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So there's little water on Saturn! but wait, since Saturn is about 300 times the size of earth, and Earth's mass is just 1/4000th water, I'm still utterly confu
by ASalazarMX 9y ago
So there's little water on Saturn! but wait, since Saturn is about 300 times the size of earth, and Earth's mass is just 1/4000th water, I'm still utterly confused as how much it is compared to us.
Odd choice, indeed.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoSaturn is big! And it looks blue! Must be a lot!
- dclowd9901 9y agoSaturn looks blue? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00400 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00400
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoOops, I was thinking of Uranus! What hope!
- lostmsu 9y agoMaybe Neptune? Would make more sense.
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoProbably thinking Earth
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoYes, that’s the one! I don’t know, Outer Planets all look the same to me.
- lostmsu 9y agoOh, c'mon, they are named after specific Gods after all.
- sidcool 9y agoSilly, but this always cracks me up.
- pluma 9y agoWhat blows my mind is that Saturn in that image looks almost exactly like it does in the intro to Star Trek The Next Generation, which I always chalked up as bad CGI.
- dclowd9901 9y agoTry seeing it through a powerful eyepiece telescope. It’s absolutely one of the most astonishing experiences I’ve ever had.
- rbanffy 9y agoConsider this image is from Voyager. Cassini captured much higher resolution ones.
- pluma 9y agoHigher res maybe, but it still looks amazingly fake: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur-images https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur... I guess what's messing with me is that it just looks so smooth, which life-long exposure to CGI has taught me to mean that it's fake. This reminds me of what Elon Musk said about his Tesla in space: you can tell it's real because it looks so fake.