Honestly we mock Neil DeGrasse Tyson so much for his tireless pedantry but to briefly defend him on just this one thing I think him becoming a lightning rod for "Plutogate" broke his brain He literally got death threats over stating simple, empirical facts about astronomy
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Pluto getting "demoted" because for so long we thought it was the only one of its kind and then suddenly discovered it was just the most visible of dozens of them feels symbolic of something Pluto is the Caitlyn Jenner of trans-Neptunian objects
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Or people getting absolutely furious at the suggestion of feathered dinosaurs.
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Please don't bring Pluto into this. That one still stings.
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