Influencers

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• zedgeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why isn’t the most influential planet Jupiter? That’s the obvious answer. Saturn maybe second. Their gravity wells did more than any other planet to influence the other planets in the system…

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And wtf is Neptune doing in second place.

    Pluto and the Kuiper belt.

    Note that Saturn is relatively close to Jupiter, while Neptune is far from any other large planets. So while it is smaller, it dominates a much larger part of the solar system.

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  • Findus_Falke@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah you’re right. From top to bottom it should be Jupiter - Saturn - (whatever Planet(s) was/were there before there was the Asteroid Belt)

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    • Findus_Falke@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Addendum: I just found out about orbital resonance and my mind is blown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance

      Also, the “lost planet(s)” i mentioned was a theory I liked as a kid. I know actual science suggests it is a cloud of material that was never even able to form a planet mainly because of Jupiters gravitational influence. But I still like it as a fantasy story.

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was trying to look up what moon this was. Titan ? Mimas ? anyway, I opened the Wikipedia page for the moons of Saturn, and that was the last anyone saw of me.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn

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  • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you telling me venus doesn’t look like a cheesy pizza?

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    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, I’ve had worse looking cheese pizzas

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. People think of Mars as particularly incluencial in the formation of the solar system?.. But they should of venus instead?

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Venus has CO2 air at 50km at same pressure as earth and has good protection from radiation. You could make tons of blimps, heat them up with solar energy to float make a small science colony.

    Downside is that it’s very weight limited because landing on a surface full of sulfuric acid is hard. The challenges are still there and Venus has it’s challenges but you could have people running around with oxygen tanks instead of space suits.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How is this relevant to the formation of the solar system?

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why are none of your posts loading for me other than the pika one‽

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Try viewing via mander when that happens!

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