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We're Going to Europa!

We're Going to Europa!

To Scale: The Solar System

spawnflagger says...

a few (perhaps dumb) observations:


  1. good thing Pluto is no longer a planet
  2. This video would've benefited from being shot in 4K
  3. Was a nice touch to show the orbit of Uranus as a giant fart cloud


Laniakea: Our home supercluster

nanrod says...

Then consider it completely awesome since with the scale and perspective presented there's no way you could differentiate the actual elliptical orbits from perfectly circular orbits. Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus all have an eccentricity of about 5% while Neptune's is less than 1%.

kfunk said:

this was awesome until the circular orbits of our solar system at the end ಠ_ಠ

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How to Pronounce Uranus - C.G.P GREY

How to Pronounce Uranus - C.G.P GREY

How to Pronounce Uranus - C.G.P GREY

MilkmanDan says...

I say, embrace it. Kids will still snicker the first few times they hear the name, but who cares?

That's right kids -- it is planet YER' ANUS. Enjoy your moments of juvenile mirth every time you hear it. YERANUS YERANUS YERANUS.

Perhaps we can mitigate this problem by dumping the kids into a sort of unfortunate name "sensory overload"?:

We are planning to ERECT a PENAL colony on URANUS. The first prisoners can be birds like blue footed BOOBIES and great TITS. Maybe we'll leave some PUSSY cats there to keep the bird population from exploding.

I propose that every 3rd grade science teacher recite the preceding paragraph (adding any more unfortunate words they deem worthy) to their classes every day until the novelty wears off and the kids stop giggling.

Pluto is not a Planet; CGP Grey explains

"Waterworld" planet discovered! (Spacy Talk Post)

jonny says...

Europa has a thick layer of ice, maybe a few or several miles thick, under which is a very deep liquid ocean, but "its bulk density suggests that it is similar in composition to the terrestrial planets, being primarily composed of silicate rock." According to the researchers, "GJ1214b’s radius could be explained by a bulk composition consisting of an ice-rock core surrounded by a H/He/H2O envelope that has a water mass fraction of 50-85%."

GJ1214b is a giant ball of water 2.7 times the Earth's diameter (Uranus is about 4 times, Saturn about 9). The water must be (tens of) thousands of miles deep. There's nothing like it in our system. I can't even begin to imagine what happens to water at that kind of depth and pressure. What bizarre properties it must have. They mention superfluids and hot ice in the article, but I suspect it's even weirder.
>> ^gwiz665:
Isn't Europa actually made almost entirely of ice? Europa the moon around Jupiter, I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_%28moon%29

Cloaked alien ship near mercury

Cloaked alien ship near mercury



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