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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Vapor Weyve

      Yeah and bizarrely people will become deeply emotionally invested in their childhood knowledge not becoming false even when it has no relevance to their lives or any "social justice issue" Remember Pluto no longer being a planethttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1291071654127427584 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Vapor Weyve @Nymphomachy
      Which gets escalated into some pretty specious and oppressive shit Like dismissing intersex people as "an anomaly" because they don't fit into these people's entrenched views of the world If intersex people were relevant you would have learned about them in elementary school
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020

      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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    4. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      There's no such thing as a 'planet' anyway. I mean, all taxonomies are socially constructed, but planet might be the ideal case. Like, what we mean by it is "biggish, interesting place to visit"

      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein

      Yeah why would anyone even think of Earth and Jupiter as the same kind of thing

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    6. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Conceptually, it didn't include Earth at all, and then for a while, DID include the Sun and Moon. All of which makes sense if you're an astronomer going off limited observations.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

      And eventually, you got to this long stretch where there seemed to be a very nice, meaningful number of planets. It changed with the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, but it was still workable.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect

      Then it broke down, and they just tried to save it by including orbital parameters, which isn't at all what it's really about in any kind of public or even scientific imagination.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein

      The guy who invented the concept of "clearing the neighborhood" they used was one of the people opposed to the new definition, saying it wasn't actually an objectively defined quality but one made up for convenience

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein

      Earth hasn't actually "cleared its neighborhood" in any absolute sense, and thanks to the fact that we live here we have quite an exhaustive list of all the trash still in our neighborhood, even if an astronomer on Ganymede wouldn't find it notable

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein

          Well that's a can of Discourse to open up The current definition of being a "planet" or not depends the idea of a scientific, objective difference between a "clean room" and a "cluttered room"

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein

          "It's just a pair of socks, I'll get it in the morning"

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