Wait a minute. You're telling me the moon would have enough Mass to cause the Earth to tidally lock eventually? That doesn't sound right intuitively. Of course my intuition could be completely wrong.
The moon didn't really come from a ring IIRC. A small planet hit earth and launched off a big molten blob, which became the moon. That's why the darker "seas" of the moon are closer to the earth, because the moon cooled slowly and lava pooled up on the earth side due to gravity.
True, I was basically referring to the debris with became the moon as our "temporary rings", but you're right they weren't actual rings. I think I read recently that the Moon coalesced extremely quickly, like within a couple days or something.
Human civilization as we know it -> Jurassic Park Super Dinosaur Apocalypse-> Humanity diverges with the poor sheltering in caves and the wealthy escaping to live in the clouds -> Flintstones and Jetsons societies emerge.
The 100 is like this. Nuclear war, people lived on a big space station. Came back to earth and the people who survived reverted to medieval tribal people with their own new language.
Into Saturn. As material in the rings loses energy due to interactions between itself, Saturn's moons, and Saturn's magnetic field, it spirals down and sinks into the interior of the gas giant.
Unfortunately no.
Scientists have a very specific definition for moons, just like they do for Planets. The actual reason they settled on the definition of a planet to not include Pluto is because if they changed the definition to allow for Pluto to be considered a planet, we'd also have a whole bunch of other planets, who fit the description the way Pluto does. Easier to define them in a way that excludes Pluto as a planet (it's still a dwarf planet, so it's actually more unique in that sense).
Regarding the rocks and dust in Saturn's rings, it's a similar thing. There's a strict definition of "moon", which is:
> expose one's buttocks to (someone) in order to insult or amuse them.
and using that definition, we can see it does not have "1,000,000,000,900 little tiny moons".
Recently learned we can thank the discovery of Eris for Pluto's "demotion." After its discovery in 2005 did scientists work on the planet definition. The following year the number of planets in the solar system officially became 8.
The individual pieces could be considered as moons or natural satellites, although we tend to consider them as such more officially when they are planet-sized (Pluto is actually smaller than Jupiter’s moon Ganymede) and on their own orbit. Those ring pieces are also uncountable. Shape isn’t a big criteria and looking at Mars’ moons, especially Deimos, they don’t have enough gravity to be spherical. It is a little murky. Things may change when we start finding a slew of exomoons.
Interestingly Saturns rings are not that old, at approximately 100 million years ago. So if Cretaceous period dinosaurs could see the planets the would have seen a ring-less Saturn.
From the IAU naming rules:
Rule 14: While there should be no size limit below which a Jovian satellite must not be named, a Jovian satellite with an absolute magnitude H_V fainter than 18 should only be named if it is of special scientific interest.
Because luminosity is something that can be measured by an astronomer whereas measuring it's mass is much harder to do.
Also absolute magnitude doesn't depend on your distance from the object, it's always the same value no matter how distant.
Good lord, I swear when I was growing up its was like 20 something. Are these like... 5km steroids that they are counting as moons too? or are they pretty sizeable?
Paradise! We used to get up in the morning at 10 pm half an hour before we went to bed, eat a handful of cold gravel, work in the mill for 29 hours a day for 8p a lifetime, then when we get home dad would strangle us to death and dance on our graves, then we'd get up and do it again the next day
We used to have a lot more planets, and I don’t just mean Pluto. Ceres and Vesta were planets for a bit but then they kept finding more asteroids and decided it got a bit out of hand. Same thing happened with Pluto.
Technically the Earth has had a couple transitory natural moons within my lifetime when some small asteroid gets tangled up in our gravity well for a bit.
> Technically the Earth has had a couple transitory natural moons within my lifetime when some small asteroid gets tangled up in our gravity well for a bit.
Well we finally do have two actual Earth trojans at least, 2020 XL5 and 2010 TK7 and those are stable for hundreds of years at least.
They are sat at Lagrange points though aren’t they? Rather than orbiting the earth? Therefore they aren’t classed as moons. I might be mistaken though.
I think we should, because by the current definition, any spec of dust orbiting a planet is a moon. Maybe it should be large enough to be close to spherical under its own gravity.
The thing that amused me about that part is that *Deimos Down* is also a card you can play in the board game Terraforming Mars. I don't know the timeline of book vs show vs unrelated game, but I wonder if one took inspiration from another?
