• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        naw. they just stopped naming the children after the first couple rounds of olympians.

        why name them when there’s a few hundred a month? breed like rabbits, Olympians. probably out of boredom.

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          5 months ago

          I know that Olympians fuck like rabbits, but they only meet up once every four years. Can’t be that massive of a population increase.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            You really think Zeus is gonna have that long of a dry spell? Never mind Aphrodite or Dionysus?

            I bet Hera is a closet freak, too. (Zeus just doesn’t like the whips.)

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              5 months ago

              From what I can tell, they’ve all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven’t seen those guys around in a long time.

          • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            Assuming they started off as two of them 2000 years ago and Fibonacci was right about rabbit breeding habits (and Olympians mature in 4 years time and don’t menopause before the age of 2000). We’d have 139423224561697880139724382870407283950070256587697307264108962948325571622863290691557658876222521294125 (500th element of the Fibonacci sequence (2000 years / 4 years = 500 Olympian breeding seasons). There’d be plenty of them to name planets after.

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      5 months ago

      There are approximately two metric shit tons of planets. I assume scientists have better things to do with their time than to sit around and think of names to give to every single one of those.

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        5 months ago

        I just assumed all the ones we would actually hear about would get named more regularly. But I guess if they’re talking about a specific one, this would happen. I never really thought about how many must really be out there, but now it seems obvious.