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[labellementeuse]

OH OH ITEM OF COOLNESS:

Tenth Planet Discovered!

That is kind of cool. Although, you know, if Pluto is 40AU out and Planet X is 97 AU* out, is that a planet or just a supah-large Oort Cloud object? How far out is the Oort Cloud anyway?

Okay, Wikipedia Says 50,000-100,000 AU out. Which, dude, is a long way to travel for long-period comets, I never really thought about that before. Anyway. So I guess not a supermassive Oort cloud object. And it's bigger than Kuiper belt objects because they think it's bigger than Pluto which kind of sits on the fine line- some people think it's a planet, some people think it's a big Kuiper belt object.

Um, anyway. Yay, new planet? I don't really have an appropriate icon for this...

*1 AU=Astronomical Unit= distance from Earth to Sun

Comments

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

We-ell.... I thought it was pretty common knowledge, I have to say. :p Are you sure?

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Well it's common knowledge for us. I'm always being mortified at how much more trivia I know than other people.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Um, not, i thought it was common knowledge for everyone.

And, if you don't mind me saying so, that seems to be an extremely wrongheaded reason to be mortified. And somewhat indicative of a superior attitude I find sort of repellent.

A tip: if you assume everyone else knows what you know, maybe sometimes you have to stop and explain yourself, but it's a hell of a lot better than assuming you know more than everyone. Because, you know, people do not react even remotely well to that, and, furthermore, it's generally incorrect.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Actually I think you'll find it's all about self-hatred.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

(that is, I think I'm massively INFERIOR for knowing too much)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I understand what you're saying. :-/ But, look, be proud of what you know- otherwise there's no point- but don't... oh, this is too hard to explan. *facepalm* Sorry. *hugs* Apologies...

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

that's fine. Complicated situation of having a self-esteem that's convinced its owner is an abomination *hugs back* I'm still working on trying to convince myself that I'm a person, not a worm.