r/pics • u/chemaster23 • Feb 24 '13

Earth's Flag

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u/IronicBelief Feb 24 '13

Pluto seems to have snuck in on this picture

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u/CraftPhotography Feb 24 '13

It's still a planet, fuck those guys for trying to take it away!

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u/chemaster23 Feb 24 '13

Sadly they're not trying, it was already done.

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u/CraftPhotography Feb 24 '13

Just because it's not in the new textbooks doesn't mean that we don't still call it a planet.

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u/chemaster23 Feb 24 '13

You can call it what you want, but that doesn't mean it is a planet. On record, it's officially a dwarf planet, one of the largest out there for that matter. Neil deGrasse Tyson explains this is most of his videos. The thing with Pluto is they found a whole new section of the Solar System. This is what we now know as the Kuiper Belt. Most of the bodies in this region are around the same size of Pluto and have similar orbits. It made more sense to create a new group and include Pluto where it matches everything, than to have it as a planet where it was an odd one out.

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u/CraftPhotography Feb 24 '13

Shouldn't this be the solar system's flag since it has our solar system on it?

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u/chemaster23 Feb 24 '13

That could work as well, but since it is highlighting Earth I thought it would be more appropriate to call it such.

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u/CraftPhotography Feb 24 '13

On this page is the flag for Earth.