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How do they know Saturn is a "gas giant"?


Nobodies ever been to an other planet. So who are these scientists to say that it's a "gas giant" or that the red spot on Jupiter is a hurricane or that Venus is acidic? Also I'm aware that there is a google map of Mars same as with Earth but if they're able to edit the people out of Earth's photography what makes you think they can't do the same with life on Mars?

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They can tell what elements that they’re comprised of with a spectrometer, and to determine the solidity, I’m going to guess that they can bounce a signal off of them and tell that way. If I recall correctly, the gas giants do have a solid metallic core.

The Russians have actually sent probes to Venus, but with an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earth, and a surface temperature of around 800 degrees Fahrenheit, they didn’t last long.

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Science!

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Stop blinding us!! 😎

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Ok, it's actually magic!

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It's poetry in motion....

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They read the meter then checked with the local gas and electric company.


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Hopefully that martian..erm...and/or human is being paid $15/hr.; although, there have been protests on Saturn that that is still less than their minimum wage.

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I think they even declared war to martians😉

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LOL, arvin!


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Most planets are just gas.

The red spot on Jupiter may actually be a volcano.

Venus is definitely not your "basic" planet. It is more a premiere package and since the pH scale measures only acidic and basic, it has to be acidic.

It takes quite a bit of working and reworking the data to get what you need.

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Your teachers failed you.

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Fuck that we need to question everything. If you haven't been to another planet you can't claim to be an expert on it.

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The questions have already been answered. Asking them again over and over because you are clueless doesn't change that.

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"Your teachers failed you."

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If knowledge is power and power corrups,how the human kind ever survive?

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