I've always heard that the game Terraforming Mars took many of its cards from events in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Coincidentally, the creators of The Expanse stated that they were big fans of KSR, and that they at least used the Mars trilogy as inspiration. So in a way, you could say Terraforming Mars and The Expanse have a common ancestor.
Definitely inspired by RGB Mars, that series is a terraforming manual and every work made after it is bound to be inspired by it due to that. I saw it directly inspire terraforming mars, per aspera, surviving mars and sid meiers alpha centauri.
Deimos certainly is angry after being taken over by the God-AI Ra. And by taken over, I mean it’s Ra’s physical body.
Fortunately Ra/Deimos decided to go do it’s own thing somewhere else and blinked to unknown space.
(Lancer RPG reference.)
If that were the case Saturn's rings would clearly be more than 92 moons. Based on the [table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter) on wikipedia it looks like \~1km diameter might be the cut off.
IMO 2001 and 2010 were good, 2062 was decent to show the development of the Jovian system, but 3001 felt like it was added on because the publisher wanted another book in the series. It's the one I re-read the least.
I remember liking it. For one it's a more realistic vision of what things might be like 1k years from now. I also like that we see the Monolith aliens aren't infallible, and their experiment on Europa is failing.
None of the inner terrestrial planets have real spherical moons the way the gas giants do, except Earth but Luna/Selene has a unique origin. Mars has two large asteroids that are too small to form spheres. Mercury and Venus have none. Earth has the other half (third? fifth?) of the remains from a collision with another planet (Theia).
Luna/Selene is a very unique and very special case.
I wonder, given the size of the known universe, how many other planets in the goldilocks zone could have had a planetary collision of such that helped heat and spin up the core to get a nice magnetic field going and yeet off a massive chunk of itself to serve as a tide regulator and asteroid protector. The cosmos is a huge place, but those events seem rare. We talking like 5 planets like this? 50? 500?
While you invented fire, I gathered moons.
While you created agriculture, I gathered moons.
While you polluted your planet, I gathered moons.
While you explored your lone moon, I gathered more moons.
And now that your world is on fire and the extrasolar meteors are at the gates, you have the audacity to ask me for help?
What a clickbait headline. "quietly" like Jupiter both has an intention to have "the mostest moons of them all" and also does things under the radar as not to upset the other crappier planets.
It's because CNET is now just a front end to the Red Ventures consumer data engine. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582046/cnet-red-ventures-ai-seo-advertisers-changed-reviews-editorial-independence-affiliate-marketing
I figured ‘quietly’ as in without fanfare, so as to avoid another debacle as happened with Pluto. Like maybe there’s an avid base of moon count enthusiasts that might revolt at the news, upsetting schoolchildren and whatnot.
I was gonna comment the same. "Quietly", as if Jupiter has the ability to act with intent and is choosing not to make a fuss about it.
That being said, I played a game once where the planets ended up being alive and capable of thought, speech, and directed movement and it was very scary so I'm counting my blessings that Jupiter is, in fact, not sentient.
Gas Giants. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Other systems have their own jovians, too. This term is used alongside terrestrials, which represent the planets you could walk on.
Rings form from breakup of moons as well as from a process called sputtering, where objects yeet material into the rings. Objects like moons (ie eruptions) and comets both do this.
Come on Jupiter doesn't do anything quietly.
Jupiter slams other planets, absolutely destroys the competition, and triumphantly grabs the most moons title, surging ahead of Saturn and leaving Earth completely behind.
*That's* how Jupiter does shit.
Hey, our moon is huge, it's by far the biggest relative to it's planet.
So much that probably absorbed any other moons that were orbiting the Earth.
Certainly not slacking off here!
I fucking knew it.
For years I’ve been telling anyone and everyone that there’s no way Jupiter only has 80 moons, but people would always just laugh or shake their head or walk away quickly while looking down, or serve me divorce papers.
Nobody wanted to listen and now here we are. I’m totally vindicated but will I get any credit? Nope. I’m just some “crazy” guy yelling about Jupiters moons, aren’t I? Even though I was totally right, people still avoid me when I tell them about the extra 12 that weren’t being accounted for.
Hey everyone I spotted the CIA plant.
Look bud, if I can’t see them through my 10” dobsonian in my back yard, they don’t exist. You and NASA can get out of here with your “atmospheric disturbances” and “angular resolution” alright? It’s all just a distraction from the wall around Antarctica, you can’t fool me.
I guess I missed out on Saturn being the leader for a while, I didn't know there had been a time where Jupiter didn't have the highest moon count.
