You and your third dimension.
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The moon is a star as in “celestial body”. It’s pretty recent that “stars” are understood to be suns and closely related bodies.
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Honestly, this just makes me so sad that I can’t even make fun of them.
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Yeah, my wording was awkward. I meant why is this being presented as if it just happened?
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Oh the banality!
Really though, I just imagine people strapped to a steady IV of cable television when I see things like this.
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“Recent”, as in “way more than a century ago” -.-’ . This is 3rd-grade stuff. If that.
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Actually the moon is a planet by the original Greek definition – πλανήτης (planētēs), meaning “wanderer”. The Greeks distinguished between planets, which appear to move in the sky versus stars, which didn’t. The sun is also a planet by the same definition.
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Human error?
Desperation to talk about something other than 45 & Co perpetually?
Yes, the incident is old and I thought this story was a prime example of the Dumbening when it first happened; that said I’m relieved to have any breaks in monotony of the 24-hour-bad-news cycle.
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No words… they should… have sent… a poet.
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Specifically, the only real difference is that a “planet” mainly orbits a star, while a “moon” mainly orbits another planet. But this becomes very ambiguous, indeed, in the case of “binary planets”. As noted above, the Earth-Moon system is commonly enough (and correctly) referred to as a “binary planet”, as an excellent example. At some arbitrary point, it’s all semantics.
Of course, that doesn’t really help the idiots in the video much ^^’.
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“The moon is such a planet I can’t even stand it.”
Such an epic combination of uncertainty and getting ready to maybe be enraged and stuff.
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I was under the impression that a binary planet system had both bodies orbiting a barycenter outside the surface of either body.
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You’re not wrong but you’re not fully right, either ^^’
Again, it’s just a matter of semantics and convention; it generally makes no difference at all, either way, to the scientific community, except to their equivalent of “grammar Nazis”.
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So the only difference between a moon and a planet is that they’re different.
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Well it’s hardly surprising they’re confused. Bloody Astronomical Union keeps changing the definitions to exclude planets they don’t like.
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What about it?
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I often wondered what happened to the kids who just kind of slid by in school. I worried what kind of job they might find as an adult. Mystery solved.
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The Moon is so big that the Earth-Moon system qualifies as a binary planet. Alternatively you could argue that the Earth is the Moon’s moon.
But I can see the woman’s argument. The sun and the moon are exactly the same size in the sky and they both seem to shine brightly. So they must be the same sort of thing, right?
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well put.
If this monk ever learns about astrophysics, his mind is going to be so blown.
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That would make the Sun and Jupiter a binary star system. Jupiter being a failed star.
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