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Jupiter has 95 confirmed moons (lemmy.world)
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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 89 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If moons were cats, most planets would be the typical cat dad/mum, and Jupiter would be that crazy old neighbour with too many of them.

...wait a minute considering how our Moon developed, even moon adoption is cat-like! You don't say "I want a moon", the moon just hits you and say "you know what, I'm living here now!"

[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 85 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not shown: Jupiter occasionally tearing one apart and strewing its innards all around or abducting random passerbys and eating them.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

It's okay, must of their kids are adopted anyway.

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago

If I'm not mistaken, Luna is the only moon of same stone and lava as it's parent planet. Charon, too, maybe?

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

The verdict is still out on the formation of Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon. But yes, it may be mostly composed of ejecta from Earth after it collided and merged with another protoplanet.

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 months ago

I was going to say, just like the god it's named after, but I guess it was Saturn who ate babies.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Who amongst us haven't snacked on some infant from time to time? Amirite, fellow atheists?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I'd expect that more from Catholics. They do the whole "body of Christ," thing

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I had a good reply to this comment, but an anonymous mod deleted it for being "adult content/inappropriate".

Apparently it's fine to joke about literally consuming the flesh of infants, but alluding in a lighthearted and completely SFW way to the fact that the catholic church is amongst other things a factory that produces pedophiles is verboten 🤦

[-] girl@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

checks instance

checks modlog

yea that tracks, lemmy.world mods are ridiculous

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I managed to read that before it was removed. No sense of humor

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

No sense of humor

...the mod, right? 😁

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Of course. Lol.

They're not actually violating "free speech,' it just feels like it, cause we're used to having to deal with massive corporations, doing a fairly effective job at trying to control everything, especially the free flow of information.

Bit of a shame really. I'm pretty certain that most of our users would support the right to free speech, but I also suspect that most, like me, don't want to have to host their own instance so that rogue mods can't run roughshod over our ability to communicate

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

[-] jimmux@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

The corporate memphis version is somehow more disturbing than the original.

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

The cooperations consuming the working class...

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[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 60 points 5 months ago

Mars's kids are named Fear and Terror. Not the best parent material there.

[-] gens@programming.dev 26 points 5 months ago

Well, he is the god of war. He wishes his kids to grow up strong and respected like him. Don't be so harsh on the guy, he's doing his best you know.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

You know. This could be hilarious as a premise. I’m thinking a monte python style comedy.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

It's called Life of Brian, they just weren't aware that Yahweh was originally a God of War

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I thought he was a storm god.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not an expert. I read that EL was a God of War, which explains the first several books of the Bible

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"The moons of Fear and Terror" sounds like an amazing crossover between DOOM, Fear & Hunger and Darkest Dungeon

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Appropriately enough Fear (Phobos) is slowly getting closer to Mars and will eventually crash into it.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Just 50 million years or so to go!

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 9 points 5 months ago

Dawn of the first day

438,300,000,000 hours remain

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 4 points 5 months ago

Other planets have moons. Mars has a pair of hamsters. So hamsters named Fear and Terror.

[-] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago

Don’t forget Saturn’s 145 moons!

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 5 months ago

But it's got rings for them to play with.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Jupiter has rings as well, they're just puny compared to Saturn's

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because Beyoncé likes Saturn.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

but a bitch ain't one

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A bitch, I don't think so, but a cow, a bear, a goat (maybe) and probably a lot more are.

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

"I got too many dang moons"

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 8 points 5 months ago

Now are those moon little humans with limbs and a face or are those moon embryos

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

Confirmed as in paternity test?

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Jerry springer style.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I would take one it it came along but the process of getting my first moon... not again

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Does that mean Kamoʻoalewa is a bastard child?

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

QI | How Many Moons Does Earth Have?

Edit oh wait that was just one time when they asked.

Here's a collection:

How Many Moons

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I loved QI with steven fry, it's not the same now

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

Jupiter and Saturn are laughing their "G"asses off at us. Look at that stupid little pea-sized earth with its single puny moon. And they can't even get a lander on it upright!!!

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I lold at gasses

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

: ) I could've made a 'uranus' joke also, but that'd be going a bit far.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Obviously it wouldn't work because Uranus is an ice giant and not a gas giant.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

Good point, and that's what makes science so exacting and hard - finding ways to incorporate a "uranus" joke whenever possible.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Lol, those moons better watch out. They've gone over the number 10! They'll be reclassified as minor moons at any moment now.

(Yes, I still think reclassifying Pluto as a minor planet is scientific bullshit.)

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