we're not even going to list off every astrophysical problem with this
no no lets hear them out, i wanna know more about the cork/saturn spectrum
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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.
if you dropped the ocean into Saturn....
but yes. easily imaginable for people who aren't in the habit of imagining things about planets :)
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.)
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