Semjeza

Other guy did a good job on the main points, but I’ll add something I saw in a study on a kind of bird in the US:

The birds realised cigarette butts had an antibacterial effect, and made efforts to collect and use cigarette butts in their nest building for eggs and chicks.

Learning and making use of novel materials.

Misread the cost as 1G at first and was all:“look how they crept my sc’ooze!”.

But false alarm, not bad though. 1G over G on the activation is kinda a big issue though. But popping out a whole new body makes it worth it I suppose.

You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.

But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.

The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.

Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.

Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.

I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget) too.

So there’s no version of the solar system where there’s only 9 planets. It’s 11+ lads.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 24th 2026 (Medium), in 05:02
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I often forget to flip innocent/criminal when clicking when you do it with the clue, so feeling pretty chuffed to have gotten the perfect solve.

Being doing them for getting on for 2 months now. One of my favourite daily puzzles at the mo.