Navigating Uncertainty https://marketoonist.com/2025/03/navigating-uncertainty.html
Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne - Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne. Marketing cartoons, content marketing with a sense of humor, keynote speaking. · Navigating Uncertainty cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom FishburneAlmost exactly five years ago, in early March 2020, I drew a cartoon that captured some of how I felt in that moment of uncertainty. It showed a group of of people in a meeting and one holding up a coin: “We need to update the forecast. Heads, this will blow over soon. Tails, it’s
Someone shared a meme with me on Signal, and it felt like a personal jab.
![XKCD comic #3063 "Planet Definitions" https://xkcd.com/3063/
explanation from ExplainXKCD https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3063:_Planet_Definitions
transcript truncated to fit alt-text limit:
[A table with 3 columns, labelled "Definition", "# of planets", and "Solar system". The last row is a drawing of the Solar system, with elements included in the definition of the row colored in green]
Traditionalist: Pluto is a planet
Modern: Pluto is not a planet
Expansive: Dwarf planets are planets
Ultratraditionalist: Only the classical planets are planets
Condescending: Only giant planets are planets; the rest are big asteroids.
Simplistic: Anything gravitationally round is a planet
Grounded: Only objects a spaceship has landed on are planets
Regolithic: Anything covered in dirt and ice and stuff is a planet
Lunar: You can't be a planet if you don't have a moon
Solipsitic: Earth is the only planet
Judgemental: Only the prettiest ones are planets
Empiricist: Only worlds that I, author of this table, have personally seen are planets
Marine biologist: Only objects with oceans are planets
Maritime: Only objects with surface oceans are planets
Universalist: They're all planets
Existantialist: What is space itself is a planet???
Spiteful: Only Pluto is a planet
title/mouseover text: Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.](https://cdn.masto.host/spaceyspace/media_attachments/files/114/162/831/647/915/361/original/7ed60693432fd815.png "XKCD comic #3063 \"Planet Definitions\" https://xkcd.com/3063/
explanation from ExplainXKCD https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3063:_Planet_Definitions
transcript truncated to fit alt-text limit:
[A table with 3 columns, labelled \"Definition\", \"# of planets\", and \"Solar system\". The last row is a drawing of the Solar system, with elements included in the definition of the row colored in green]
Traditionalist: Pluto is a planet
Modern: Pluto is not a planet
Expansive: Dwarf planets are planets
Ultratraditionalist: Only the classical planets are planets
Condescending: Only giant planets are planets; the rest are big asteroids.
Simplistic: Anything gravitationally round is a planet
Grounded: Only objects a spaceship has landed on are planets
Regolithic: Anything covered in dirt and ice and stuff is a planet
Lunar: You can't be a planet if you don't have a moon
Solipsitic: Earth is the only planet
Judgemental: Only the prettiest ones are planets
Empiricist: Only worlds that I, author of this table, have personally seen are planets
Marine biologist: Only objects with oceans are planets
Maritime: Only objects with surface oceans are planets
Universalist: They're all planets
Existantialist: What is space itself is a planet???
Spiteful: Only Pluto is a planet
title/mouseover text: Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.")
