• @Tattorack
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    273 days ago

    If Emilia is a scientist at heart and heard that Pluto was reclassified because we found many more like it, she’d probably be fascinated. Mind blown, even, that we’ve found Sedna, Ceres, Makemake, a bunch of others I’ve forgotten the name of, and a few more that just have a number.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      133 days ago

      On the other hand, she was just introduced to the concept of things like interstellar travel and aliens, so “someone took away one of our planets” wouldn’t have been all that far-fetched. (Especially since the dialogue in the post doesn’t actually mention Pluto. Maybe she thought it was Venus.)

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      12 days ago

      Granted, we found Ceres, christened it a planet, and demoted it to asteroid long before we found Pluto.