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'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals: Jupiter is smaller and flatter than scientists previously thought, new measurements of the gas giant reveal.
Somewhere out there in the universe is a massive planet that is perfectly cube-shaped and is teeming with Marge Simpsons riding skateboards on it. All of which happened by natural coincidences.
Sadly anything bigger than 400km radius cannot remain non-spherical, gravity pulls all matter larger than that into spheres, and some matter (eg ice) gets spherified even at smaller radiuses.
Not correct. You seem to have mistaken (nearly) infinite space for nearly infinite possibilities. I can flip a coin infinite times, but never will the result of that coin toss be the coin turning into an airplane and flying away
lllaszlo | 6 hours ago
"The newly calculated radius at the equator is 44,421 miles (71,488 km) — 2.5 miles (4 km) smaller than previously thought."
WangDanglin | 4 hours ago
Aww man it’s tiny
elusivemoods | 5 hours ago
...banana for scale? 🍌
j4_jjjj | 2 hours ago
2.5mi? Thats barely bigger than OPs mom
AccountNumeroThree | 5 hours ago
I was in the pool!
Shiriru00 | 2 hours ago
What is that? A Jupiter for ANTS???
Ok-Brush5346 | 5 hours ago
Oh no the flat-jupiterers aren't ever gonna let us live this one down.
TimeDetectiveAnakin | 5 hours ago
Somewhere out there in the universe is a massive planet that is perfectly cube-shaped and is teeming with Marge Simpsons riding skateboards on it. All of which happened by natural coincidences.
aeschenkarnos | 2 hours ago
Sadly anything bigger than 400km radius cannot remain non-spherical, gravity pulls all matter larger than that into spheres, and some matter (eg ice) gets spherified even at smaller radiuses.
Motor_Eye6263 | 38 minutes ago
Not correct. You seem to have mistaken (nearly) infinite space for nearly infinite possibilities. I can flip a coin infinite times, but never will the result of that coin toss be the coin turning into an airplane and flying away
the_red_scimitar | 5 hours ago
Turns out pictures were actually life-sized.
_OriginalUsername- | 3 hours ago
"What is this? A planet for ants?!"
Artistic-Yard1668 | 3 hours ago
I don’t care what anyone says. Jupiter is still 71,492 km. Tired of woke science ruining everything.
dimechimes | 2 hours ago
Let's kick it out of the solar system. Now down to 7 planets.
Hugostrang3 | 2 hours ago
Not by much.
MindlessDoctor6182 | an hour ago
Flat earthers are like “Oh so what you’re saying is the same people that say Earth is round have been proven wrong about other planets?”
-Im_In_Your_Walls- | an hour ago
The flat Jupiter theory is true!
/s
nei_vil_ikke | 31 minutes ago
The healthy at every size crowd is eerily silent today.