• Transporter Room 3
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    47 months ago

    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.

    • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      37 months ago

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

      • Transporter Room 3
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        37 months ago

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