3063: "Planet Definitions"

[ratammer]

Title text: Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

If no-one is looking at a planet right now, does it really count as a planet?

[somitomi]

Railfan: Locomotives following the design of "Planet" are Planets

[heuristically_alone]

I believe only habitable spaces are planets

[moody7277]

I believe only habitable spaces are planets

Most likely that correlates with the Marine Biologist definition.

[somitomi]

It just occurded to me that the empiricist definition could suggest Randall has never seen the Sun.

[heuristically_alone]

I've never looked directly at the sun so I have no proof it actually exists.

[chridd]

Not even on accident? You've never accidentally gotten sun in your eyes?

[somitomi]

I've never looked directly at the sun so I have no proof it actually exists.

Based on observations conducted during a university lecture that happened to coincide with a partial eclipse I can confirm that the Sun does in fact exist, is further from Earth than the Moon and that the TA was not amused by the distraction.