Zoozve, Venus's weird little moon

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/12/zoozve-venuss-weird-little-moon.html

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annoy the sort of scientists who become annoyed when you call Pluto a planet and they know you’re only saying that it because it isn’t

Justice for Pluto! How can you say a cute little celestial body like this should be kicked out of the club?

pluto GIF

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Huh. I was told its name was Tetra. And that it had left its orbit and was about to collide with Earth. And that only those who were clean inwardly and outwardly would survive the apocalypse.

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It’s clearly pronounced as one syllable, like “shove” except with z and a long o sound: ZHOOOVE! And you must say it with verve.

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It’s like one of those (off-)brand names that shows up on Amazon.

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Only bad things have happened since they did Pluto dirty.

Dip Loh DOC Us

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Good point.

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If you’re going to give shit to astronomers for redesignating Pluto as a minor planet (which, harrumph, it is), then you should use the proper descriptor of Zoozve: “quasi-moon”.

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I mean…I think you’re calling yourself out here a little.

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or with one of these:

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I know what I am.

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There is only Zuul.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me!

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Direct link to the Radiolab episode:

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/zoozve/

And followup:

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/breaking-newsve-about-zoozve/

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Didn’t Billy Joel made a song about this?

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Mmmm… spicy cilantro…

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Wait, you’re insisting on the older classification of Pluto – as if it’s bad we found it friends that it actually fits in with – but the newer pronunciation of Diplodocus? People really just attach to whatever they happened to grow up with, huh.

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I thought we were going with worst pronunciation?

If we are going with preferred then I like dih PLO dih kiss

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My brain wants to rhyme this with “Doug”.

Oh No Facepalm GIF by NickRewind

Thanks. I hate it :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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If any planet deserved to benefit from the Streisand Effect, it would be Pluto.

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