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[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 41 points 5 months ago

Pluto?!? Get that scrub outta here!!!

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 months ago

You'll have to pull Pluto out of my cold, dead hands before I give up on my boy!

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 months ago

"Am I a joke to you?"

- Ceres

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Yes...

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago

sad ex-planet noises

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

At least, after being demoted to asteroid Ceres was re-promoted to Dwarf Planet. Imagine having once been called a planet and being considered an asteroid. Imagine being Pallas.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Come on, why would Pluto want to keep hanging out with the planets, the dwarf planet club is much bigger and cooler. And either way, pluto has a moon named Charon that's so big it's debated whether it should be called a moon or another dwarf planet...

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

It's called little planets, thank you very much

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pluto is king of the dwarf planets - namesake of Plutoids it deserves a slot.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Pick on someone your own size!

[-] Fubarberry@ani.social 34 points 5 months ago

The last time I saw this image posted on Lemmy, the planet Uranus had been replaced by a butthole.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Link?

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

It was probably a year ago or more, I just remember it because the poster didn't realize it had a butthole and didn't tag it NSFW.

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 months ago

Yeah how comes that every planet is flat and round but only earth is flat and square !

Some strange stuff goin on in our solar system 🤔

[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

The government goes to great lengths to cover up the truth!

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

They're flat discs that always face earth, like Doom sprites

[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 27 points 5 months ago

Th workings of the celestial panini press are mysterious and ineffable

[-] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

This is funny, but flat earthers don't believe in a heliocentric solar system, so it would be lost on them.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

If they’re not flat, how come they always look like a circle?

[-] Kaotik@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 months ago

Obviously this diagram is fake because it has everything revolving around the sun and not Suzanne from HR.

[-] llamatron@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Have any flat earthers attempted to show how our solar system works with a flat planet?

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I have so many questions about flat earth theory. Many practical questions like you noted but also more general stuff like who benefits from it? Conspiracies usually have some secret order hiding the truth in order to maintain power or enrich themselves. What difference does it make to anyone what shape the earth is? It doesn't seem like it benefits anyone to deceive the world about that. Maybe globe makers since a 3D object is more expensive than a map on a piece of paper?

These questions pop into my head every time the topic gets brought up but I don't make the effort to look into it because at the end of the day it feels like a pointless exercise to peer into the mind of a lunatic looking for rationality.

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Governments and other entities start wild conspiracy theories with people who are susceptible to them so that people who discover real conspiracies look crazy.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sure but they need to be at least a little bit believable and have a clear beneficiary or else they don't serve much of a purpose. It's pretty easy to see why various groups of people would have wanted JFK dead, or to fake the moon landing, or hide the fact that vaccines cause autism, or cover up alien abductions, or any of the other conspiracy theories you normally hear about. Flat earth just seems so benign in comparison.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Oh, you are asking who is supposed to benefit from hiding that the Earth is flat?

I understood your question to mean who benefits from propagating the scam about flat Earth. This one seems to be one of those odd cults with no cult-leader. Those tend to degrade quickly into something with a cult leader or disappear, but the flat Earth keeps defying the rules of social dynamics. (What is incredibly interesting by itself...)

But well, I guess you'll have to ask them who benefits from a spherical Earth. They'll have some name to give you, it will make no sense at all, and if you ask another group you'll get a different nonsensical name. AFAIK flat Earthers come in two main lines, the one that got it from the Bible, and believe it's some version of the Evil trying to deceive people, and one that comes from 18th century propaganda (where flat Earthers were the butt of it), and will have a political enemy propagating globalism.