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We need more users named after planets (hexbear.net)

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@[email protected] needs a dope crew

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Planets are star poop. Enjoy being named after my poop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gulp

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Get mooned

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ooooooooooooooh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Well, we have @[email protected] and I guess @[email protected]

One's an obscure dwarf planet and the other is a "Blood Moon" (the type that, I guess, you read about in those evagelical Christian fundamentalist "prophecy" books I see on Amazon.com).

Also, I'm not officially a planet.

So...

We have nobody that's named after a planet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when making my account i checked the available planets, and there is an account name for Venus (who is fairly active), Mars (not very active), and Mercury (last post 4 years ago), but none of them have a picture of the planet as profile picture smh.

also 'obscure' ooooooooooooooh (but true)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, I remember Venus

[+] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, really?

You're telling me that not only were the literal protests in the 2000s over Pluto's demotion done for a stupid reason (which was, ostensibly, Pluto "not being a planet anymore") but that the reason wasn't even true and valid to begin with?

HA!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the international astronomical union defines planet and dwarf planet to be distinct classes of object within the solar system, which means the official iau definition is that dwarf planets are not planets even though the word "planet" is in the name. but the protests were really about their definition not being a very good one, partly for that reason. according to the iau, for instance, exoplanets are also not planets, because planets have to be orbiting our sun in particular. there can only ever be 8 planets in the entire universe!

@[email protected] a dwarf frog is a frog that is small, but a dwarf planet doesn't meet the criteria for planet, so it's not one according to the iau.

i'm well aware that this is a 20-year-old niche nerd argument and you're both welcome to make fun of me for having a strong opinion about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't make fun of you. We're friends, right? I remember you and I were mods for Hexbear, but I could be wrong. I was the first one to welcome you, I think?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah i meant making fun of me in a friendly way, i know neither of you would make fun of me maliciously

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nice! That's good to know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

big-cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

lea-finger-guns

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Reporting for duty

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Florn

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Frankly

We can also have people named after exo-planets.

Honestly, I'm kinda warming up to this idea... and I'm supposed to be a cold planet!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever play Protocorgi?

Yeah, its based on me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile, we have Yurt Owl (couldn't find their actual Hexbear handle so I couldn't bring 'em here) and, I think, one other "owl" user named after you.

Hmmmmm

Frankly, if we're going to make the whole "celestial body names" a thing on Hexbear, it should be dwarf planets to, like, raise awareness of celestial structures outside the original eight official planets.

Plus, I like obscure shit so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yurt_Owl is no more, there is now only Gorb

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...Gorbachev?

agony-shivering

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gorby-sad

I brought pizza hut to the USSR can you say the same? Where's pizza hut on pluto?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still can't believe USSR died for stuffed crust...

kitty-birthday-sad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to be fair, every now and then I feel like I would, too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, it is stuffed crust...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WDYM? We don't have any users named after planets

spoiler

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

See: context's post.

Haha, get it? Context.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, my real name is Kepler 452b but my friends and family call me Toobie, does that count?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mfw Epsilon Eridani B enters the function 👁️👄👁️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

TIL about Epsilon Eridani B...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I wonder if anyone on hexbear.net would be interested in starting a sailor moon crew lea-think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

where's pluto's charon? hyperflush