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[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago

✨️ density ✨️

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

That's giving him too much credit tbh

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me: Do these pants make my ass look big?

Her: No

My ass in those pants:

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah. WAY up in there 🤪

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

I like Gas GIANTS and i cannot lie

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

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

What if god was one anus

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The word Uranus will never not be funny.

if the more common spelling is used

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

Generally said when you see a big booty.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Oh, it's a prison planet...

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Even the Ur anus is bigger

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