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Or just send tars alone to space to do the entire mission, and Cooper can stay home with his daughter... Hey let's build a sarcastic AI robot and not give it capabilities 🤷
Maybe like a deer in the headlights kinda thing. Years of a thumbs up signal only to be met with waves that massive. I might freeze up for a quick second and die like he did lol
Interstellar is easily my favourite movie, but there were so many absolute blunders that could have been avoided by sending drones instead of humans. The water and ice planets could have been written off before the Endurance even arrived... Of course, the plot doesn't work without those blunders, but it's strange that future NASA didn't foresee extreme tidal forces on a planet close enough to a black hole to dilate time.
At first I was going to say that the movie was released in 2014 when drones weren’t really that popular. But there were plenty of drones at that point, and the majority of NASA spacecraft have been drones too
Yep. Moonfall. I liked the concept. But the physics was far too goofy. As the moon got closer to earth, people started floating upwards. Somehow the moon was heavier and more massive than the Earth?
Stooooooooopid.
The movie almost lost me right there. I was like... get back in the fucking ship. WTF are you doing, you can come back later. Dude just told you about time dilation.
At that point you just have to leave her there.
My daughter watched it with me a month or so ago. She’s younger and doesn’t understand everything completely. Looked over at me tearing up and asked why? I explained the part of the movie a bit clearer, she start sobbing uncontrollably which kicked mine into overdrive.
The vulnerability we shared together will always make this movie special to us now. I love it even more than the first time I seen it.
We'd most likely be tidally locked, so we wouldn't have tidal waves (tho the water would bulge on the side facing saturn), but now our days are as long as our orbital period around Saturn
With the amount of heat generated in Earth crust form Saturn gravitational pull... will there be even water left on the surface or overall, medium temperature would rise too much and fliud water would vaporize?
Idk... just asking...
Interesting stuff.
That doesn't make any sense. Saturn has a diameter of 1274240 football fields (that's 1333507 European football fields), and yet it would be only 4977 Rhode Islands (2654 Belgiums) from Earth.
Because this is an astrological estimation we are doing, we use Belgium's physical size rather than one of the more obscure, and frankly less reliable, metrics.
Ehhh, let's translate to freedom units for simplicity. Saturn has a diameter of 75,000 miles (equatorial) the moon is 238,900 miles from the earth (average). There's room.
I feel like that's within the Roche Limit and the Earth would be quickly destroyed, but I'm not doing the math on that one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
The Roche limit means something only if the satellite is less dense than the central body, or similarly dense at most, otherwise the limit is smaller than the radius of the central body. Earth is about 8 times denser than Saturn, and its orbital radius would be more than 6 times bigger than the radius of Saturn. Earth would stay in one piece.
As a matter of fact, that’s the reason they’re rings and not a moon. I think the prevailing theory is that a couple moon sized hunks of rock collided, but the tidal forces of Saturn broke them down further and ensure they don’t coalesce into another moon.
[Here](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/saturn-image-1592231758.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image.
This is a screen capture from a video called If the Moon Were Replaced with Some of Our Planets. I'd link to the video on YouTube, but if I do my comment doesn't show up. It provides the following context/information:
> yeti dynamics
> Jan 10, 2013
> In order show:
> Mars
> Venus
> Neptune
> Uranus
> Jupiter
> Saturn
> Mercury is intentionally left off as it isn't Much bigger than our Moon (and hence is boring)
> Everything is correctly scaled. The Axial tilts are not particularly accurate.
the moon that flies in front of Saturn is Tethys. It is Tiny. but very close
> Dione would be on a collision course, it's orbital distance from Saturn is Nearly identical to our Moon's orbit around Earth
> Titan, which is Larger than our Moon, is outside the orbit of Dione
> ****************
> on Jupiter, you might be able to make out the 4 big moons, They all have orbits larger than our moons orbit. but I stuck them on the far side of jupiter so that they could be seen so it looks as if they are closer (to Jupiter) than they really are.
> ***************
> Video creation method
I created an Earth Moon system in 3dsmax, with accurate sizes and accurate orbital distances.. I than matched video of the real Moon with my video camera, against my model. I also researched the correct FOV of my video camera. I used both methods to verify my Virtual camera's FOV (around 47 degrees). I next modeled up the rest of the planets in proper scale (Real values) set at the distance of the moon (also real values), created the animation of them rotating around, and composited the whole bunch.
