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Whoops! Lester Holt Says Jupiter Only 415 Miles From Earth
New York Post ^ | April 7, 2017 | Emily Smith

Posted on 04/07/2017 3:55:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Lester Holt announced that Jupiter is now 415 miles from Earth on Thursday’s “NBC Nightly News” and Twitter users went into another stratosphere.

Aimee Sanders Gross tweeted, “Lester Holt just said Jupiter is now 415 miles away from Earth. Husband wonders if Southwest will have a $59 airfare?”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; TV/Movies; Travel
KEYWORDS: astronomy; cnbc; emilysmith; flatearth; flatearthers; flatearthmoron; lesterholt; modernjournalism; msnbc; nbc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; nobrainscollectively; science; stupidpeople; whotfcares
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To: nickcarraway

Has Lester reported on the danger of Guam capsizing if too many people inhabit it? It’s a big problem! He should do a tour of all 57 states reporting fake news from each one.....


61 posted on 04/07/2017 5:36:33 PM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: nickcarraway

The radiation in the vicinity of Jupiter is around 1,000,000 rad. We’d all be getting a nice tan.


62 posted on 04/07/2017 5:43:45 PM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: TigersEye
Keep it up.

I'll make you sadder'n you know...


63 posted on 04/07/2017 5:47:07 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Jupiter is over 11 times bigger than Earth"

You're only out a factor of 10 to power of 2!



64 posted on 04/07/2017 5:57:40 PM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: Fightin Whitey

I’d run rings around you drivin’ my Mercury all up and down the road.


65 posted on 04/07/2017 6:02:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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To: Kenny500c

He was only off by a factor of a million. I just checked with the astronomy website Heavens-Above.com.


66 posted on 04/07/2017 6:07:02 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary: The REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Uh...magnetic fields are not normally measured in watts, are they? And they don't fry anything unless they are oscillating rapidly...kinda like a microwave. Unless physics has changed recently. 😊
67 posted on 04/07/2017 6:07:11 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: nickcarraway

Here’s how Saturn would look if it passed by Earth very closely without any gravitational destruction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGE1p7vFKRM


68 posted on 04/07/2017 6:09:48 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: nickcarraway
 photo Voyager2-Triton_zps0477dc82.gif

O NOES!!

69 posted on 04/07/2017 6:13:38 PM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: DennisR
Okay, ya got me. I'm just a guy with a history degree. My grasp of electrical dynamics is spotty at best :-P

Even so, I imagine that NASA has had to harden their probes to that planet. Jupiter is an electric powerhouse not to get trifled with. A few thousand miles down and the pressure turns the hydrogen into one vast metallic shell of protons. That kind of output can't possibly be conducive for life.

70 posted on 04/07/2017 6:15:38 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: mikrofon

I vividly remember the day the US military pulled Saddam Hussein out of his hole. Lester said, “Can this man get a fair trial in Iraq?”. Liberal minds


71 posted on 04/07/2017 6:18:55 PM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: apostoli

Jupiter is 11 times WIDER than Earth.


72 posted on 04/07/2017 6:18:57 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary: The REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: nickcarraway

By Jove! I don’t think Lesters got it.


73 posted on 04/07/2017 6:25:17 PM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway

Happens every 216 million years. Jupiter takes everything not nailed down on Earth.


74 posted on 04/07/2017 6:32:27 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Kenny500c

For those that don’t know, a light-year, the distance light travels in a year at its ~constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 trillion miles.At its current distance of about 415 million miles, Jupiter is roughly 37 light-minutes from Earth.


75 posted on 04/07/2017 6:32:42 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary: The REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: M Kehoe
Lester is just missing his, “Zero.”

Exactly. s/b 415 million miles. Let's not be picky.

76 posted on 04/07/2017 6:41:54 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
We are insignificant in the universe. Right click and view much larger image.

Blnk
77 posted on 04/07/2017 7:21:31 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: nickcarraway
,br>"Lester Holt Says Jupiter Only 415 Miles From Earth"

Just 2.2 milliseconds away at warp factor 1.
78 posted on 04/07/2017 7:27:07 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: TigersEye

.

I'll kick you in your baby moons!

79 posted on 04/07/2017 7:39:50 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey
Oh, yeah!?! Well, ... could Europa cow while it jumps over the moon? Huh?


80 posted on 04/07/2017 7:57:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (Unmask the Democrats! It's legal now. Ask Susan Rice or 0bama.)
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