Alwaysupvoteunicorns
503416
10904
80
Aug 5, 2014 4:06 PM
Alwaysupvoteunicorns
503416
10904
80
MakingUpAUsernameIsTerrifying
That's so cool! Not like this junk
forrestgravy
Wait, how on Earth do we know that Ceres has more fresh water than Earth under its surface? How do we know it has any?
Koantum
The surface is covered in ice and its density is closer to that of water than typical rocky and metallic objects (such as Earth).
WhiteshooZ
I wondered the same thing... and the answer is "Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water". EVIDENCE
Warmblood
IIRC this was due to observations (probably spectral chromatic) of a water vapor signature coming from (most likely) geysers on the surface.
goodguyC
Mimas is not the only one of Saturn's moons that looks like the death star! Iapetus does as well:
dentalfury
Cool. Too bad most bodies the solar system are cratered to some degree. I remember an article a while back where it was posited that if 1/2
dentalfury
2/2 the Moon orientation was different and the far side was facing us an prominent impact feature would look like a giant eye.
coinlaundry
Mimas is very sensitive to being called "cratered".
sixfoothobbit
They're beauty marks!
Comet260
That's Mimas's trigger!!
jackbos
The white blood cell / USA analog is bullshit. (1/3)
jackbos
(2/3) Diameter of the sun: 1.4e9 m. Diameter of a white blood cell: 1.2e-5 m. Diameter of solar system: 9e12m
TheLastSithposter
Your figure for the solar system is taken from Neptune's orbit. The Oort Cloud's edge is 7e15m. Analog still fails though.
jackbos
(3/3) Do the math on all that and you'll find that if the sun were the size of a WBC, the solar system would be about 0.07 meters. 7cm.
KeytarPlatypus
That's exactly what I thought too. It's way too huge of an exaggeration.
jackbos
There's an earlier factoid about the Milky Way. If the sun were a WBC, the galaxy would be the size of the US. Someone misremembered it.
KeytarPlatypus
That one actually sounds believable.
cirrus42
If the heliosphere is part of the sun, and it extends to Neptune, then I think the sun takes up more than 1 trillionth of 1% of the volume.
dentalfury
Fairly certain those were different points. But I agree sometimes these space facts are so simplified that it ruins it's inherent value.
ChefBoyarDeezNuts
Posting from the future to tell you we have way better pics of pluto now
definit3lynotacop
Yassss
ButtblasterMcAssmaster
Very nice, but missing the coolest object in the Solar System....Titan!
Comet260
It is also larger than Mercury!
MetalMil
Damn you Makemake
Bobeez
Burn the witch!!!!
Vesane
The trickier thing now will be finding one actually from 3 years ago rather than 5, but this is somewhere to start
MarashinoMonster
Dozens of us scrolled alllll through your comments to get here, right here. Dozens of us!
Kipper24
3 years is for rookies. You've got to pump those numbers
Vergenbuurg
...don't forget to dig the ditch, too.
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
What about if I pick a comment 5 years old?
NotEven0nce
To be clear, I felt like I was being issued a challenge.
MezzedUp
Fuck, i thought i would be the first here. You win.
Bobeez
woodenbadger
Jesus fucking Christ that scroll took a long time. Are we having a party now?
ChoccoMilk
The few of us that made the trip
Vesane
Could've just sorted comments by oldest first (on computer)
woodenbadger
But then I wouldn’t have had anything to complain about.
Bobeez
BearInTimber
Woooooo Party!!!
Vergenbuurg
woo.
v
cookiesanddirt
Vergenbuurg
batts
Check out "Kerbal Space Program" on Steam, it's pretty neat.
RoboLuddite
I'm designing an orbital mechanics class for my students in KSP! Or I should be but ended up on Imgur...
EldreshSaenz
You're the cool teacher aren't you? Ever heard of Universe Sandbox? Its pretty neat too!
collindpetty
But I thought Facebook was the largest gathering of trillions of icy bodies in the solar system?
GollyImWet
This is from list25's YouTube channel verbatim if anybody cared for sauce
WowSoUsername
These facts made me feel really agoraphobic
makemepancakes
I love these "space" facts, but they fuck me up too. Watched a show about what would happen if a star near us exploded... so much insomnia.
HommeDeBois
MakeMake: Mah-kay Mah-kay, it used to be called Easterbunny, but changed it's name to the creation/fertility god of Rapanui (Easter Island)
GollyImWet
This is from list25's YouTube channel verbatim if anybody cared for sauce
DualSupernova
i follow that channel.. no wonder it sounded like ive heard someone speaking this o.0 i freaked out, i had a second voice in my head!!
usernamesarewack
That's not sauce. Posting a link is sauce. You're getting all high and might with your verbatim vernacular
IAmNotRoy
I just want to know if this is real. If I tell people this stuff will I look like a fool later?
ParryDox
Even worse is that the pictures and captions are directly from his site.
gondring
Yeah, but the punctuation errors are OC!
OvercomerJoshua1
If folks only knew http://fullgrownministry.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/out-of-order-in-chaos/
TheOnlyCanadianWhoDoesNotLikeHockey
Neat, +1
whooshby
Tomorrow will be the first time in history humans have placed a spacecraft into orbit around a comet. Rosetta around ChuGer (for short).
CommonWhiteBoy
How neat is that?
you999
IHaveAHugeCrushOnTinaFey
Sauce: http://list25.com/25-crazy-facts-about-our-solar-system/
phantomlink
I thought your mom was the most heavily cratered object in the galaxy
Pyrowolf1
No, she's just the most heavily impacted. Most of the impacts go in one of three "craters"
queryable
Fun fact: Venus isn't hot because it's close to the sun, it actually absorbs less than Earth (high albedo), it's just a crazy greenhouse.
playingwithlasers
read that as libido, less accurate
Pencillin
high albedo or high libido, either way things are gettin' hottt
LargePoutine
ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ ᅠᅠ☄
GionaHawkins
Mobile users hate you
ihavenolifeeh
The more you know.
CanonInTheStreetsFanonInTheSheets
Is that a hubble thing
niyohn
fun fact: theres a 1:20 000 000 scale model of the solar system in Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
Zomboid
Neptune represent! I never thought my hometown would ever come up on Imgur.
skyrial
"Uranus was vandalized". Why am I not surprised?
Voidjumper
Someone make an album with pictures. pleasekthankyoubai
nickrad
Here on earth here is one of the most cratered humans.. http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/32/6a/41/326a4126225522b88cd33fa6a421ac54.jpg
OrionRed
Quit making fun of acne sufferers before your 7th grade teacher gets you in trouble.
Raskog
Was expecting Seal.
dualplains
Was expecting Edward James Olmos.
JeanLucPicard
How can you say most of planets spin counter-clockwise? it depends on which anne you're viewing them from….
mymomsaregay
Thank you! There are so many Annes... Srsly tho was waiting for this.
RoboLuddite
Its just convention to view planets from above the northern axis, though the article should really make that clear.
smeefy
not a death star my ass
GnomeDeGuerre
Here hold my belt. I'LL SHOW YOU A REAL MOON.
JaimeLannistersRightHand
Near death star?
max22imus
Typical Empire propaganda bullshit
DarthBrawn
Hehehe.. Moon, ass. Hehe
howdisgusting
It's a "user supplies own reactor" death star.
jawsnnn
That's no Death Star
smeefy
we found the secret government agent
thatpictureisaspy
Nono it's a death stab.
NotAnAligator
Nono, hehe
NotAnAligator
Defintely a death star covered in dust
KaptainKush
Fun fact: They actually modeled the death star after Saturn's moon, Mimas
smeefy
told ya'll its a death star
Neotetron
Except for the part where Star Wars came out 4 years before Mimas was discovered, sure. Totally believable.
TheHiddenPlanet
Sometimes when the posts are so long and about science, that I get so deep in thought, then I come to the end...and bam, I am back in Imgur.
Eddthfc
Nono, mimass ;)
Moneybags118
Fun Fact: According to my astronomy professor Minimas was actually the inspiration for the death star.
NotACanadian
Mimas, not minmus. Also, Mimas' large crater was discovered after Star Wars, not before. Your professor is a dumb.
rokkerboyy
Nope, let your astronomy professor know that Star Wars IV(1977) came out 3 years before the crater was even discovered (1981). Also, Mimas*.
NotAnAligator
*not so funFact but still interesting so +1 for you
DarthBrawn
It's actually not your ass it's the Death Star get your facts straight
theritz22
That's no moon
itsGood4you
http://imgur.com/vI77aP1
porcodemonio
And that's not incense...
Warmblood
Oh wait... maybe it is.
Zodi
That's what they want you to think...
RaultxO
On that one I read "a moon of Sauron" and I pooped myself a little.
TheRealFedora
not like I already said that or anything. but I did.
NotAnAligator
Go somewhere else with your hipster posts and stupid fedora
TheRealFedora
I always thought Norwegians were supposed to be nice people.
smeefy
im no hipster or i'd have read it
TheRealFedora
i'm confused. where do hipsters come in?
smeefy
they've read everything if you ask them
TheRealFedora
ah. well, too bad you didn't see it
RandomCommenter
I remember back when i was a kid, that a documentary on the Voyager project got me interested in space. It was so fascinating. (1/2)
RandomCommenter
It amazes me that, 25 years later, both Voyagers are still active and heading out of our solar system. Still bringing knowledge.
Einstein9073
I've mistrusted the Oort cloud ever since I read the Pern books. Red Planet go away, bring the Thread... never.
Amuzaulo
Oh the nostalgia...
olyrachel
Absolutely my first thought, as well, haha!
fezzesarecoolnow
Signed in just to upvote this, LOVED that series growing up!
TheTempestAlmighty
*Waits patiently for the movies...
BeccaBeccaBoBecca
Yes!!
AsinusAdLyram
That did happen at one point, I think.
OEnone77
Love.
GenStrike
Were these any good? I read quite a few as a young lad, but I doubt I was especially critical over a book about dragons.
Einstein9073
I read them all, but not in a few years. Dad liked them too, though, so they were probably good. :)
yy0b
The original three Dragonriders of Pern books were good, but McAffery sorta drew it out too far with a lot of spin off series.
alpacasaurusrex
Seeing all these Pern fans makes me want to talk to you all in messages and glomp you. Instead I will gift you with some videos. 1/4
alpacasaurusrex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anWzbrVkleg 3/4
alpacasaurusrex
Not quite about Pern, but she DOES mention it. And it mentions a LOT of other scifi planets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUeR-td2JhM 4/4
alpacasaurusrex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFbH6ES3m4 2/4
Nuttsy
Nit: The pic for the Oort cloud (#17), looks a whole lot more dense than it really is.
IGotOneHandInMyPocket
Same with the asteroid belt
FrostyLady
OORT. Now isn't that a fun word? Yes. (Say it many times in rapid succession - you'll see!)
[deleted]
[deleted]
gingen
While the Oort cloud does house icy bodies, it is not strictly a belt. It is quite literally a cloud that surrounds our solar system. (1/2)
gingen
The image shown above is actually the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud extends further beyond the orbit of Pluto and surrounds the system. (2/2)
LETHARGICpancake
Because it would mostly be a picture of nothing, which would defeat the purpose of having a picture
poopsthatgoberloop
Really is? Given it's still theoretical...
LiterallyYourMom
The Oort Cloud is also spherical, not a disc as pictured.
DragonDew
Neil taught me this and I was about to spread the good word.
ByMyPrettyFloralBonnet
Came here to say this. Glad to see someone else has astronomy's metaphorical back!
DigitalPimpAtWork
calm down guys, it's for the purposes of imagination
joe9twit
18?
Nuttsy
Yeah, the formatting fucked me over a bit.
IstoppedlikingmyusernameSoIchangedIt
OP you need to make more of these!!
