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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 03:17 Post subject: Sense of Scale	Quick Quote Quote

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 03:31 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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helvete

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 10:24 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

vertigo inducing.. very cool. REPOST

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:51 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Wish it were for real.

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 14:55 Post subject:

human_steel wrote:

Wish it were for real.

I can immediately tell you that if it was for real Earth would be nothing but chunks and gravel spiralling into Jupiter. Razz

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human_steel

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 15:19 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I know that. I wish Jupiter just stood there without getting its gravity and mass into the equation.

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helvete

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 18:51 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I'd shit my pants if I were that close to jupiter.. it's too damn huge! REPOST

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 19:57 Post subject:

You did read that he used the wrong scale or sth (viewing angle or so). Anywho, I wonder what it's like on Io, or Europe, or Ganymede... So close to the Jupiter...

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thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.

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human_steel

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 20:07 Post subject:

dingo_d wrote:

I wonder what it's like on Io, or Europe, or Ganymede... So close to the Jupiter...

Boring.

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helvete

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Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 21:32 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Io is far from boring. So close to Jupiter tidal stresses make for an interesting environment. It's also located inside Jupiter's giant magnetosphere, and as it's highly volcanic it expels a massive amount of gases which interact with Jupiter's magnetosphere in a dramatic display of ionised particles. To sum it up, Io fucking rocks! REPOST

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