DianeThePunk

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ireneista
@ireneista

we're not even going to list off every astrophysical problem with this


ireneista
@ireneista

the more we chew on this the more we feel like the only aspect of it we can't let go of because we understand what it's going for is that, in our head, Saturn is "she". or more likely "it" when we're not being anthropomorphic, but definitely not "he"

(we understand why the source probably said "he" - by analogy to the Roman god that the planet takes its name from - but yeah)


DianeThePunk
@DianeThePunk

if I were to fall in the sea, I would simply float like a big cork


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in reply to @ireneista's post:

I mean, it really is a way to illustrate the remarkably low overall density of the planet in an easily-imaginable fashion, even if it absolutely fails to capture any detail of why this wouldn't work.

And that's a good thing! This is a neat way of communicating "Saturn is less dense to water" to an audience of laypeople, who are a different audience from those who think about pressures and gravity. It's not meant to be accurate, since you're not the target audience.

That said, unsimplifying is still very fun!

Which is, largely, most people! Given my previous employment, I can tell you that people tend to vastly underestimate everything about the world if it exists past the horizon. Going off-planet, that underestimation and misunderstanding explodes. (I still short out a bit that the photo we took of another galaxy's supermassive black hole was with light the accretion disc emitted when our ancestors were still tiny tree shrews.)

in reply to @ireneista's post:

I've been working out where to assign the planets on a multi-dimensional gender and archetype continuum, as I'm anthromorphizing celestial bodies as "guardians" of their respective planets, for a video game I'm working on

Anyway - the Guardian of Pluto, is The Indefatigable Tomboy, Regina Pluto Plutarchis IX de Charon. And you will remember her name!! 🐭

She's a smol mousegirl.

in reply to @DianeThePunk's post:

You see, most planets would fail to hold themselves together under the titanic physical pressures involved in being submerged in a likewise cosmically potent ocean of liquid water.

But that's a rookie mistake.

If I were to fall into the sea, I would simply float like a big cork.