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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well there are deepening levels of understanding depending on the learner's pre-existing understanding of the world (e.g. matter > atoms > protons/neutrons/electrons > fermions), and there are things that are just plain incorrect, that were assumed to be correct, because science advances (e.g. Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury).

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury

It isn't?!

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You have to be shitting me... Pluto is a fucking Care Bear planet:

Pluto - Tombaugh_Regio

Nobody told me that in the seventies...

[–] Klear@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I hate you so much right now 🙂

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's really cool! (Because the average temperature on Pluto is apparently -387°F, or -232°C.)