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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Poor Pluto. One day you’re a planet, the next day you’re a “dwarf with potential.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Look, those damn things (Pluto / Charon, since they're basically a double bodied system) get closer to the Sun than Neptune, at certain points in their orbit.

There's dozens of similarly sized objects buzzing around in the same region, and probably thousands of not millions in the Oort cloud.

The only reason “Pluto” were ever called a planet is that they coincidentally happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when Tombaugh used Lowell's miscalculations to look for an hypothetical transneptunian planet (Lowell, at least, had the excuse of having died before Einstein published his theory of relativity, but Tombaugh should have known that Newton wasn't enough for this kind of thing).