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dectech · 7 months ago

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We all know about the fuss around Pluto, how many decry its "demotion" to a dwarf planet, and how it's still an honorary planet in the hearts of many, and I totally get it, but I don't think any of you out there are taking it far enough.

What about the rest of the so-called "dwarf" planets, huh? where's their justice? what about Ceres? Haumea? Makemake? Eris? fucking Quaoar?! why have just eight planets when you can have 18?! Why only invite Pluto to the party if you're already gonna expand the guest's list?!

you know what should be "demoted"? fucking Phobos and Deimos, the two "moons" of Mars. these two motherfuckers are proof that the barrier-to-entry for moons is too low. they're barely visible, they don't effect mars in any meaningful way, they aren't even round since they aren't big enough to round themselves under their own gravity, and one of them isn't even in a stable orbit of Mars! Phobos is gonna get ripped apart by mars' gravity in just a few dozen million years!

the concept of a "Dwarf Moon" is too good for them. they should be called, like, sateloids or something. Lunoids at most. fuck em

#all of this is a joke btw #I know why Dwarf Planets are defined separately from the rest of the solar system #but tbf we as a society are sleeping on them hard #if Pluto was discovered after the concept of a dwarf planet was defined #most people wouldn't even know it existed #which is a shame because it's a fucking Baller!#you see those close up images we got?!#That Data About It?!#Fucking Sick!#cool and interesting as fuck!#but nobody'd care enough to know if we'd found it after coming up the idea of Dwarf Planets #imagine all the cool & interesting shit out in the Kuiper that'd be common knowledge #if they got the same attention pluto did for being 'The Ninth Planet'!!!!!#also fuck phobos and Deimos #we gotta come up with subcategories for moons fr #bc as it stands right now #a second earth orbiting jupiter #and a mcdonald's-sized boulder orbiting mercury shaped roughly llke mitt romney's dog #would be the same type of celestial object under our classifications #and I feel like there are some SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES THERE #like the only thing they'd have in common is orbiting a planet the way a planet orbits a star

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