I would've thought Uranus would be deeper...
Please don't do this here.
Jupiter is deep
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#52I 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.
Please post a 'Show HN' if you ever do! I'd love to see the process and results and maybe even buy one! What an amazing piece of art it would be.
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#53Isn't it pointless to ask why a chaotic turbulent system ended up this particular way? The author keeps repeating this question (or stating "nobody knows"), as if there's some fundamental and interesting answer to it.
I'm not sure if you're playing with words here, but asking questions like these is the most natural way to discover more about physics itself. Of course studying Jupyter is not as fundamental as studying particle physics or string theory, but it's an emergent physics that nobody has fully explored yet.
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#54One 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…
I'm pretty sure the ancient Chinese could see the colors of at least some of the planets. You don't need a telescope to tell that one celestial object looks redder than another, especially if you have good eyesight and no light pollution.
Venus is indeed golden; Jupiter is red-brown like some type of wood; Saturn looks like it's covered in sand (土 can mean dirt as well as rock, and there's a lot of yellow dirt in China); Mars is unmistakably red; and Mercury looks plain white so why not assign it to the only remaining element. Four correct guesses out of five = probably not a coincidence.
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#55Jupiter 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…
It might not exactly answer your question, but you may enjoy this description of what it would be like to fall into Jupiter: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5041
Thanks, that link is fantastic, informative and entertaining at the same time.
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#56> There's a single Southern Polar Cyclone (the SPC in this case), but only five cyclones around it! They're bigger too, and are different sizes, ranging from 5,600 to 7,000 km across. Again, it's not clear why the poles are different. The fact that there are fewer in the south and they're bigger may be related (I'm guessing, but if you have fewer they can grow to fill more space … ?), but no one really knows.
Maybe because the main cyclone escaped the South pole and now known as Big Red Spot?
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#57At least is a twisted planet, that's for sure.
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#58Sometimes 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.
Assuming the existance of something like early human hunter-gatherers, if the earth were the size of Jupiter, we would not have transitioned to living in cities yet. There would be no downloading.
Why not? Why does a bigger planet mean slower progress?
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#59Sometimes 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.
I wonder if it would be possible for such a planet to exist and be habitable. Obviously it would have to be far less dense than Earth (or Jupiter); I'm guessing gravity would therefore compact it to a smaller size, unless maybe it was made out of some kind of lattice structure? Better question might be what's the largest feasible (or likely) potentially habitable planet with earth-like gravity.
That's an interesting question. I'm sure it's been considered in science-fiction before. But as I think about I keep thinking about a hollow planet, and then I think about a Dyson sphere. Does that count as a planet?
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#60Really interesting content but this site has one of the most aggressive, unpredictable and annoying slide-down headers I've ever seen. Displaying written content on the web should be so simple, yet all the content producers have invented their own special blend of ways to fuck it up. Slide-down headers. Share links widgets that overlap content. Video plays without asking and follows you down the page. Entire page lag…
FYI I think you got down voted due to the phrase "f--- it up". HN is generally open to criticism of things like that but tends to prefer a more non-confrontational tone.