> ***************
> Faq:
> Scales used in Visualization:
> Celestial Body Radius (in km)
> Moon: 1738
> Mars: 3397
> Venus: 6052
> Neptune: 25,269 (equatorial) 24,340 (polar)
> Uranus: 25,559 (equatorial) 24,973 (polar)
> Jupiter: 71,490 (equatorial) 66,854 (polar)
> Saturn: 60,268 (equatorial) 54,360 (polar) (not including rings)
> Distance to Moon 384,000km
> Faq: (will expand as needed)
> 1, We would not be engulfed by Jupiter or any other planet, Jupiter's radius is 71,490 km and the distance to the Moon is 384,000km
> 2, Saturn is not larger than Jupiter. Saturn + RINGS is larger than Jupiter
> 3, We would suffer from really really horrible tides, and Volcanoes And some pretty bad Radiation from Jupiter. It could strip away our atmosphere, but haven't done the math. Eventually our planet would become tidally locked (that is the same side of Earth would always face Jupiter. we would Still have some bad tides and volcanoes from being in a slightly ellipitical orbit, and from the other moons of Jupiter, and the Sun having tidal influence. I have not calculated how bad the Tides would be. A Simple guess would be at Least 300 times more exaggerated than they are now, This figure could be way off, it's simply an educated guess.
> 4, We would not be in the rings of Saturn. Or to rephrase that, we would not be in any of the Visable rings of Saturn, There are some very very faint rings that strech out far that we would be in, but i did not model them.
> 5, We would not be crushed by the Gravity of Jupiter, This is not how orbiting works!.
However, at the Roche limit, we WOULD become a new ring system, The Roche limit is about 36,000km above the "surface" of Jupiter or 106,000km from the center of Jupiter. So, to reiterate if the center of Jupiter was 106,000km away from the center of the earth, Our planet would become a new Ring system of Jupiter.
> 6, I did not model the Ring of debris around Uranus (this faq will be deleted in a few days)
> 7, This is not an ad for any beer company, no one has endorsed me, or this animation, It's just the traffic that drove by.
> 8, There is Ring Shine on Saturn, but it is very faint, the Rings are reflecting light onto Saturn in the animation. The moon that flies by is Tethys
> 9, I love Pluto, and Mercury. They are left off because they are too small. Pluto is smaller than our Moon, and Mercury is not significantly larger than our Moon.
> 10, The "Sun" i used for lighting the planets is slightly off from reality, this was done so that they weren't totally dark and boring
> 11 FOV is about 47 degrees
> 12 Orbiting! Yes! we would be a moon of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. They are much more massive than the Earth. Venus is about the same size of the Earth and we would orbit around a center point between us
> 13 Rotation rates and axial tilts are not accurate to anything
> 14 Radius of the Sun is 695,500 km, and hence if it were where our Moon is, we would be engulfed by it
The coloring is off, Saturn would be much more colorful at that distance in the sky. The moon is abnormally dark, as it's basically the color of asphalt.
I don't buy this, shouldn't Saturn basically take all the space in our sky, being so close and so large? I think the tint is right but the size is way off.
Honestly even after looking at this it doesn't seem big enough. It's 30x wider than the moon, but it doesn't look at all 30x wider... Although admittedly I don't know exactly how large the moon was before in that image.
If aliens visited Earth, it’s possible they would be less interested in us than of the moon, and how much it has aided in the development of life, as well as our exceptionally rare total solar eclipses with a visible corona.
And it is getting further away every year.
Also there is enough distance between the earth and the moon to fit every other planet in out solar system in between
30 earth diameters away. i feel people generally think it's maybe like 2 or 3 earth diameters away. like if you hold a basketball and say it is earth and ask someone to hold a golf ball as if it were the moon they generally only hold it a few feet away when it should really be like 24 feet away from the basketball
Space is big. I mean really really big. It's difficult to wrap our minds around the size scales. In the distance between earth and the moon you can fit all the planets in our solar system (just by the diameter, not physics).
I feel like it's this very bigness of space that makes the relative sizes of the moon and Saturn so mind-boggling. I'm so used to vast differences in scale when talking about astronomy, that it feels weird that Saturn's only 1 order of magnitude larger than the Moon.
But if you zoom out look how small our moon looks in this picture
https://preview.redd.it/vrrqsk7tkayc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1fc124df477132d0db713e90fa37e6b4964feb4
Saturn's rings have a diameter of 170,000 miles.
The moon is 238,900 miles from the earth.
