• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    I can’t reasonably glean that, because the OP clearly says this:

    It is so massive that both Jupiter & Sun orbit around a common point that lies outside the Sun known as the “barycenter”.

    I agree that OP is facebook-tier but your reply is reddit-tier :P

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      9 hours ago

      You’re being pedantic to levels most redditors could only dream of. A barycenter isn’t even necessarily outside the 2 objects, if you took the OP to mean that, it’s incorrect information anyways.

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        2 hours ago

        The OP does not claim that all barycenters are outside of the sun. OP correctly claims that Jupiter & Sun orbit a certain point, and that point is known as the “barycenter,” and that point is outside the sun. I’ll admit they could have gone further to convey the additional curiosity that for other planets the sun-planet barycenter is within the sun, but then it might not be facebook-tier anymore.

        I literally do not understand why you think I’m being pedantic here. The OP text is short and contains no obvious errors that I can see. Perhaps to someone who has made a mistake and doesn’t want to admit it, attempts by others to point out this mistake must resemble pedanticism.