JohnCarter88
Also I think it's a pic of the kuiper belt.
TakeAllThePhotos
Cool info! +1 for not turning this into a religion vs. atheist debate.
theritz22
...yet
DonkeyKongsLongShlongInABongIsWrong
why would it ever become that? its just planets and shit. no big bang or evolution.
TakeAllThePhotos
Which is great! So many "science" posts have gone from cool science stuff, to angry religion vs. atheism. I just want cool science stuff.
HiMyNameIsUserName
THIS POST CLEARLY PROVES MY POINT ALL OTHER POINTS ARE WRONG ILLUMINATI GEORGE BUSH 9/11 9/11 9/11 JOHN KERRY MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND
ian9outof10
Religion 1 - Astrology 0 (I know what I did).
zenunchucks
Why would that even happen?
CommonWhiteBoy
uhh which part of this involves religion?
TakeAllThePhotos
Nothing, which is why I applaud OP. Lately, "science" posts have degraded into religion vs atheist debates. Tired of it...
lhommequi
Does Makemake have a Moonmoon?
WouldYouLikeSomeBaileysImOldGregg
Nope. http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
jonnyhoe
Now we're asking the important questions.
Palfrost
I've looked up, and it's pronounced makémaké, like in pokémon (almost). Certainly not make-make.
ian9outof10
Fuck you. +1
skippi99r
yes
GetOffMyLawnYa
Just oneone
zeroJive
Yesyes
LegendaryFishCleric
And we have a winner. Best comment ever on imgur.
NoCoconutOnlyPineapple
Make - Hawaiian word for death: Make 1. To die, perish 2. To kill, execute
NoCoconutOnlyPineapple
As used in this phrase: Ke make nei au iā ʻoe e Smalls! Translation: You’re killin’ me Smalls!
spiritof76
LetThemEatPie
Someone call Black Science Man, I need an answer!
Demolysh
Lol Neil degrass Tyson should have a science and space hotline
NicCageTheScienceMage
Astrophysics Black Guy, Hayden Planetary Fly
IAMTHEBATDAD
By the way the answer to your calculation is I
goodjobmyfellowman
Haha
Cassiraa
serious question, is it pronouned Make-Make or Ma-ka-ma-ke
1nvad3r5mu57d13
mmmkay-mmmkay
imalittledroidyshortandstout
doge
Demolysh
It's pronounced ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Sovereignbuddha
Its a Hawaiian name so the its probably pronounced with 2-letter long stressed syllables.
Sakkura
McMake
WeWillNotGiveInToTheThinkers
GIF
UsubM
Ma-keh ma-keh
Silmarilcrown
It's pronounced David
Dispari
It's pronounced gif.
bustrpoindextr
As long as it's not pronounced jif
PyroGuy007
Ma-ke-ma-ke
sideslick
Ma-kay-ma-kay?
jimmy346
It's pronounced xylophone.
narwhaffle
iunderstoodthatreference.mp2
ThaTank
Darude - Sandstorm
acapor
I'm tired of Darude - Sandstorm being the song of every youtube video.
DukeSpraynard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Stonedmanwalking
Thank you for getting that song stuck in my head
wassamattayu
doodleoodoodoodoot
freddieprinzejr
ma-ke ma-ke
marsgoose
CeruleanK
Ma-ke-ma-ke. The name is from Rapa Nui, the Easter Island tribe, because it was discovered on Easter.
Cassiraa
Thank you!
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
Are you sure it's not from Mata Nui, the Great Spirit?
GoodTofuFriday
I like you. Serious childhood memories right there.
ThoseEyebrows
May he (and you) be blessed.
darxide
Fun Fact: Makemake is pronounced sort of like Mayk-eh Mayk-eh. The "eh" part is a guttural stop like the sound where the dash is in Uh-oh.
Xpoks3125
there is no sound where the dash is...
darxide
It does if you pronounce it right.
xmsbeanx
Serious question though, how do they come up with the names for all our awesome planetary stuff? Does the discoverer get to choose?
theoriginalsmellycat
don't makemake up stuff