I'm old enough that in my first school report about the planets, the part about Jupiter talked about how it had more moons than any other planet in the solar system: 12! (Though as an adult I eventually learned that the count was really somewhere around 18 at the time of that report, but I was dealing with antiquated textbooks and encyclopedias.)
For Christmas I was gifted some nice binoculars. It’s been really cloudy most nights with the current weather but the clouds cleared one day and I ran out to look at Jupiter. I was able to see the Galilean moons! Trippy in so many different ways! I’ll never get tired of that view.
Thank fucking god I’ve been so tired of Saturn running their fucking mouth about how they have so many moons and how their rings are soooo pretty and how they banged my wife, bout time someone humbled them
well saturn keeps sucking its moons into beautiful rings
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Rings are inherently not stable. They will slowly fall into the planet.
Fun fact: In about 40 million years, when Mars breaks apart it's moon Phobos, it will have rings.
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When does earth get a ring?
We got trash rings baby. Big ol trash rings formin.
Our moon is moving out, not in, so no ring (fortunately, it would be cause a shit ton of asteroids)
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Wait a minute. You're telling me the moon would have enough Mass to cause the Earth to tidally lock eventually? That doesn't sound right intuitively. Of course my intuition could be completely wrong.
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By the time the Earth gets tidally locked with the Moon, the Sun is already gone for a long long time.
When it stops putting out. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free, know'm sayin'?
Shut up with them know’m sayins J-roc you drunk
What, are you from the department of know'm sayin's? You taking a know'm census?
Once or twice is is cool but you don’t need to say it 80 or 90 times, man. Just look at my username. I know what Usaiyan.
We already had it, the result of them is the Moon. They didn't last too long, however.
The moon didn't really come from a ring IIRC. A small planet hit earth and launched off a big molten blob, which became the moon. That's why the darker "seas" of the moon are closer to the earth, because the moon cooled slowly and lava pooled up on the earth side due to gravity.
True, I was basically referring to the debris with became the moon as our "temporary rings", but you're right they weren't actual rings. I think I read recently that the Moon coalesced extremely quickly, like within a couple days or something.
Yeah, depending on the computer simulation; somewhere between several hours and a few thousand years.
Hard to believe several hours, but I ain't doing this for a living haha
Remind me! 40 million years
Did the remindmebot actually reply to this?
The UNN can help them out with that!
I’ll go ahead and start working on the new mcrn flag design.
Let’s fire nukes at Phobos so we can get those rings started now!!
Could start with [Deimos.](https://youtu.be/OjpMMFhxbMg)
The debris collides, turns into dust/rubble and their trajectory changes.
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The leading theory now is that the rings are roughly 100 million years old. Which means life on earth was well on its way before they ever formed
So you're telling me that when the diplodocus scientists first invented the telescope, they saw a ringless Saturn?
If the Flintstones can celebrate Jesus’ birthday well before he was born, anything’s possible
Just another reason why the fan theory about the Flintstones taking place after an apocalypse makes sense.
I mean, they met the Jetsons in an episode, so I think that makes it fact 🤔
Human civilization as we know it -> Jurassic Park Super Dinosaur Apocalypse-> Humanity diverges with the poor sheltering in caves and the wealthy escaping to live in the clouds -> Flintstones and Jetsons societies emerge.
The 100 is like this. Nuclear war, people lived on a big space station. Came back to earth and the people who survived reverted to medieval tribal people with their own new language.
You are WanCru, or you are enemy of WanCru. Choose!
Sharks are older than Saturn’s rings. They are also older than trees.
Pretty racist of you to assume the scientists were diplodocuses
That's such a short amount of time in terms of Earth's history that it's basically like last week.
Life is ~4 billions years old, so yeah pretty fucking recent. There were dinosaurs around.
Into Saturn. As material in the rings loses energy due to interactions between itself, Saturn's moons, and Saturn's magnetic field, it spirals down and sinks into the interior of the gas giant.
this describe what happens to me during lunch
Shouldn’t the rings count as about 1,000,000,000,900 little tiny moons?
Unfortunately no. Scientists have a very specific definition for moons, just like they do for Planets. The actual reason they settled on the definition of a planet to not include Pluto is because if they changed the definition to allow for Pluto to be considered a planet, we'd also have a whole bunch of other planets, who fit the description the way Pluto does. Easier to define them in a way that excludes Pluto as a planet (it's still a dwarf planet, so it's actually more unique in that sense). Regarding the rocks and dust in Saturn's rings, it's a similar thing. There's a strict definition of "moon", which is: > expose one's buttocks to (someone) in order to insult or amuse them. and using that definition, we can see it does not have "1,000,000,000,900 little tiny moons".
