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:I'm impressed that he has seen Uranus (unless that actually is a joke), especially if he saw it unaided (apparently it actually can be barely seen with the naked eye if the conditions are incredibly good). [[User:SammyChips|SammyChips]] ([[User talk:SammyChips|talk]]) 19:36, 14 March 2025 (UTC) | :I'm impressed that he has seen Uranus (unless that actually is a joke), especially if he saw it unaided (apparently it actually can be barely seen with the naked eye if the conditions are incredibly good). [[User:SammyChips|SammyChips]] ([[User talk:SammyChips|talk]]) 19:36, 14 March 2025 (UTC) | ||
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| + | Technically, spacecraft have landed on Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn. Just not in a survivable manner. [[User:Redacted II|Redacted II]] ([[User talk:Redacted II|talk]]) 19:37, 14 March 2025 (UTC) | ||
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The one currently posted has Pluto highlighted in the second box and not highlighted in the first box. Too hard to tell if it's trolling or a genuine mistake. :-D
And the first one also has a moon hilighted instead I think?? 162.158.126.5 15:59, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- Was about to write the same. The coloring in the first two lines arund Pluto seem wrong (or mistankingly switched). --172.71.222.246 16:17, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
the coloring of Pluto does look inverted in the two first lines, they probably got switched by mistake--172.71.90.43 17:28, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
This, this is the hill I will die on. I was radicalised by this paper: Moons Are Planets: "Scientific Usefulness Versus Cultural Teleology in the Taxonomy of Planetary Science" In short; planets are what planetary scientists study. Round things with the *good stuff*: atmospheres, oceans, volcanoes (of lava or water ice) (see diagram page 53). Pluto, Titan, Ceres, Io and Europa are all in the sweet spot where you're not so small you're just a lump of rocks who happen to be stuck together into a lump, and not so large you're just a mostly undifferentiated mass of fusing hydrogen/helium plasma. And it's consistent with our pre-20th Century understanding of what a planet is, whereas the IAU definition is trying to preserve 19th Century astrology. An amazing read and a strong recommend for anyone who cares about this subject. 172.69.79.138 16:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Does this sort of count as pi-related for pi day? TomtheBuilder (talk) 17:04, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
I was somewhat disappointed to get to the end of the table without seeing either an astrology or Sailor Moon joke. -- Angel (talk) 18:12, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Is it possible that Uranus is marked under "Empiricist" because of the "Randall has seen Uranus" joke? 172.70.42.178 18:38, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
The "Classical Planets" should be 7, including the Sun and the Moon.
Wouldn't the Regolithic one depend on the exact definitions of "dirt", "ice", and "covered"? It seems that an argument could be made that the giant planets also count there but have a much thicker atmosphere on the outside, and disqualifying because of the atmosphere could exclude others like Earth depending on the exact threshold used. SammyChips (talk) 19:08, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Has Randall not seen the sun before?
- I'm impressed that he has seen Uranus (unless that actually is a joke), especially if he saw it unaided (apparently it actually can be barely seen with the naked eye if the conditions are incredibly good). SammyChips (talk) 19:36, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Technically, spacecraft have landed on Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn. Just not in a survivable manner. Redacted II (talk) 19:37, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
