ComradeSharkfucker

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Mar 28 at 2:22amWeb
Show threadTachyonTeleMar 28
Pathetic. No wonder we haven’t bothered to go there yet.
Show threadstarikMar 28

Its’s not Mars’ fault!!

Fuckin Phobos. As usual

Show threadParadachshundMar 28
👀
Show threadFishnoodleMar 28
No wonder the demons in Doom came to attack the base on Phobos. Janky ass turd of a moon
Show threadjayboneMar 28
Spoiler alert: there’s an even uglier one.
Show threadShaggySnacksMar 28
Sadly Deimos disappeared during the Deimos Event.
Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
Show threaddumbassMar 28
Stoned Cookie Monster.
Show threadSendMePhotosMar 28
Show threadtheunknownmuncherMar 28
It’s incomprehensibly special and rare that our moon is just the right size and _just_the right distance away that we get almost perfect eclipses.
Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
I’ve been lucky enough to see a complete solar eclipse 2 times. It’s even more special because it won’t be able to do that forever and it didn’t always either. Genuinely one of the coolest parts of our planet rn.
Show threadDenjinMar 28
That, and the, y’know, life supporting-ness.
Show threadjayboneMar 28
Yeah, but no one seems to care about that minor detail.
Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
Oh yeah I guess that’s alright too
Show threadTachyonTeleMar 28
It depends
Show threadMoffKalastMar 28
It really makes you think if this planet was designed by mice or not.
Show threadfunkajunk 🇨🇦Mar 28
Big ups for Earth
Show threadrarbgMar 28
Can confirm. Earths total eclipses are wild. Most otherworldly spectacle I will witness in my life.
Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
Fully intend to do acid next time I see one.
Show threadMs. ArmoredThirteenMar 28
You better duct tape those eclipse glasses to your face
Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
Tempted to use my welders mask tbh
Show threadBluJay320Mar 28
“Am I…. Getting through?”
Show threadTheLambMar 28
Cain reference? OWO
Show threadMwaMar 28
Eyeball
Show threadExLisperMar 28
Banks had an idea that our total solar eclipse is unique on a galactic scale and aliens for sure come to Earth to see it. So if you want to find aliens you have to monitor solar eclipse sites. I wonder is any government agency actually did it.
Show threaddeadbeef79000Mar 28
Really weird book that one, even for Banks. Tangents or is it Inversions?
Show threadExLisperMar 28
Transitions I believe. I think it’s the last or one of the last ones he wrote (he died and 2013 and in the book he mentions 2008 crisis). Weakest of his books I’ve read. Don’t know if he didn’t had the time to finish it or something but it was just full of holes.
Show threadMeron35Mar 28
Show threadKurrothMar 28
My dumb arse for about five seconds “damn I didn’t know Luna wasn’t so round when viewed from mars”.
Show threadJennaR8rMar 28
I thought moons & planets always appear generally round from a distance. This lumpy irregularly-shaped Phobos looks like an asteroid.
Show threaddeadbeef79000Mar 28

Both Mars’ moons (Phobos and Deimos) are asteroids. They’re really small.

“Hydrostatic equilibrium” is the term (I think) for when a body is massive enough for it’s gravity to pull it into a spheroid. E.g. Ceres is about 950km in diameter and is ‘round’.

Show threadzaphodMar 28

Both Mars’ moons (Phobos and Deimos) are asteroids. They’re really small.

And another W for earth, get fucked mars. Is he even trying?

Show threadJennaR8rMar 28
Hmm today I learned that asteroids can also be moons! Was it just floating around freely like any other asteroid until it got caught into the orbit of Mars, then got stuck there forever?
Show threaddeadbeef79000Mar 28

Probably. It does happen.

Fun fact. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, orbits the wrong way which means it was gravitationally captured by Neptune at some point.

Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
Some moons are just like that. Don’t body shame them
Show threadMuad'dibMar 28
Earth! Earth! Earth! Earth!
Show threadEarthman_JimMar 28
Is it still an eclipse if it’s only a partial obscuration?
Show threadComradeSharkfuckerMar 28
Yes but it isn’t as cool