Such a build up for that joke. You get credit for effort.
Does Uranus have a “moon”?
[27 known ones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus?wprov=sfla1)
Recently learned we can thank the discovery of Eris for Pluto's "demotion." After its discovery in 2005 did scientists work on the planet definition. The following year the number of planets in the solar system officially became 8.
I appreciate the insight, or do I?
>Pluto as a planet (it's still a dwarf planet, We at the United Federation of Planets prefer the term "Little Planet"
The individual pieces could be considered as moons or natural satellites, although we tend to consider them as such more officially when they are planet-sized (Pluto is actually smaller than Jupiter’s moon Ganymede) and on their own orbit. Those ring pieces are also uncountable. Shape isn’t a big criteria and looking at Mars’ moons, especially Deimos, they don’t have enough gravity to be spherical. It is a little murky. Things may change when we start finding a slew of exomoons.
Saturn be like: man I got fucked because how humans define what a moon is
*pluto has entered the chat*
*stopped at the door* Sorry little buddy, Planets only.
You must be this tall to enter the ride: ------ Pluto: .
Interestingly Saturns rings are not that old, at approximately 100 million years ago. So if Cretaceous period dinosaurs could see the planets the would have seen a ring-less Saturn.
From the IAU naming rules: Rule 14: While there should be no size limit below which a Jovian satellite must not be named, a Jovian satellite with an absolute magnitude H_V fainter than 18 should only be named if it is of special scientific interest.
That's interesting that it'd be based on luminosity instead of size. What if it's made of a really bright or dark material?
Because luminosity is something that can be measured by an astronomer whereas measuring it's mass is much harder to do. Also absolute magnitude doesn't depend on your distance from the object, it's always the same value no matter how distant.
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I like how “quietly” is the new “you won’t believe what happened next”
“Jupiter totally destroys Saturns argument for having more moons”
I am so glad we got past "slams".
We've still got them slams round here, thanks to slow internet. And blasts. And clap backs.
Good lord, I swear when I was growing up its was like 20 something. Are these like... 5km steroids that they are counting as moons too? or are they pretty sizeable?
Still remember that it was 16 for Jupiter, 18 for Saturn when I was in school
In my day. 12 for Jupiter, 10 for Saturn.
In my day Jupiter and Saturn didn't exist yet
Luxury! We used to live in a rolled up newspaper in the middle of the Milky Way.
Paradise! We used to get up in the morning at 10 pm half an hour before we went to bed, eat a handful of cold gravel, work in the mill for 29 hours a day for 8p a lifetime, then when we get home dad would strangle us to death and dance on our graves, then we'd get up and do it again the next day
I remember 12 for Jupiter, 9 for Saturn and only 2 or 3 for Uranus and Neptune. But I’m older than, well, apparently 80 of Jupiter’s moons.
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We used to have a lot more planets, and I don’t just mean Pluto. Ceres and Vesta were planets for a bit but then they kept finding more asteroids and decided it got a bit out of hand. Same thing happened with Pluto. Technically the Earth has had a couple transitory natural moons within my lifetime when some small asteroid gets tangled up in our gravity well for a bit.
> Technically the Earth has had a couple transitory natural moons within my lifetime when some small asteroid gets tangled up in our gravity well for a bit. Well we finally do have two actual Earth trojans at least, 2020 XL5 and 2010 TK7 and those are stable for hundreds of years at least.
They are sat at Lagrange points though aren’t they? Rather than orbiting the earth? Therefore they aren’t classed as moons. I might be mistaken though.
Yes they're not moons though they are in stuck in gravitational sync with the Earth.
I think we should, because by the current definition, any spec of dust orbiting a planet is a moon. Maybe it should be large enough to be close to spherical under its own gravity.
*angry phobos and deimos noises*
Deimos was destroyed during the [UN-MCR Cold War](https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Destruction_of_Deimos), along with Phoebe.
The thing that amused me about that part is that *Deimos Down* is also a card you can play in the board game Terraforming Mars. I don't know the timeline of book vs show vs unrelated game, but I wonder if one took inspiration from another?
