What is Pluto doing so close to Australia?
That shouldn't be allowed. Someone tell it to go back to it's usual orbit, this is not on.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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Fuck off Pluto, we're full!
You didn't know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn't really a planet.
It's their payback for that whole "clears its orbit" business.
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Still, the surface area is much bigger. Pluto is a real continent
Discreetly insulting both Australia and Pluto in one sentence! Absolutely love this; will share it with all my Australia and Plutonian friends! If Earth gets attacked, it's not my fault, but yours :'P
If Australia attacks Earth you’ll know you’ve been attacked.
Australians can’t attack Earth, they’d fall right up into the sky without some reverse-reverse-gravity system.
First they came for Pluto's planethood.
Next they're coming for Australia's continenthood.
When they came for Pluto, I said nothing because I wasn't a planet
When they came for Australia, I said nothing because I wasn't a continent
When they came for Bielefeld, I said nothing because I wasn't a city
When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything
– Martin Niemöller
Wow, Pluto has approximately the same surface area as Russia
And now putin starts pumping out propaganda that pluto used to be russian
So... Does this mean Australia is no longer a continent?
Dwarf continent
Or does it mean Australia is a planet?
Australia would have to round up its edges and clear it's orbit of little islands before being called a planet.
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If that photo was taken right before impact, none of the continents will remain continents because it's all about to melt and we might have another moon when everything settles down and we evolve back from scratch over the next several billion years.
The only survivors would be Australia's infamous Magma Spiders.
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Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.
Pluto is still a sphere, this is an unfair comparison because Pluto hasn't been unwrapped
Fun fact: the surface area of Pluto is only about 4% larger than Russia.
So thats why Russia wanted to expand
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No shit? Wow, it's amazing that we were even able to find it.
Even more amazing that it was found in the era it was. People were pouring over the skies looking for the next big planet, and instead they found this little guy.
There are still some orbital dynamics suggestions that something large and dark is lurking out there -- an ice giant. But it's still largely conjecture. It'd be interesting to see how they define it should they find something very large (say Neptune mass), but it hasn't cleared its orbit. Is it a planet or not? :D
Actually 🤓 it was James Cook who found Australia and he didn't go there by ski but by ship and he didn't find one little guy but exterminated a whole indigenous population
Ah shit, a switcheroo!
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And thats why you'll never be a real planet!
Heresy! Australia will always be a planet.
No! Austria will never be a planet nor continent. It is a white, European country and I'm willing to die on that hill!
Absolute size isn't really in the criteria for a planet though. Pluto isn't a planet because it shares its orbit with lots of other icy bodies in the Kuiper belt.
Exactly. That's also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn't a planet either.
Do you mean the Trojans? They're excluded from the mass calculation of 'clearing the neighbourhood' because they're in a resonant orbit - their orbit is a consequence of Jupiter's mass.
I don't know. I don't think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto's doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?
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This picture is inaccurate, Pluto is actually much farther away.
No it's just really small
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As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it's small, that's why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!
Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.
Straya's never been a planet, mate.
Yeah, but it is a pretty big island.
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I have this Tshirt
I get groans
Hey wtf put Pluto back to where it belongs. Do you have any idea how bad this is for the world economics???
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Still can't unsee Pluto(the dog) on Pluto
Take that King Flippy Nips!
introscene for the next mecha anime confirmed
No way!
I can see why they no longer call it a planet, what's the cutoff for asteroid size?
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That’s an avocado pit and you know it
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