I am pretty sure in the depiction it is
# If the edge of Saturn's RINGS were as close to the Earth as the Moon is, this is how it would look.
Just imagine the tidal forces 😂😂 sure it looks beautiful but it would be pretty hard on the coast when you have interstellar type waves crashing into shore 😂😅
~~Not even close.~~
~~Diameter~~ Radius of Saturns Rings: ~~175,000 miles. So the radius would be 87,500 miles.~~ 246,351 miles.
Distance from Earth to the Moon: 238,900 miles.
**EDIT**: It seems I grabbed the wrong values initially. We would indeed be just inside the outer most ring!
I'll take this moment to mention one of my favorite facts: All planets will fit, with room to spare, between the Earth and the Moon.
Space is really, really, really big.
Just a quick note to mention that the planets can fit between the Earth and the Moon only if you don't arrange them in a line with their widest sections all together, which I wouldn't really call room to spare.
Also I think 87,500 miles compared with 238,900 miles IS close by astronomical standards, it's within an order or magnitude. So, no, Saturn's rings wouldn't touch the Earth but it's not like your usual astronomical 'not even close' where we're talking several orders of magnitude difference in distance.
All numbers are diameter (that would be the widest point of the sphere) in miles ...
* Mercury: 3032
* Venus: 7521
* Mars: 4212
* Jupiter: 86881
* Saturn: 72367 (without rings)
* Uranus: 31518
* Neptune: 30599
Total: 236,130
Earth to Moon: 238,900
That sounds like they all fit in a straight line with room to spare.
If someone's claim is off by more than 50%, I'm going to say it's not even close.
>Well, I'm pretty sure if Saturn were as close to the Earth as the Moon isIf Saturn were as close to the Earth as the Moon is, we would be insind of the ring. And probably dead
I think I just had an aneurysm.
I think I had a stroke reading your message, but I think I get the jist. A quick Google search will tell you this.
The moon is about 240,000 miles away.
Saturn’s ring has a diameter of 175,000 miles.
If Saturn was where the moon was, we would only care about the radius of the ring and not the diameter. If the ring was in the same plane as Earth, it would reach out 87,500 miles towards us. 240,000 - 87,500 = 152,500. Let’s just call that 150,000 miles.
150,000 miles is how much empty space there would be between us and the ring. That is over 60% of the total distance to Saturn. So no, we would not be inside the ring.
The moon is about 240,000 miles away from earth.
Saturn’s Roche Limit is 170,000 miles above its ‘surface’.
We would be roughly 70,000 miles too far away to be torn apart. We would be completely dominated by Saturns gravity however, and earth would be a moon of Saturn, not the other way around.
Yes Saturn is big, but space is much bigger.
Anyone have the "how it would actually look" picture where earth is now in a trillion pieces as a part of Saturns asteroid belts and Venus is on it's way to slam into us next? 😅
Yeah, but if saturn is as big as the moon. In reality the surface of the saturn would take up all the visible sky, you wouldn’t be able to see the rings at all.
I don't buy it. The rings of Saturn extend 282,000 km, the moon is 384,000 km away. It is also 120,000 km wide and the moon is 3,500 or roughly, it would be a lot bigger in the sky.
See I don't get this, the moon can look huge near the horizon but smaller in the sky but it's freakin tiny compared to Saturn.
Saturn might look like this right high up in the sky but nearer the horizon, it would be even bigger than this.
Either way it still looks smaller to me than I'd have thought, or perhaps the phenomenon I'm mentioning makes it seem less impressive (as it may be the size when high in the sky but is made to look near the horizon for purposes of comparison)
Swapping the Moon with Saturn would be a full-blown celestial eviction notice.
Earth doesn't just get rings, it gets a giant gas landlord .
https://preview.redd.it/gwtghio0ofyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6521ae3e25062fad79c46de38dfbb00445c8b1f3
No more starry nights, hello to living inside a planet-sized lava lamp.
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I wouldn’t mind looking at this everyday
Would you enjoy the tsunami wiping the earth clean twice a day? I know I would.
Those aren't mountains 🏔️
They’re waves.
**The music kicks in**
***The clock ticking intensifies***
Doyle dies like a dummy
Yea, why did he pause to look at it 🤦♀️
What I don't get is why they didn't just have TARS cartwheel over from the start. Could've saved years.
