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[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Damn, this is a 14 year old video and it mentions Pluto not being a planet. I thought that just happened recently.

Fuck you for making me feel old!

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Pluto not being a planet?

Take those filthy words outta your mouth. Tiny Pluto is a Planet. Just because some shithead astrophysicists have a meeting and say it isn't so doesn't make it true.

Me and some friends with theoretical degrees in physics have created a competing group who insist tiny Pluto is a planet. We call it Tiny Pluto is a Planet, Tiny PP for short. It's weird, lots of people enthusiastically share our views, but when I ask them to register for TinyPP, they go quiet. Nevermind, we fight for our cause! For the planet!

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[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

That's amazing and i would love to support your cause, how does one become a member of this TinyPP club?

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

You just did! Congratulations.

Now just spread the word of TinyPP.

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[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago

Jerry? Is that you?

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[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago

Damn, there were two obligatory videos!

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 29 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I see two impostors, not one. Asia and Europe.

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 11 months ago* (8 children)

North/South America is also not separated by ocean...

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago (7 children)

If you count the Panama Canal and squint, you can make an argument. Not so much for the above.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Same thing applies to Africa and Eurasia, no?

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The panama canal is not an ocean...and man made. No amount of squinting could make it a reasonable argument to count it.

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Then you don't count Africa either?

In fact if it has to be surrounded by an ocean then there are only two continents, Antarctica and everything else. You can cross them all without entering an ocean, only seas.

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Technically no, not when using the same argument.

Although Australia is also surrounded by ocean so Antarctica, Australia, and everything else

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago

Australia (country) has Timor Sea and Arafura Sea on the north, not an ocean. But New Guinea belongs to Australia (continent), so it doesn't actually matter, both sides of the sea are the same continent. Unless we consider only the main landmass of each continent and ignore all islands.

Panama, with it's canal, is entirely in North America too, so the canal doesn't matter anyway.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Africa being an ocean is supported by there being saltwater between it and Asia. The panama canal(s) connect freshwater lakes to bridge the gap between the Pacific and the Atlantic.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

saltwater between it and Asia

If the Panama Canal doesn't count, neither does the Suez Canal, IMO.

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Australia, isn't it Oceania

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yes, but there is no formal definition so the post is pointless anyway.

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (10 children)

America is a single continent too, or 3 subcontinents if you like to divide things.

(Turns out the OP's definition is completely wrong, but who cares?)

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago (9 children)

It is? I learnt north and south were separate. So I guess what makes a continent a continent? Also what would the 3 subcontinents be? North, central, south? (Guesses wildly)

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Everyone learns different definitions based on their education system’s world view, leading to a number of continents somewhere between 3 and 20. It turns out that nature doesn’t care for humans’ desire to put everything into neat, well-defined little boxes.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

20?!

My own view is 4: Antarctica, Australia, America, Afro-eurasia. I'm not sure how you'd get to 3, unless you disqualified Australia.

I've also heard 7: Antarctica, Australia, split North + South America, split Africa + Europe + Asia.

I suppose you could add a few -- I've heard the phrase "subcontinent of India", so that could be an 8th continent. Then maybe Greenland for 9. Beyond that, though? IDK what would even make sense.

BRB, I have to go search for expansive continent definitions.