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Pluto is still a planet, just a dwarf one
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why do so many people care that some big rock had its category of big rock changed…
Because it broke our mnemonics.
My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas.
Pizzas. Nine of them.
Not nachos.
In German, your father now has to explain the entire night sky, not just our nine planets.
They thought they were being taught a capital T Truth about how the world works and they were never told that that's not how science works. So when science took away that Truth, their entire worldview was in peril because what other Truths can just be thrown out willy-nilly?!
It honestly irks the fuck out of me that people care so much (or pretend to care as some form of cultural pantomime?).
Turning science into a team sport. What could possibly go wrong.
People care about things not because of some intrinsic value, but because of our relationship to them.
We love our pets, and don't really care about food animals. We are upset when a friend is in an accident, but not about people who died 500 years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
some people just have an unbreakable need to be on "the right team", it seems