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God of Death (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pluto was demoted in 2006, Harambe was killed in 2016. We are not ready for 2026.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2026 better be the zombie apocalypse, if we keep getting the other catastrophes first there won't be enough people to become zombies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Protomolecule zombies

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is a good hypothesis. Mine has been that the Mayan calendar was right, but the end of the world is a slower process than we all assumed.

Maybe Pluto and Cizin are tag teaming. Science!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And thunderous applause

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And my axe!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And Larry.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Millions of asteroids would like a word...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and charon, which is in mutual orbit with pluto and not that much smaller

which really shows how much the average "pluto is a planet" person actually knows about space, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And my mates Ceres and Sedna! And Orcus, Makemake, Haumea, Eris (which started this whole deal), Gonggong, Quaoar, Salacia, Leleākūhonua, and at least 40 undiscovered Sednoids. Vesta, Pallas, Hygeia, and Interamnia probably counted at one point too!

At some point it stops being gatekeeping and is just another kingdom entirely.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

The way I look at it, we didn't lose a planet. We gained several others as dwarf planets. Dwarf planets are still planets after all. Pluto is their king. And if there's one thing we should have all learned by now it's that you don't mess with dwarf kings.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Uh, the planet isn't named after some old Roman guy sweaty, it's named after Goofy's dog.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That would explain our current predicament pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Pluto never changed; we did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

At least half of the reason is that 2012 was roughly when a lot of millennials graduated from highschool and had to get jobs and pay bills and shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nasa?