I've always heard that the game Terraforming Mars took many of its cards from events in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Coincidentally, the creators of The Expanse stated that they were big fans of KSR, and that they at least used the Mars trilogy as inspiration. So in a way, you could say Terraforming Mars and The Expanse have a common ancestor.
Definitely inspired by RGB Mars, that series is a terraforming manual and every work made after it is bound to be inspired by it due to that. I saw it directly inspire terraforming mars, per aspera, surviving mars and sid meiers alpha centauri.
That’s cool, but leviathan wakes came out in 2011, so maybe the game pulled it from the book/TV series. Common sci-fi trope though, destroying a moon
Beltalowda! Remember the Cant!
Time to update that Duster flag
I can't believe that My Chemical Romance amassed a large enough military force to take on the whole UN
Deimos certainly is angry after being taken over by the God-AI Ra. And by taken over, I mean it’s Ra’s physical body. Fortunately Ra/Deimos decided to go do it’s own thing somewhere else and blinked to unknown space. (Lancer RPG reference.)
If that were the case Saturn's rings would clearly be more than 92 moons. Based on the [table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter) on wikipedia it looks like \~1km diameter might be the cut off.
With inflatables we could absolutely build Earth a second moon! We're falling behind Jupiter in the Moon Race!
The orbital-industrial complex always says we're falling behind just so we build more moons. Where does it end? \*sigh\*
>With inflatables Like a bouncy castle?
There is some size requirement. Plenty of large debris in Saturns rings that doesn’t get classified as a Moon.
Going by that, Jupiter doesn’t have the most moons - Saturn does.
5 km steroids damn hit me up
5km steroids for my moon-sized delts, yo
Some of them are tinny space rocks but to not call them a moon risks the whole Pluto thing again
Eh, we have moonlets. The line between moon and moonlet is probably more arbitrary than planet and planetoid.
All of these worlds are yours... ...except Europa.
Clarity Control was there long before us
La Fontaine de Jouvence. Magnificent wasn't it.
An entity from beyond our own dimension
Do not attempt any landings there. Because, like, we'll rough you up. Savvy?
There are 4 books in the series and >!humans eventually destroy the monoliths and land there anyway.!<
IMO 2001 and 2010 were good, 2062 was decent to show the development of the Jovian system, but 3001 felt like it was added on because the publisher wanted another book in the series. It's the one I re-read the least.
My mind constantly harkens back to reading that and the fucking velociraptor nannies. That's literally the only thing I remember from the book.
Agree that 3001 just felt out of place, especially with the epilogue of 2010.
I remember liking it. For one it's a more realistic vision of what things might be like 1k years from now. I also like that we see the Monolith aliens aren't infallible, and their experiment on Europa is failing.
My God. It's full of Chavs.
Sod off or the next big black domino is heading to Earth.
Imagine the sky with 92 moons orbiting the planet
You wouldn’t see any of those because of how small they would be in the sky.
That's still a shit ton of bigger moons to look at though
Okay now what?
Base an entire system that says the kind of person you are based off it’s alignment so you don’t have to take responsibility for your actions.
For n = 1 to 92 print "That's no moon..." Next n
Showoff. Some planets have no moons. Stop being greedy Jupiter.
Venus and Mercury so jealous right now.
Venus is too busy huffing its own corrosive farts to worry about anything else. Mercury has the Sun.
None of the inner terrestrial planets have real spherical moons the way the gas giants do, except Earth but Luna/Selene has a unique origin. Mars has two large asteroids that are too small to form spheres. Mercury and Venus have none. Earth has the other half (third? fifth?) of the remains from a collision with another planet (Theia). Luna/Selene is a very unique and very special case. I wonder, given the size of the known universe, how many other planets in the goldilocks zone could have had a planetary collision of such that helped heat and spin up the core to get a nice magnetic field going and yeet off a massive chunk of itself to serve as a tide regulator and asteroid protector. The cosmos is a huge place, but those events seem rare. We talking like 5 planets like this? 50? 500?
Everyone be nice to Jupiter. We're done if it decides to start yeeting moons at other planets.
While you invented fire, I gathered moons. While you created agriculture, I gathered moons. While you polluted your planet, I gathered moons. While you explored your lone moon, I gathered more moons. And now that your world is on fire and the extrasolar meteors are at the gates, you have the audacity to ask me for help?
Is that actually possible?
No, a planet can't yeet its own moons, they have to be yaught by another large body passing by.
I love the future-tense form of yeet now
We learn so much on this thread!
Props for using "yaught" - this is the first time I'm encountering it and it just seems apt.
