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3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:06 pm
by 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?
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 8:02 am
by somitomi
Railfan: Locomotives following the design of "Planet" are Planets
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 6:13 pm
by heuristically_alone
I believe only habitable spaces are planets
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:11 am
by moody7277
Most likely that correlates with the Marine Biologist definition.
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:28 am
by somitomi
It just occurded to me that the empiricist definition could suggest Randall has never seen the Sun.
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:37 pm
by heuristically_alone
I've never looked directly at the sun so I have no proof it actually exists.
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:49 pm
by chridd
Not even on accident? You've never accidentally gotten sun in your eyes?
Re: 3063: "Planet Definitions"
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:33 pm
by somitomi
heuristically_alone wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:37 pm
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.