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7 bizarre facts about the Solar System to stump any scientist...From the coldest planets to spacecraft that have exited the Solar System, these little-known facts stump even many professional astronomers.
Big Think ^
| June 17, 2024
| Ethan Siegel
Posted on 06/17/2024 10:46:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay
Can you answer all 7?....................
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posted on
06/17/2024 10:46:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay
Can you answer all 7?....................
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posted on
06/17/2024 10:46:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Wow!
You are giving us an astrophysics exam with 14 questions...
I’m hoping it gets graded on a curve...
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posted on
06/17/2024 10:56:32 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/17/2024 11:00:38 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Red Badger
This is heavy science, Man! like, Plutonium Grade heavy!
Paraphrasing a book title from the late
Donald Rumsfeld: “There are Unknown unknowns!”
To: SuperLuminal
Yes, a parabolic curve.....................
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posted on
06/17/2024 11:03:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I can answer them, but I won’t get all of them right. :^)
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posted on
06/17/2024 11:09:24 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Red Badger
If Vulcan doesn’t exist, that means Spock isn’t real.
To: Verginius Rufus
If Spock isn’t real, then Spock-Paper-Scissors isn’t real, either............
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posted on
06/17/2024 11:16:01 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
It may be as simple as this!
To: Red Badger
Definitely racist... As I remember graduate school in the 1960s, grades above a “parabolic” grade-curve minimum would be populated with Orientals, whereas the curve below the minimum would be the rest of us...
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posted on
06/17/2024 11:45:41 AM PDT
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SuperLuminal
( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
How many solar systems in the universe have a planet named Uranus?
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posted on
06/17/2024 12:13:38 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Borders, language and culture. Michael Savage)
To: Red Badger
Diagram of Ganymede's interior with labeled layers including saltwater oceanhow do they know the ocean is saltwater?
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posted on
06/17/2024 12:13:43 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
To: smokingfrog
After a couple billion years it can’t be ‘fresh’...............
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posted on
06/17/2024 12:17:34 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Have you heard of Dr. Jason Lisle of Biblical Science Institute https://biblicalscienceinstitute.com ? He can answer a lot of your astronomy questions. He even predicted what the James Webb telescope would see before it sent back data. He is a creationist which is why he is not held in high regard within the scientific community even though he has been proven right about a lot of things.
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posted on
06/17/2024 12:22:07 PM PDT
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salmon76
(…"we have obtained dirt on Hillary Cli…" (Babylon Bee))
To: salmon76
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posted on
06/17/2024 12:33:30 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
It’s speculative…
Ganymede now joins Jupiter's Europa and two moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, as moons with subsurface oceans—and good places to look for life. Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may also have a subsurface ocean. The new results come from Hubble's observations of Ganymede's magnetic field, which produces two auroral belts (pictured) that can be detected in the ultraviolet. Because of interactions with Jupiter's own magnetic field, these belts rock back and forth. However, there is a third magnetic field in the mix—one emanating from the electrically conductive, saltwater ocean and induced by Jupiter's field—that counterbalances Jupiter's field and reduces the rocking of the auroral belts. The Hubble study suggests that the ocean can be no deeper than 330 kilometers below the surface.
https://www.science.org/content/article/huge-ocean-confirmed-underneath-solar-system-s-largest-moon
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posted on
06/17/2024 2:06:37 PM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
To: Red Badger
I’ve watched a few videos lately on YouTube and the distances are just staggering. Even if we could travel at the speed of light, it’s still not nearly fast enough to be of much use.
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posted on
06/17/2024 2:18:07 PM PDT
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libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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