264
all 43 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 10 months ago

Remember that the volume goes like radius cubed. That image suggests about four times the radius. That means 64 times the volume. It's not as simple though, as saying it has 64 times the mass. That's... complicated.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 46 points 10 months ago

14.5 M⊕ (earth masses) to save you a search.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

Nifty Unicode support is the only thing we like about the future

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago

✨️ density ✨️

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago

I hate when people say "twice as big" that they usually mean diameter. That crap doesn't even make sense for circles.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Uranus and Neptune are a strange size.

Rocky planets/moons tend to be Earth's size or smaller. Venus is a few boulders smaller than Earth, Mars is about half the size, Mercury even smaller, Titan and Ganymede are larger though less dense than Mercury, etc. And us humans have experienced the Earth up close so we have a handle on how big rocky bodies are.

Then there's Jupiter and Saturn, the big ones that have storms the size of our planet, that hit the ceiling for how big a "planet" can be because if you keep adding mass they only get denser, not bigger around, until they light up and become a

Stars are a whole other ball game. Here we start playing those "zoom way the hell out" videos where we start at something familiar and then "here's how big the Sun is compared to that, then here's Betelgeuse, and then UY Scuti or however you spell it, then we get into supermassive black holes..." These are truly brain bending.

But Uranus and Neptune are what? 3 or 4 times the radius of Earth? Uranus is to Earth as Earth is to the Moon? It fits in your head; given a solid surface and acceptable gravity a human could walk around it within a lifetime. The confronting thing about Uranus and Neptune aren't their brain bending size, but the fact that they ARE comprehensible as real places.

Ice giants are neat.

[-] mihor@lemmy.ml 27 points 10 months ago

Still not the biggest a**hole in the solar system, that title goes to /u/spez.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

That's giving him too much credit tbh

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Me: Do these pants make my ass look big?

Her: No

My ass in those pants:

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

There has to be a 'your mom' joke in there somewhere.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah. WAY up in there 🤪

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago
[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

I like Gas GIANTS and i cannot lie

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Oops, not a gas giant. Ice giants, ice giants, baby

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Also, anus is a hole, rather than the whole for which songs are written.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

What if god was one anus

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The word Uranus will never not be funny.

if the more common spelling is used

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby 4 points 10 months ago

What's this mean? I see this a lot.

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

It's young folk speak for ass.

Stick out your GYAT for the Rizzler.

I think the origin is people saying GYAT when they see a nice ass and then GYAT just became ass.

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Slang that went something like "god damn!" -> "gyat damn!" -> "gyat!"

Generally said when you see a big booty.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My understanding is that it’s an acronym for Girl Your Ass Thicc.

it's more like a shortend of GOD DAMN (in a context of ass)

[-] hexdream@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Oh, it's a prison planet...

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Wake me up when we find Urpenis, or "Planet X"

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

I propose Penix as the name for Planet X if we're gonna stay with the naughty bits theme.

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

This is well thought out. I agree. Planet Penix.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Even the Ur anus is bigger

this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
264 points (95.5% liked)

Science Memes

13434 readers
2633 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS