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Lyonesse (original poster member #32943) posted at 4:08 AM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
Driving home listening to NPR on the Kepler telescope discoveries of "earth-like planets," and one of the scientists interviewed was explaining the technological advances that allow them to find these distant planets. Then he said, "It used to be someone could discover one or two crappy Jupiter-like planets and get on the cover of Time magazine..." 
Did I imagine that he said that??? "Crappy Jupiter-like planets"? With such disdain!
I don't know if he should be snubbing Jupiter, that's a pretty damn big planet.
silverhopes ( member #32753) posted at 4:25 AM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
...Plus Jupiter has a LOT of moons... Does this mean Jupiter got dented more than Earth when it was forming or something like that?
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simplydevastated ( member #25001) posted at 4:35 AM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
Any planet with gravity that can tear anything apart deserves some respect. Damn! Good, Jupiter. Nice, Jupiter 
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aesir ( member #17210) posted at 6:04 AM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
You know, if I recall correctly, physicists believe that planets like Jupiter are necessary for life to evolve. They kinda float around sucking up all the space debris that would otherwise crash into planets like Earth killing everyone. It's sort of like a celestial bodyguard.
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metamorphisis ( member #12041) posted at 2:05 PM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
I prefer to empathize with planets .. or non planets as the case my be.
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TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 3:15 PM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation - Jupiter is a damn bully!!
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BaxtersBFF ( member #26859) posted at 3:39 PM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
It's hilarious how they put Neptune sideways, as in looking around the back of jupiter.
Imagine living on a planet whose axis was pointed toward the sun. Bizarre.
TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 5:23 PM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
Neptune is Jupiter's bitch ...
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StillGoing ( member #28571) posted at 8:37 PM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
Well, the current definition for a planet involves a mass threshold that does not involve fusion and revolve around a star, and it used to be really hard to find planets, so these HUUUUUUUUUUUGE fucking gas giants were exciting because finding a planet outside our solar system in 2004 meant using technology to infer their existence from wobbles in the gravity of a star and you'd get into an argument about whether it was REALLY a planet or just a binary system. Apparently we're now building ice cream shops on Jupiter so gas giants are all ghetto and little lumpy rocks are all the rage. Unless they're free floating masses, then they're just brown shit or something.
PippaPeach6 ( member #37523) posted at 8:43 PM on Friday, April 19th, 2013
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NotDefeatedYet ( member #33642) posted at 8:27 AM on Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Michio Kaku was talking about 'hot Jupiters'. He said, "A hot Jupiter is an 800 pound gorilla. Where does it sit? Anywhere it wants."
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why2008 ( member #18378) posted at 2:35 PM on Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Neptune is Jupiter's bitch ...
NPR guy is a fool, Jupiter is just a bad ass planet.
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simplydevastated ( member #25001) posted at 3:11 PM on Monday, April 22nd, 2013
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