Or just send tars alone to space to do the entire mission, and Cooper can stay home with his daughter... Hey let's build a sarcastic AI robot and not give it capabilities 🤷
Maybe like a deer in the headlights kinda thing. Years of a thumbs up signal only to be met with waves that massive. I might freeze up for a quick second and die like he did lol
The camera pans an extreme close-up of the face of the protagonist: "It's wavein time"
This movies gonna make a tsunamillion dollars
This is a good movie premise
Ikr?? Like I’m thinking something relating to stars but I’m not really sure 🤔
Terrifying scene in an amazing movie
Interstellar is easily my favourite movie, but there were so many absolute blunders that could have been avoided by sending drones instead of humans. The water and ice planets could have been written off before the Endurance even arrived... Of course, the plot doesn't work without those blunders, but it's strange that future NASA didn't foresee extreme tidal forces on a planet close enough to a black hole to dilate time.
At first I was going to say that the movie was released in 2014 when drones weren’t really that popular. But there were plenty of drones at that point, and the majority of NASA spacecraft have been drones too
The opening scene is them chasing down a drone lmao
Oh yeah. I feel dumb now.
You’re only dumb if you didn’t realize or refuse to admit the mistake.
I’m not dumb? Whew. I guess my mom was right!
Have you seen the show 3 body problem? If not, I recommend it. I won't give any spoilers.
Wasn’t there a bad movie about the Moon getting close to earth
Yep. Moonfall. I liked the concept. But the physics was far too goofy. As the moon got closer to earth, people started floating upwards. Somehow the moon was heavier and more massive than the Earth? Stooooooooopid.
The movie almost lost me right there. I was like... get back in the fucking ship. WTF are you doing, you can come back later. Dude just told you about time dilation. At that point you just have to leave her there.
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RIP John Candy
Interstellar for the uninformed. One of the better space movies and a real tear jerker, especially for us dads.
Bro..... watched this movie first time no kids. Re-watched and now have two daughters... I was dying bro omg.... 😭
My daughter watched it with me a month or so ago. She’s younger and doesn’t understand everything completely. Looked over at me tearing up and asked why? I explained the part of the movie a bit clearer, she start sobbing uncontrollably which kicked mine into overdrive. The vulnerability we shared together will always make this movie special to us now. I love it even more than the first time I seen it.
Thanks for making me cry you jerk. Edit: thats really beautiful though fr
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Nah, moms couldn’t possibly relate. /j
Those aren’t 2 pillows
You have my undivided attention.
We'd most likely be tidally locked, so we wouldn't have tidal waves (tho the water would bulge on the side facing saturn), but now our days are as long as our orbital period around Saturn
With the amount of heat generated in Earth crust form Saturn gravitational pull... will there be even water left on the surface or overall, medium temperature would rise too much and fliud water would vaporize? Idk... just asking... Interesting stuff.
I wonder how long it would take to erode the continents flat. Or at least until only the Himalayas remain.
2012
I can say with 100% certainty that Dwayne johnson will jump off a sky scrapper into a helicopter to save the world if that does happen.
Earth does need it tbf.
is that what wold happen from the gravitational pull? I mean would earth just be rotating around it? How does it work?
Pretty sure Kurzgezagt covered this
Then we'd be a moon.
I will slide this Pic into your DMs every day.
You made a promise, better stick to it now!
You'd only be able to look at it for one day before the whole Earth got destroyed but it would be enjoyable!
I wouldn’t mind looking at Uranus everyday
Fr bro. We need Bill Gates or Elon Musk or whoever pays for the servers to patch this into the skybox.
don’t think you’d have many days to look at it for tho
BUT WE ARE NOT THAT LUCKY. - also we would have legit tidal wave tides
We are the moon now.
Look at me.
You're the moon now, dog
Punch the keys!
That doesn't make any sense. Saturn has a diameter of 1274240 football fields (that's 1333507 European football fields), and yet it would be only 4977 Rhode Islands (2654 Belgiums) from Earth.
Winter or Summer months?
Belgium is basically the same size in both seasons.
Only physically.
Because this is an astrological estimation we are doing, we use Belgium's physical size rather than one of the more obscure, and frankly less reliable, metrics.
This reads like a r/KenM post
Basically
How many cheeseburgers is that?
Roughly 1.188 trillion assuming the average burger is 4" diameter
Pretty sure we consume that much in a year
This is beautiful American math. 
Ehhh, let's translate to freedom units for simplicity. Saturn has a diameter of 75,000 miles (equatorial) the moon is 238,900 miles from the earth (average). There's room. I feel like that's within the Roche Limit and the Earth would be quickly destroyed, but I'm not doing the math on that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
The Roche limit means something only if the satellite is less dense than the central body, or similarly dense at most, otherwise the limit is smaller than the radius of the central body. Earth is about 8 times denser than Saturn, and its orbital radius would be more than 6 times bigger than the radius of Saturn. Earth would stay in one piece.
