Develop agriculture and domesticate animals and become the first species in 3.7 billion years to finally beat the constant struggle for food and basically defeat hunger as a society and nobody says shit.

Draw one picture of a stick figure fucking a giant sloth on a cave wall and you will be known as the Northern Slothfuckers for all of history.

Additionally, imagine if it’s true that the universe is actually infinite. There’s no real reason to believe it’s not, and if it is, that means we cannot possibly predict some things about it. Such as the chances of us living in a densely populated region versus being literally a trillion light-years from the nearest occupied planet. Large-scale patterns of distribution of just about anything could look like anything imaginable over any given area, and there may never be a scale in which homogeneity becomes stable and perpetual.

The whole thing is bait, I just can’t figure out for what. It’s just generally annoying I guess.

And not only would something have to be alive there, they would have to have be intelligent and have formed civilization that is currently using radio technology, AND be at a point where they are actively listening at the point in which the signal arrives there, assuming we can send a signal strong enough to be received at all at that distance, which may be doubtful unless we put in a lot of effort as a species to send a super-signal to a distant star.

For reference, Earth has had life for somewhere between 3.5 to 4 billion years. Our entire species has lived for around a million years at most, and out of that time we only figured out electromagnetism in the last couple centuries, and only started actively using radio in the last century.

A hundred years out of ~4,000,000,000 is microscopically small. If another species developed their technology a century or two before or after us we have no way to know if they would possibly notice or recieve a radio signal, but it’s far more likely if the planet had intelligent life that it would have developed some number of millions of years before or after us. We don’t even know if other intelligent beings would use radio.

I’m sure there are or have been plenty of sapient beings emerging in the galaxy but they could have had entire, multi-million year epic stories play out and rise to glorious intergalactic heights with grand stellar-empires, and then either collapse in a million-year war or evolve past material consciousness, and still have been just a pinpoint in the timeline somewhere between the extinction of our dinosaurs and like, the evolution of early whales.

To say we are ships passing in the night would be a vast understatement of the problem.

Nobody is stopping you but be warned 90% of Dilbert is utter crap, might be entertaining to a child, some weird child who works in a cubicle or something.

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he problem is that the current definition makes no sense and is, frankly, bad.

You haven’t said why though, I have received zero good arguments why reclassifying a ball of ice and rock that crosses other planetary orbits harms science, it’s a dumb hill to even point at, much less die on.

When your brain won’t shut the fuck up, almost anything that changes your thought pattern is going to become an option.

Caffeine and stimulants are good for focusing and staying on-task, I don’t feel like it works nearly as good as prescription medications though and generally caffeine ends up causing too much anxiety and ironically, grogginess.

THC isn’t necessarily a downer and can make you super freaked out, but sometimes if you can dose it just right and keep your mental state focused it can help reframe your perspective, but it’s easy to get stuck in a cycle of having a dozen bad trips that make you feel awful chasing that one good one.

I have what a doctor called autism presenting as ADHD, makes me prone to PTSD and a few other acronyms.

For me, caffeine is absolutely a help when I have to work on a complex task, even if I’m not groggy I can’t seem to focus without a few coffees. I have studied it, I know how it works. But it also can crash me hard, too much and I get groggy and it can take days to balance my sleep cycle again.

When it comes to cannabis/THC, it can be very hit-or-miss. When I was younger it was fine, now I have to be super careful and can only really tolerate edibles. I joked in a thread above about finishing the day with a “bag” of edibles, but honestly, that shit can make my feelings of despair and anxiety so bad that it leaves me incapacitated and traumatized. Overuse feels like it does lasting harm, so in my older, wiser years I reduce all mind-altering chemicals, including caffeine. Just because something is socially acceptable doesn’t mean it’s safe.

Self medication is a dangerous game, and stressful to talk about online because there’s always going to be some paradoxically defensive and angry, addicted stoner ready to chime in that HIS habit isn’t dangerous, and that saying anything negative about his drug of choice is going to cause congress to instantly reclassify it.

If we don’t have seven coffees and two energy drinks and then end the day with a bag of edibles, are we even really living?

Pluto is a wonderful, amazing and beautiful world. I will never forget the awe I felt when I saw the first images when New Horizons blasted past it, the colors and textures and vivid landscapes and variety and hazy atmosphere layers, an utter treat, literally brought tears to my eyes that I got to see something I thought I would never see in my lifetime.

