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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well at one time people "knew" that space was filled with Aether, and people knew that the universe was no more than 2 million years old.

But once you understand things more, some of the things you know turn out to be wrong.

In this case it's more like "we called this thing a planet before we knew just how tiny it really is but it's still cool so we now have categories for things just like it"

Which I think is neat.

You can be sad it's not a planet, we can also be happy that it pulled one over on all of humanity for such a long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are SO MANY Men In Black references in this thread and NOBODY is pointing them out and it is driving me CRAZY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's actually what I was going for but I didn't want to use the "earth was flat" that K uses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ok thank you, that makes me feel a lot better to know that at least you intended the reference.