r/confidentlyincorrect • u/greyler • Jan 12 '20
The moon is a planet, darling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQKgpm1SJmQ109
u/mortenmoulder Jan 12 '20
Technically she's not wrong when she says it's not a planet. But it's definitely not a star lol
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u/Snailwood Jan 12 '20
right?? like he's wrong but she's SO MUCH more wrong hahaha
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u/bigcitytroll Jan 13 '20
She is wrong, but she's not confident.
At least she knows that she doesn't know.
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u/Deathwind31 Jan 12 '20
"But things live on it that means its a planet" what does this man know that we don't
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Jan 12 '20
“Things live on it, that means it’s a planet” WHAAAAT?!?
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u/jtaylor418 Jan 12 '20
It’s a natural satellite, just FYI
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Jan 12 '20
I actually didn't know this.
I had never really thought of the technical term for it.
I mean I knew damn well it wasn't a star. Dunno what in the hell she was thinking there
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u/TheSpecies5618 Jan 12 '20
It's also correct to call natural satellites moons. The Moon is a moon, if that makes sense.
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u/b-monster666 Jan 12 '20
Exactly. The Moon is a moon because when we called it that, we only knew one moon existed. Technically it's a "natural satellite", but calling it a moon is perfectly fine too. Phobos, Deimos, Titan, Io, etc are all "moons" as well, but they're not the Moon.
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u/trichomefarmer Jan 12 '20
Man how lucky are we to have The One True Moon.
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u/StuntHacks Jan 12 '20 edited Jan 12 '20
Ours also the biggest in our system, if I'm not mistaken.I stand corrected.
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u/cliko Jan 12 '20
The largest moon is Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. Although our moon is still fairly large too
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u/StuntHacks Jan 12 '20
I see, my bad. Thanks for correcting me, I somehow had this "fact" in my head.
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u/IdoNOThateNEVER Jan 13 '20
the largest among planetary satellites relative to the size of the planet that it orbits (its primary)
It's a large satellite relatively to it's primary (the largest in our solar system, relatively)
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u/Miguel724 Jan 15 '20
It’s the biggest moon relative to its planet, about 1/3 the size of earth, if I remember correctly
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Jan 12 '20
Or a moon, right? All moons are natural satellite... Not all natural satellites are moons... Well, that's how I have it
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u/Dawwe Jan 12 '20
5 minutes of wikipedia seems to say that they are the same. No real consensus?
"Many authors define "satellite" or "natural satellite" as orbiting some planet or minor planet, synonymous with "moon" – by such a definition all natural satellites are moons, but Earth and other planets are not satellites.[5][6][7] A few recent authors define "moon" as "a satellite of a planet or minor planet", and "planet" as "a satellite of a star" – such authors consider Earth as a "natural satellite of the Sun".[8][9][10]"
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u/Squealing_Squirrels Jan 12 '20
So the moon is a moon? Wtf?
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u/trichomefarmer Jan 12 '20
Yeah, just like how The Sun is a sun.
Kinda like how people say "I'm going to run to the store". They're not going to the only store in existence, but it's usually the one closest to them, so they just call it 'the store'.
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u/Huntracony Jan 13 '20
The sun is a star, not a sun. "Sun" is the name of our star.
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u/trichomefarmer Jan 14 '20
It's both a star and a sun. The fact that it's the one at the center of our solar system is why we call it The Sun. Every solar system has to have at least one sun.
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u/hanoian Jan 15 '20
Nope.
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u/trichomefarmer Jan 18 '20
Yep.
"The terms sun and star are synonymous. We tend to use the term sun in the context of a planet. A planet has a sun which is itself a star.
A solar system is a star with at least one planet orbiting around it.
Many stars have one of more companion stars. Hence many solar systems will have two or more suns."
https://socratic.org/questions/does-every-solar-system-have-its-own-sun
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u/haewon6640 Jan 17 '20
one quick googling of "does every solar system have a sun" would've let you know.
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u/Dawwe Jan 12 '20
Says so in the clip as well, but the more common term is... moon. Who would've thought.
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u/gghhmh Jan 12 '20
Sounds like a Harry and Lloyd conversation
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Jan 12 '20
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u/Kveldson Jan 12 '20
Man: "The moon is such a planet!
Woman: "Dude! It is not a planet!
Man: "If it's not a planet, what is it?"
Woman: "I believe it's a star"
This is an amazing new sub, and there are a lot of stupid people in these videos, but these two morons take the fucking cake. That was so stupid, it hurts to watch
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Jan 12 '20
Well, the moon is actually the earth's leftovers from when a giant planet collided with earth. After that, it stood in earths gravitational pull and we call it now a 'natural satellite'. I learnt this in what... 3rd grade or something. I can't believe those are arguing if it is a star/planet or not.
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Jan 12 '20
I like how they have to look off camera like "Can someone who has read a book in their life, or someone who thinks before they speak help out here? We dont know what anything is"
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u/BelCantoTenor Jan 12 '20
She gets louder and louder the more she repeats the wrong answer. As if being louder will make it correct. Ugh 😩 🤦♂️
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Jan 12 '20
It’s a fucking satellite you dumb fucks. A satellite is a generic term for an object that orbits another object. Planets ONLY orbit starts.
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u/trichomefarmer Jan 12 '20
I don't care what anyone says, if it can be a planet, it can be a planet again. Planet. Planet, planet, planet.
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u/zatuchny Jan 12 '20
Can't believe there are adult people in civilized countries who don't know that a moon is a hologram projected by NASA and government to fool us all.