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Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by matte_black »

new299 wrote: post #29
matte_black wrote: post #27

Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now. It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.

Latency would be higher, and might make phone calls a little awkward perhaps?, but it shouldn't make any longer to download a file. You might want to modify protocols so they send acknowledgements less often, or use larger packets perhaps.

Ah yea, I guess you’re right. With a small planet it’s something I never have to think much about since things always seem fast enough.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by josu »

matte_black wrote: post #27

Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now. It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.

>And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.

Space travel would probably be more advanced by now.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by aaron695 »

matte_black wrote: post #27

Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now. It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.

This is Cunningham's Law's at it's best.

Jupiter/Circumference 439,264 km Earth is 40,075 km

It's only 10 times different.

Streaming would be pretty much the same, 10 times the lag would cause some issues but not much really.

Travel is more interesting.

Earth is around one day flying to anywhere. So 10 days.

This assumes the airline industry can support enough hubs, the population would be much thinner.

And here it gets confusing since would people all just live where it's warm around the equator since there's so much room and resources? What's a day here? Would airships be more popular cause the winds up top I'd assume would be blowing pretty fast.

Would airlines be more expensive per kilometer. Since the population is sparse and 10 times as far between major interesting places maybe it's not as viable. Would you spend 10 days going to London knowing it's still a days flight to Paris.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by bwang29 »

One thing that might not be related but I found fascinating is that Jupiter is “木星” in Chinese, where “木” means wooden. The first time “木星” was mentioned in Chinese literature was in 东汉, year 25 - year 220 (around 1800 years ago). So Chinese people back then thought the planet was made of wood! And as a child, this planet has the name easiest to remember, because it looks exactly like a wooden ball.

Edit: I digged deeper and found that it was a coincidence that Jupiter was called the Wooden Planet. The Chinese assigned the name not because they were able to observe the wood like texture (due to the lack of telescope), but they were able to observe the existence of the planet with naked eye as early as 2300 years ago, along with the Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. These five planets were assigned to the name in the order of "金 gold (Venus)","木 wood (Jupiter)","水 water (Mercury)","火 fire (Mars)"."土 rock (Saturn)" superstitiously. What's really surprising is Venus does look like gold in color and Saturn does look like wood in color. What a coincidence!

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by mbell »

pure_ambition wrote: post #15

Jupiter is so cool. Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s. Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets. Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (th…

> Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s.

It's also shrinking at an increasing rate and may be gone within a couple decades.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by mnemotronic »

I do glassblowing as a hobby. I'd like to replicate some of the patterns in those pics in glass. Might have to deviate from the color spectrum in the pictures. The reds I use are nowhere near as intense.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by lopmotr »

bwang29 wrote: post #34

One thing that might not be related but I found fascinating is that Jupiter is “木星” in Chinese, where “木” means wooden. The first time “木星” was mentioned in Chinese literature was in 东汉, year 25 - year 220 (around 1800 years ago). So Chinese people back then thought the planet was made of wood! And as a child, this planet has the name easiest to remember, because it looks exactly like a wooden ball. Edit: I digged de…

Not an interesting coincidence. Jupiter is hot but Mars gets named fire. Mercury looks like rock (thin atmosphere) but Saturn get called rock. You could find some reason to make almost any naming seem like a coincidence.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by Godel_unicode »

craftyguy wrote: post #25
pwaivers wrote: post #5

The renderings are amazing looking! It makes Jupiter looks like an evil planet.

Those aren't renderings, they are composite images made from photographs taken of Jupiter using an infrared camera on the Juno spacecraft.

What word would you use for composite false-color images produced by a computer if not "renderings"?

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by gisely »

lopmotr wrote: post #38
bwang29 wrote: post #34

One thing that might not be related but I found fascinating is that Jupiter is “木星” in Chinese, where “木” means wooden. The first time “木星” was mentioned in Chinese literature was in 东汉, year 25 - year 220 (around 1800 years ago). So Chinese people back then thought the planet was made of wood! And as a child, this planet has the name easiest to remember, because it looks exactly like a wooden ball. Edit: I digged de…

Not an interesting coincidence. Jupiter is hot but Mars gets named fire. Mercury looks like rock (thin atmosphere) but Saturn get called rock. You could find some reason to make almost any naming seem like a coincidence.

Not interesting to who? Coincidences can interesting even if they don't point to a causal relationship. I find it interesting that word for Jupiter in Chinese is wood simply because it's an interesting association to make.
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