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One time as a child I paddled an air mattress to a tiny island way out in a giant lake.
Once I got there i stepped on the shore and sunk knee deep in bird crap. So I totally buy the mud at the edge of the world theory
In the future, this tiny island will be harvested for plant fertilkser.
@AdrenAline lol young me was a fool!
Oh, money money money!!! They used to harvest the guano off rocks in parts of the ocean where birds congregate.
😊
It’s all bird crap?
Always has been…
I love that as Historian talks about Pluto rules, the Deep Space Police Sirens can be heard in the background, coming for him 🚨
I can’t believe all they needed to do to make a space elevator was to put links between many separate lengths of rope. Internet Historian just solved physics
as an astrophysics student, i can say that they already do teach “there are thousands of small planets, but here are the big 8 plus pluto.” also your sending astronauts to space with cern bit gave me an asthma attack thank you
@2st I’m just gonna say by the way that your thinking is hyper-idealist and in itself inefficient. You cannot ever know the foundation of everything. This is why we have specific experts, to contribute to the collective knowledge. Being told so isn’t a scientific fact in itself, but if being told so is in line with the scientific consensus then it is at the very least at the time of writing, a fact. Being “more empirical” is well and great until you reject things you don’t understand rather than embracing that the pursuit of knowledge isn’t about building a foundation of facts upon which to build every little thing in the universe
@2st bro literally you replied with something unrelated and are trying to prove whatever point you hold to people who dont give a shit about you. this is the definition of stirring shit up. if youre so empirical then go write up a thesis about it and have it published because nobody here knows what youre talking about or care
@iisquared im just more empirical than most when it comest to ludicrous statements. not questioning whatever we hold as true even if we have no first hand experience and observations leads to dogma, wich is the enemy of critical thinking, and can turn science into religion very quickly if we dont question stuff. just my 0,20, not trying to stir shit up
Tell your professor he is Plutophobic and that isn’t okay then start a campaign to get him CANCELED. Only instead of showing him like bullying Pluto and slapping the little guy and saying “you aren’t a real planet nerd” it is him shooting Mickey Mouse’s dog.
You can wait for your asthma attack to be over.
@Arandomcommenter i laughed so hard i started hiccuping to the point of it impacting my breathing
“They should just separate them into big planets and small planets.” That’s… literally what it means to be a dwarf planet…
*planetoid. (Dwarf planet is not official)
@Zerp No, mercury’s radius is 2440km and the moon’s is 1738km.
Edit: its mass is about 5 times that of the moon though, since mass grows with the cube of radius.
@Wave mercurys radius is over twice as much as the moons radius
@Michael “just to get an idea of how small that is”
Yeah, and there are stars that make our sun look like a grain of sand. So is our sun no longer a star?
@orangeapples Well I am.
Aren’t you?
“I would find it difficult not to get in the CERN”
Someone actually did get inside a particle accelerator in the middle of an operation period. The absolute legend took a particle moving at near-light speed directly to the head and came back to work the next day.
@Jonas Quinn he won’t tell anyone
Did he get superpowers?
@Callie Calamity his source is that he made it the f up
@Robbie i think you got confused because it involves radiation. The one you described probably an accident from a nuclear experiment gone wrong.
The russian guy that peeked his head into a large hadron collider is still alive at the ripe age of 80 years old.
@Robbie where did you learn this?
Australia is kind of like a dwarf continent, as it was unable to pull in the contents of Oceania to form a proper landmass. Count your lucky stars that NASA hasn’t taken you off the map yet.
That last sentence sounds like a threat. Like they’re going to Nuke them off the world.
@Jay Eisenhardt literally 1984
I thought they did and it’s Oceania now.
Nasa didn’t but Gundam did.
@Aidan it’s not a well known fact around the rest of the world, but New Zealand is actually a state of Australia
What Internet Historian suggested with the space elevator thing was actually a thing in a visual/kinetic novel World End Economica, where instead of one giant elevator that would have to be constantly connected and experienced massive forces on its structure, they used a two-part system that would also allow them to “rotate” people inside as they were in zero G environment, so they wouldn’t have to worry about smashing their heads as they descended back to Earth at some point.
it’s so funny hearing the historian and mr ordinary things call the large hadron collider “the cern” for three minutes straight. that’s like calling a space rocket “the nasa” lmao
He also keeps saying “the filament” instead of “the firmament”. *Internet Historian perceived IQ plummeting*
We do that with the internet lol. We don’t say I’ll look it up on the internet anymore we say i’ll google it
All those scientists are gonna feel pretty silly when they find out their terminology is all wrong.
the nasa is that thing they strapped to the orange tank and 2 massive fireworks get it right 😀
This. I’ve had to convince myself it’s intentional to duck disappointment.
“I’d get in the CERN.” Lmao.
I love the idea that there were just a bunch of scientists in a room like “I don’t care about Pluto, we can’t be adding more planets to the solar system! We’ll look dumb!”
@Kaesemeister No, rule #1 was it must orbit a star. If it orbits a planet, It’s still just a moon
@Baron Von Jo You call those objects rogue planets. Still a planet type object, just starless.
@Baron Von Jo Planets that don’t orbit a star are rogue planets. Also, the Sun won’t disappear, it will leave behind a white dwarf that the planets will orbit around.
@nomadshiba You’re welcome to memorize all of the 100+ planets of the Solar System if you want to have a consistent definition that includes Pluto. I’ll stick to 8.
Haha to be fair, we’d have 40-50 if we counted all the dwarfs
Space elevators are rad as hell though, always loved them. Carbon nanotubes, it would be the most efficient and perfect method to get material cheaply into space