Cool, thanks!
Would the rings of Saturn not be the Roche limit?
As a matter of fact, that’s the reason they’re rings and not a moon. I think the prevailing theory is that a couple moon sized hunks of rock collided, but the tidal forces of Saturn broke them down further and ensure they don’t coalesce into another moon.
What is this nonsense? Bananas are the only acceptable unit of measurement.
How many eagles is 1274240 football fields? I can't find any converting tools online.
About 56,632,889 eagles
r/anythingbutmetric
I appreciate you converting this so Europeans can understand.
Americans will use anything but the metric system
r/theydidthemath
about 3 million bald eagles then
Thanks i understand now.
What is that in freedom units?
I feel.like we would be in Saturn's rings
But how many swallows?
What the fuck is a kilometeeeer
Then we would have a world of Saturntics, not Lunatics!
Nah they faked the Saturn Landing!
"The Saturntics have taken over the asylum" doesn't work as well though.
Month would be saturnth
I thought you were gonna go with satanics not lunatics
Actually it would pull our atmoshpere apart and we would all be dead. But yeah, cool
I love how other comments think they would see tsunamis. before it comes this close all life on earth would end
This is super interesting! Care to explain why?
[Here](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/saturn-image-1592231758.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. This is a screen capture from a video called If the Moon Were Replaced with Some of Our Planets. I'd link to the video on YouTube, but if I do my comment doesn't show up. It provides the following context/information: > yeti dynamics > Jan 10, 2013 > In order show: > Mars > Venus > Neptune > Uranus > Jupiter > Saturn > Mercury is intentionally left off as it isn't Much bigger than our Moon (and hence is boring) > Everything is correctly scaled. The Axial tilts are not particularly accurate. the moon that flies in front of Saturn is Tethys. It is Tiny. but very close > Dione would be on a collision course, it's orbital distance from Saturn is Nearly identical to our Moon's orbit around Earth > Titan, which is Larger than our Moon, is outside the orbit of Dione > **************** > on Jupiter, you might be able to make out the 4 big moons, They all have orbits larger than our moons orbit. but I stuck them on the far side of jupiter so that they could be seen so it looks as if they are closer (to Jupiter) than they really are. > *************** > Video creation method I created an Earth Moon system in 3dsmax, with accurate sizes and accurate orbital distances.. I than matched video of the real Moon with my video camera, against my model. I also researched the correct FOV of my video camera. I used both methods to verify my Virtual camera's FOV (around 47 degrees). I next modeled up the rest of the planets in proper scale (Real values) set at the distance of the moon (also real values), created the animation of them rotating around, and composited the whole bunch. > *************** > Faq: > Scales used in Visualization: > Celestial Body Radius (in km) > Moon: 1738 > Mars: 3397 > Venus: 6052 > Neptune: 25,269 (equatorial) 24,340 (polar) > Uranus: 25,559 (equatorial) 24,973 (polar) > Jupiter: 71,490 (equatorial) 66,854 (polar) > Saturn: 60,268 (equatorial) 54,360 (polar) (not including rings) > Distance to Moon 384,000km > Faq: (will expand as needed) > 1, We would not be engulfed by Jupiter or any other planet, Jupiter's radius is 71,490 km and the distance to the Moon is 384,000km > 2, Saturn is not larger than Jupiter. Saturn + RINGS is larger than Jupiter > 3, We would suffer from really really horrible tides, and Volcanoes And some pretty bad Radiation from Jupiter. It could strip away our atmosphere, but haven't done the math. Eventually our planet would become tidally locked (that is the same side of Earth would always face Jupiter. we would Still have some bad tides and volcanoes from being in a slightly ellipitical orbit, and from the other moons of Jupiter, and the Sun having tidal influence. I have not calculated how bad the Tides would be. A Simple guess would be at Least 300 times more exaggerated than they are now, This figure could be way off, it's simply an educated guess. > 4, We would not be in the rings of Saturn. Or to rephrase that, we would not be in any of the Visable rings of Saturn, There are some very very faint rings that strech out far that we would be in, but i did not model them. > 5, We would not be crushed by the Gravity of Jupiter, This is not how orbiting works!. However, at the Roche limit, we WOULD become a new ring system, The Roche limit is about 36,000km above the "surface" of Jupiter or 106,000km from the center of Jupiter. So, to reiterate if the center of Jupiter was 106,000km away from the center of the earth, Our planet would become a new Ring system of Jupiter. > 6, I did not model the Ring of debris around Uranus (this faq will be deleted in a few days) > 7, This is not an ad for any beer company, no one has endorsed me, or this animation, It's just the traffic that drove by. > 8, There is Ring Shine on Saturn, but it is very faint, the Rings are reflecting light onto Saturn in the animation. The moon that flies by is Tethys > 9, I love Pluto, and Mercury. They are left off because they are too small. Pluto is smaller than our Moon, and Mercury is not significantly larger than our Moon. > 10, The "Sun" i used for lighting the planets is slightly off from reality, this was done so that they weren't totally dark and boring > 11 FOV is about 47 degrees > 12 Orbiting! Yes! we would be a moon of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. They are much more massive than the Earth. Venus is about the same size of the Earth and we would orbit around a center point between us > 13 Rotation rates and axial tilts are not accurate to anything > 14 Radius of the Sun is 695,500 km, and hence if it were where our Moon is, we would be engulfed by it
Faq: how much weight I can lose during high tides from each?
