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It always surprises me how millions of planets can move about predictably for millions of years. Unless it's hit with some gigantic rock... or it gets infected
by muzani 1y ago
It always surprises me how millions of planets can move about predictably for millions of years. Unless it's hit with some gigantic rock... or it gets infected with sentient life.
- riku_iki 1y agoits survival bias, they were moving billions of years before, objects with unstable orbits traveled somewhere else, and stable objects formed stable planets.
- positus 1y agoHumanity is not an infection. And how many of those millions of planets can you name?
- AIPedant 1y agoI would not draw that conclusion from this article - we don't have such fine-grained data from other planets, perhaps their axes are more wobbly than Earth's. E.g it was only in 2020 that we discovered Mars has a "Chandler wobble" similar to Earth's (which was discovered 150 years earlier). But Mars's wobble is quite different as a matter of geophysics, Earth's Chandler wobble is mostly sustained by ocean sloshing. There's a whole lot we don't know about the non-Earth planets. I will add that human extraction of groundwater it not nearly as impactful as the formation of large igneous provinces and other ancient supervolcanoes. A tectonically active planet will definitely wobble unpredictably.
- PartiallyTyped 1y agoWe also found that our dams have slowed earth’s rotation!
- furyofantares 1y ago> or it gets infected with sentient life. If only more planets could be so lucky. What value does a planet have without sentient life there to enjoy it?
- ForOldHack 1y agoSentient life: [ ] Venus [v] Earth [ ] Mars [ ] Uranus Value: [ ] Venus [v] Earth [ ] Mars [ ] Uranus None? I disagree, we should go back to arguing about sentient life on earth.
- ribcage 1y ago[dead]