What is Pluto doing so close to Australia?
That shouldn't be allowed. Someone tell it to go back to it's usual orbit, this is not on.
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You didn't know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn't really a planet.
They’re using it to cool up Australia
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Still, the surface area is much bigger. Pluto is a real continent
Discreetly insulting both Australia and Pluto in one sentence! Absolutely love this; will share it with all my Australia and Plutonian friends! If Earth gets attacked, it's not my fault, but yours :'P
First they came for Pluto's planethood.
Next they're coming for Australia's continenthood.
When they came for Pluto, I said nothing because I wasn't a planet
When they came for Australia, I said nothing because I wasn't a continent
When they came for Bielefeld, I said nothing because I wasn't a city
When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything
– Martin Niemöller
Wow, Pluto has approximately the same surface area as Russia
And now putin starts pumping out propaganda that pluto used to be russian
So... Does this mean Australia is no longer a continent?
Dwarf continent
Or does it mean Australia is a planet?
Australia would have to round up its edges and clear it's orbit of little islands before being called a planet.
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If that photo was taken right before impact, none of the continents will remain continents because it's all about to melt and we might have another moon when everything settles down and we evolve back from scratch over the next several billion years.
The only survivors would be Australia's infamous Magma Spiders.
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Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.
And thats why you'll never be a real planet!
Heresy! Australia will always be a planet.
No! Austria will never be a planet nor continent. It is a white, European country and I'm willing to die on that hill!
Absolute size isn't really in the criteria for a planet though. Pluto isn't a planet because it shares its orbit with lots of other icy bodies in the Kuiper belt.
Exactly. That's also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn't a planet either.
Do you mean the Trojans? They're excluded from the mass calculation of 'clearing the neighbourhood' because they're in a resonant orbit - their orbit is a consequence of Jupiter's mass.
I don't know. I don't think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto's doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?
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Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.
Straya's never been a planet, mate.
Yeah, but it is a pretty big island.
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As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it's small, that's why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!
I have this Tshirt
I get groans
Hey wtf put Pluto back to where it belongs. Do you have any idea how bad this is for the world economics???
Would the owner of a beige 1930 dwarf planet please move it, or we will have it towed.
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Still can't unsee Pluto(the dog) on Pluto
Take that King Flippy Nips!
That’s an avocado pit and you know it
No way!
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In future news; Donald X Musk III, worlds first quintillionare, decided to alter Pluto's orbit to collide with Mars "Becauth it would be thoo cool!".
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