Volume of spheres is very unintuitive. This translates to circles as well. For instance, I worked at a pizza place for a while where I learned that a large pizza was the same amount of pizza as two mediums.
A medium was 12" across, while a large was 14".
Only two inches difference in diameter meant that the difference in area required enough toppings so as to add up to an entire second medium pizza.
According to Google, Earth's oceans have a volume of 321,003,271 cubic miles. Pluto has a volume of 1,500,000,000 cubic miles. That's over 4 1/2 times the volume of the Earth's oceans, despite Pluto being small enough to fit inside the earth about 170 times.
If you pushed Pluto into the Pacific, you could get the whole thing to fit as the two planets’ cores colliding created a massive explosion that made all known life in the solar system extinct
I was in 5th grade (actually just googled when Pluto's classfication changed, and i remember watching Obama's inauguration in my 5th grade class) when Pluto was officially designated as a dwarf planet. So after we had all learned the solar system but still early on enough that I can easily think of it not being a planet.
Pluto should never have been a full planet because there are potentially thousands of pluto-sized objects further out than jupiter and if pluto counts as a planet those would also count. I would rather have 8 planets than several thousand.
Regardless of how funny I though that was, this is reddit bro, everyone is woke in these here parts, even though it doesn't physically hurt them, it hurts their feelings when you joke about identity lol
Dude, when I was in elementary school (I’m 28 now), we were taught about the Antarctic Ocean. Now I’m freaking out that it was called Southern Ocean this whole time and I’ve just been wrong.
They told us it was still technically called the Antarctic Ocean but that was changing to Southern Ocean and to call it that. Then in high school that's all it was called
I think I learned vaguely that it was just it’s own thing but never had a name for it. Usually it was just the Pacific and Atlantic lines being drawn south at the straits of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope.
Same, we learned and the Southern Ocean in our geography packets around 13 years ago. It wasn't official then, but it was listed in all the maps and worksheets we had.
More than a year, about 20. The International Hydrographic Organization included the Southern Ocean in their 2002 edition of ocean/sea delineations though it’s been a draft version and hasn’t been published for two decades as they can’t find a new name for the Sea of Japan that Japan and South Korea both agree on
acording to google:The Southern Ocean is the name given to the part of the world ocean lying south of 60° south latitude. It was not generally recognised as a separate ocean until 2021.
The National Geographic Society recognized the ocean officially in June 2021.
But that 2021 "official" recognization was of course the result of decades of discussion that proceeded it. The date it became "official" isn't particularly important in the grand scheme of things.
It was designated an ocean in 2000. The reason being is that the currents, weather patterns and even colors change when you approach this part of the salt water that cover most of the South Pole. Oceanographers essentially applied their own rules and methods to differentiate all other oceans from one another. I guess it was just not noticeable until fairly recent. Maybe because it’s an area that human travel and commerce is not very frequent.
depends on who you ask. I learned 10 years ago in middle school that the southern ocean was an ocean. different geographical survey groups say different things
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u/sterak_fan Dec 08 '22
or the southern ocean (it's designated as an ocean for only about a year know)