All that said, it’s fine it’s been reclassified, it takes nothing away from the world and the dwarf planets are ALL interesting and worth admiring.

Okay you googled what classifies a planet and saw the line about mercury, I am familiar but not sure how that makes any of this “unscientific.” Mercury mostly fits the criteria, pluto definitely does not.

I’m just confused how anyone has a problem with this, nothing is perfect, nothing has hard boundaries but we have to draw lines somewhere or we have solar system models where when we say “planet” we include 90 other objects that are very far removed from each other, besides being “somewhat roundish.”

I’m perfectly fine with 400 astronomers deciding to draw a line somewhere, they’re ones doing the goddamn work. I’m sure there’s a share of people seeking attention pretending to be outraged, but why give those voices power? If you’re an astronomer doing planetary science, you need to define different kinds of bodies, they’re not doing it to make people comfortable, and it shouldn’t make you uncomfortable, if it does that’s really, really weird. From the outside it screams some kind of issues with authority.

Yes, you are right it changes nothing in how we live, so I’m baffled why there’s always one out a hundred people just angry that people doing science changed something in the way they do work.

I don’t think the original user I was asking actually has logical steps as much as a desperate need to get negative attention online, but thank you for the good faith attempt.

How is that unscientific though? We need to create definitions and classifications, and it makes more sense to create that definition in the simplest place possible. IE: it’s simpler to consider Pluto a dwarf planet along with many, many other dwarf planets, than create a new solar-system model that has 50 more actual planets.

And lets say that we went with the 50+ planet solar-system model… what would be the delineation point there? What standard should we use to preserve that number 50? What if we find 50 more small bodies in the coming years? Where does it end?

The reclassification of Pluto made more sense than just saying we don’t have a clearly defined solar system. Planetary science requires the terminology so we can say what we’re looking at. Planets? Dwarf planets? Trojans? trans-neptunian objects? There is a LOT of stuff out there, we can’t call it ALL planets. So where would you have drawn the line that makes it “more scientific?”

edit: sorry, i thought you were the person who first posted that this was “unscientific,” but the argument stands.

There is a fantastic array of worldlets out there. I am so excited for Lucy and getting first glimpses of worlds we’ve never seen like the Trojans dragged along by Jupiter. We are so fortunate to be in an age where we get to see these sights. I feel like it’s easy to forget just how amazing this entire thing is, that we’re seeing the surface of places beyond Earth… and so far most of them have been unique and surprising in some way.

Oh? Do explain, and pretend I don’t actually know a lot about planetary science.

Edit: Looked at user history and .ml suffix. I shouldn’t be surprised at this kind of take, nor hold my breath for a smart answer.

Depends on the origin of the neutrino. The really old ones leftover from the beginning of the universe are so low-energy that they’re like, a millionth of an electron volt. Very not-hot.

A supernova-originated neutrino can have over 30 mega-electron-volts. For a single particle, that’s pretty hot. You still wouldn’t feel it if it hit you though.

Anyone who complains about this are the same people who whinged about the change of Pluto’s status as a planet.

In that, they are clinging to nostalgia instead of embracing a new, wondrous truth. Feathers and fur on dinosaurs shows an entirely new way of imagining the world before us, just like Pluto’s downgrade was simply because we found potentially thousands of more Pluto’s.

I think a lot of people broadly are insecure about change right now. Stability feels precious, and this nostalgic retreat is being leveraged by anti-science groups.

The good news is Dourif is such a good actor and played such an iconic character in that role, that I doubt anyone is going to connect him to the apt-term that is already spreading through public lexicon.

I feel strongly part of why he’s even more “shrieky” and unhinged than normal is because the GOP broadly has NO plan right now for when Trump keels over. They tried so desperately hard to parade JD Vance around to get him ready to take the reigns, but so far MAGA haaates him, he talks like a politician, he has all that inhuman proceduralism that made people embrace Trump’s open hatred and malice.

So Miller is slowly realizing once Trump dies, which could be any moment, that he’s going to potentially face charges, and all the comparisons to people who met their end on a rope are likely dancing around in the back of that huge, empty skull.