• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well of course that was the exception they had to come up with for their contrived rule. The exception is: “whatever it takes to make pluto not a planet”. Since the vote was agenda fueled and not a scientific discussion.

    Once something new is discovered and breaks the rules they will have to modify the contrived rule to keep pluto not a planet.

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      1 month ago

      Yes, that’s how science goes. Simple explanations and definitions often fall apart upon further discovery and require caveats that sometimes even reinforce the intention.

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        1 month ago

        I agree except in this instance the goal was to keep Earth’s classification important. No other scientific objective. Just seemed very geocentric to me.