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ireneista
@ireneista

that is QUITE SOMETHING

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

polymath
@polymath

YES WE ARE

because I did a whole bit on this once so I already have notes. much of it is fairly obvious but I ran some numbers so i'm quite confident in most of the specifics.

micolithe
@micolithe

Someone in my high school Earth Science class freshman year once asked "I know you can't do this but.... if you were to take a chunk of the sun and put it in the ocean would the ocean get really hot?"

dosmeow
@dosmeow

This is unlocking a childhood memory of a book saying that if you could find a bath tub big enough, Saturn would float in it.

Why were we obsessed with getting this planet wet

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Kassil
@Kassil

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.

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hillexed
@hillexed

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!

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Kassil
@Kassil

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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polymath
@polymath

This would also allow you to do the "make Saturn small" version of the experiment, although not as a piece of science communication because basically the demo is just an inflated condom bobbing about in the sink

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