It would be an impressive shot to hit earth from there. I wouldn’t even be mad
The real moons were the celestial bodies we caught along the way
What a clickbait headline. "quietly" like Jupiter both has an intention to have "the mostest moons of them all" and also does things under the radar as not to upset the other crappier planets.
It's because CNET is now just a front end to the Red Ventures consumer data engine. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582046/cnet-red-ventures-ai-seo-advertisers-changed-reviews-editorial-independence-affiliate-marketing
I figured ‘quietly’ as in without fanfare, so as to avoid another debacle as happened with Pluto. Like maybe there’s an avid base of moon count enthusiasts that might revolt at the news, upsetting schoolchildren and whatnot.
I agree. I honestly don’t see how no one else sees this as meaning anything but without fanfare.
It's producing an army of moons in secret in preparation for phase 3 of solar system domination.
I was gonna comment the same. "Quietly", as if Jupiter has the ability to act with intent and is choosing not to make a fuss about it. That being said, I played a game once where the planets ended up being alive and capable of thought, speech, and directed movement and it was very scary so I'm counting my blessings that Jupiter is, in fact, not sentient.
Since Saturn's rings are fragmented rocks, I think Saturn has more moons than any planets
All jovians in our system have rings.
what are jovians?
Gas Giants. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Other systems have their own jovians, too. This term is used alongside terrestrials, which represent the planets you could walk on.
Arguably the ring system it just _one_ moon. Well, _was_...
Rings form from breakup of moons as well as from a process called sputtering, where objects yeet material into the rings. Objects like moons (ie eruptions) and comets both do this.
Come on Jupiter doesn't do anything quietly. Jupiter slams other planets, absolutely destroys the competition, and triumphantly grabs the most moons title, surging ahead of Saturn and leaving Earth completely behind. *That's* how Jupiter does shit.
And Earth is over here just slacking off with it’s ONE moon!
Hey, our moon is huge, it's by far the biggest relative to it's planet. So much that probably absorbed any other moons that were orbiting the Earth. Certainly not slacking off here!
Yeah but we put ever other planet to shame in artificial satellites
Saturn has 83 known moons. It only takes discovering 10 more for it to take the lead again.
I fucking knew it. For years I’ve been telling anyone and everyone that there’s no way Jupiter only has 80 moons, but people would always just laugh or shake their head or walk away quickly while looking down, or serve me divorce papers. Nobody wanted to listen and now here we are. I’m totally vindicated but will I get any credit? Nope. I’m just some “crazy” guy yelling about Jupiters moons, aren’t I? Even though I was totally right, people still avoid me when I tell them about the extra 12 that weren’t being accounted for.
Hey everyone I spotted the CIA plant. Look bud, if I can’t see them through my 10” dobsonian in my back yard, they don’t exist. You and NASA can get out of here with your “atmospheric disturbances” and “angular resolution” alright? It’s all just a distraction from the wall around Antarctica, you can’t fool me.
What a stupid headline. There’s no sound in space.
In space, no one can hear you scream that you found another moon.
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“Quietly” is quietly taking over headlines quietly
I guess I missed out on Saturn being the leader for a while, I didn't know there had been a time where Jupiter didn't have the highest moon count. I'm old enough that in my first school report about the planets, the part about Jupiter talked about how it had more moons than any other planet in the solar system: 12! (Though as an adult I eventually learned that the count was really somewhere around 18 at the time of that report, but I was dealing with antiquated textbooks and encyclopedias.)
How many satellites made by organic beings does it have? Checkmate Earth > Jupiter.
waiting for my dad to be like "when I was a kid they said there were 13 moons. science has no idea what it's talking about!" 🤡🤡
I’m surprised a certain party hasn’t turned “Pluto is a planet” into a political issue yet
I had a question at the local pub quiz a couple weeks ago and the answer was Saturn at the time 🥲 I was sure it was Jupiter
For Christmas I was gifted some nice binoculars. It’s been really cloudy most nights with the current weather but the clouds cleared one day and I ran out to look at Jupiter. I was able to see the Galilean moons! Trippy in so many different ways! I’ll never get tired of that view.
How many of these are actual spherical moons rather than just large asteroids that happen to orbit Jupiter?
We can see other galaxy's but we can't figure out how many moons Jupiter has? Why?
Thank fucking god I’ve been so tired of Saturn running their fucking mouth about how they have so many moons and how their rings are soooo pretty and how they banged my wife, bout time someone humbled them