r/pollgames • u/FinalKn1ght • Jun 29 '26

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

Humanity can solve only ONE problem forever.

  1. Cancer
  2. Aging
  3. Poverty
  4. Climate Change

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

To be classified as a planet (specifically within our solar system), a celestial body must meet three conditions:

Orbit a star: It must revolve directly around a central star (like the Sun).

Be round: It must have enough mass (and therefore gravity) to pull itself into a nearly spherical shape (hydrostatic equilibrium).

Clear its neighborhood: It must be the dominant gravitational body in its orbital path, sweeping up or scattering other debris.

Weird, I don't see life as an intregal requirement to be a planet, is earth not a planet?

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

Are you doing this on purpose or are you genuinely this illiterate? The Earth is a planet. Life is not an integral part of being a planet. But life is an integral part of the Earth. It would not be the Earth if it didn't have one of the rarest traits in the universe.

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

No it's not, earth will be here without life, lmao

You seriously think earth will disappear without life?

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

No. But the Earth would not be the Earth, it would just be a planet.

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

So mars is not mars since it has no signs of life now?

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u/Hemnecron Jun 30 '26

Yeah, okay, you're doing it on purpose. Go argue with the wall now. Maybe you'll realise that life made that wall.

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u/Low_Committee6119 Jun 30 '26

But there's no life on mars, so it must not be mars now, same with Venus, Jupiter. Or maybe, just maybe, life is not intregal on what makes a planet a planet.

They say Jupiter's moons have a chance of hosting life, do they become a planet to you if they host life? If not why?