funkmasterrex · 4 years ago
Keep getting that URL message.
Anyway... @iccarus Pluto is physically incapable of clearing it's own orbit. It's in a spherical comet field. By the time it even got close the Sun would have gone Red Giant and blown everything away and Pluto's orbit would destabilize.
funkmasterrex · 4 years ago
Or, and this isn't a joke, the dance Neptune and Uranus due might dislodge a different dwarf planet and send it on a collision course with Pluto and end it. There are 3 dwarf planets we know of, but there are over 400 objects that are very close... sort of like Ceres.
iccarus · 4 years ago
ok, then if pluto isn't a planet, what about the gas giants? they are giant clouds, not planets
funkmasterrex · 4 years ago
That's a common misconception. The assumption they are just clouds and nothing else literally denies all known science, gravity in particular. We do know Jupiter and Saturn both have something there that is generating very strong magnetosphere; Jupiter's is so large it can actually reach the Sun if the Sun is acting up. This implies a liquid metallic hydrogen layer.... sort of like an ocean that you can swim through, but liquid metallic hydrogen..... which you can not swim through. It cannot be proven simply because any probe you'd send in would implode and fail before ever getting close, but all the math lines up and is consistent.
funkmasterrex · 4 years ago
Ergo, there is a surface.
funkmasterrex · 4 years ago
Neptune and Uranus might have a rocky center, but it's still the same concept.
funkmasterrex · 4 years ago
A "cloud" would be more like a stellar nursery.
bethorien · 4 years ago
idk whats going on here but on the pluto being a planet thing, even the people that got pluto de-planet-ed have talked about having second thoughts about it and thinking it may have been a mistake