• 5 Posts
  • 331 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 8th, 2023

help-circle












  • Yes, we would recognise that there is something distinctly different between the Earth and the planets. Being a world is different from being a planet. Otherwise all the moons would be planets. Well, maybe except for the ones that look like potatoes.

    Things can get defined separately from themselves. And they can be defined to be several things. I’m a Norwegian and a German because of my parents. If I had different parents my nationality could be defined differently. Doesn’t make me less human.

    Pluto is still a celestial body, a dwarf planet, a world to explore, a trans-neptunian object, an object in the Kuiper belt, that thing we called planet for a short time. Not being called “planet” doesn’t make it any less interesting or special.








  • No set rules, just goofing around. When we got too annoying for the rest of the newsgroup we moved to a mailing list and met up in real life a bunch of times.

    First time my father flew me there in a small sports plane. They had gotten the permission to greet me on the air field with a limousine blasting the Force Commander remix of the Imperial March and a black carpet. All the Jedi, Sith and in-betweens were waving Emperor-flags and greeted me as was befitting a man of my status.

    Did I mention that I was 14 at the time and everyone else about 30?

    Good times.