sedna!#the Oort Cloud is basically the edge and end of our solar system and beyond that is where Heliopause happens #(where the solar winds are met with interstellar ones)#Fun fact! Voyager 1 has gone beyond the Heliopause in 2012 marking it the first human object to do so!#it's still within the confines of the solar system mind you! it'll take another 300 years to even hit the Oort Cloud #still can't believe those fuckers are still transmitting data #well I mean #Voyager 1 is but 2's antenna accidentally pointed away from Earth by 2 degrees this year in August #it's still working but we won't be getting data anytime soon #it's just too far away #space #just rebloging #Don't worry about getting sentimental over a planet #I'm over here on the verge of tears for two very old spacecraft that'll probably never Earth again

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