A new planet in a distant orbit, you say?
In before the signal is older than the universe itself.The downvotes are not getting the reference smh.
Science compels us to blow up the sun!
Back in my day it was called Planet X, god dammit!
Because back in my (our) day Pluto was number, so Planet X worked. Planet VIIII doesn’t look as good.
Uh, you mean “IX”?
Yes, Ix, let’s start naming these planets like its classic SciFi.
That means “Boy who is not able to satisfactorily explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven”. I don’t see how that applies here.
Fair
VIIII is a valid way to write 9, though antiquated. If you look at very old clocks, you’ll see they all use this notation.
Didn’t realize homie was an antiquated clock. (Assumed the usage of Roman numerals, like in the references being made, in which case I don’t believe the clumsy VIIII only used on old clocks would really be valid.)
The reason clocks use it, is to not make it look visually unbalanced. Most often they write 4 as IIII. I find it infuriating to break such a simple rule though.
But also, I’ve never ever seen VIIII.
Julius Caesar’s memoir of war in Gaul makes use of VIIII, for instance. You’re right that it’s much rarer, but was still used contemporarily and in modern times.
I find it amusing that we can prove the existence of black holes thousands of light years away and glean the state of the universe at its earliest moments, but we can’t decide whether there’s a rock big enough to count as a planet floating around the inside rim of the Oort Cloud.