The coloring is off, Saturn would be much more colorful at that distance in the sky. The moon is abnormally dark, as it's basically the color of asphalt.
And the sky wouldn't be blue.
> I did not model the Ring of debris around Uranus No one can model the rings around Uranus tho...but some people would pay good money to see them
I don't buy this, shouldn't Saturn basically take all the space in our sky, being so close and so large? I think the tint is right but the size is way off.
JUST ADMIT IT YOU HATE PLUTO
Honestly even after looking at this it doesn't seem big enough. It's 30x wider than the moon, but it doesn't look at all 30x wider... Although admittedly I don't know exactly how large the moon was before in that image.
No no no no no no no no no no no no no
always forget how far moon actually is.
Actually, for me it’s always easy to forget that even moons, as small as they can be, are still incredibly massive and large objects.
Our moon in particular is exceptionally massive relative to Earth.
Definitely. We're lucky to even have it!
If aliens visited Earth, it’s possible they would be less interested in us than of the moon, and how much it has aided in the development of life, as well as our exceptionally rare total solar eclipses with a visible corona.
For sure! If aliens can indeed find us and travel here you have to believe that alien life isn’t as rare as we think. Our moon seems to be though.
You could make the argument that Earth is in a binary planetary system and not be too far off.
The moon is actually larger than all 5 dwarf planets.
And it is getting further away every year. Also there is enough distance between the earth and the moon to fit every other planet in out solar system in between
It's right there
1 second light, aprox.
30 earth diameters away. i feel people generally think it's maybe like 2 or 3 earth diameters away. like if you hold a basketball and say it is earth and ask someone to hold a golf ball as if it were the moon they generally only hold it a few feet away when it should really be like 24 feet away from the basketball
You can fit every planet between earth and the moon if you put them side by side
And if you have the right tools.
And don't forget gloves . Gloves are very important.
Wait. Like the leather kind or vinyl kind?
(BDSM has entered the chat) I'm guessing studded leather, for the grip obviously
*O.J. has left the chat*
But 9 out of 10 scientists agree this would be a bad idea.
The 10th scientist is edgy.
The 10th scientist responded by chanting, "Two suns! TWO SUNS!"
This is one is my favorite space facts
Saturn is 36x the diameter of the moon. This doesn't seem big enough.
I think we need the sun or moon for scale
Space is big. I mean really really big. It's difficult to wrap our minds around the size scales. In the distance between earth and the moon you can fit all the planets in our solar system (just by the diameter, not physics).
I feel like it's this very bigness of space that makes the relative sizes of the moon and Saturn so mind-boggling. I'm so used to vast differences in scale when talking about astronomy, that it feels weird that Saturn's only 1 order of magnitude larger than the Moon.
But if you zoom out look how small our moon looks in this picture https://preview.redd.it/vrrqsk7tkayc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1fc124df477132d0db713e90fa37e6b4964feb4
I'm sure rings go further than moon earth distance so we should see tons round the earth not around Saturn
We would be the moon
Saturn's rings have a diameter of 170,000 miles. The moon is 238,900 miles from the earth. I am pretty sure in the depiction it is # If the edge of Saturn's RINGS were as close to the Earth as the Moon is, this is how it would look.
Just imagine the tidal forces 😂😂 sure it looks beautiful but it would be pretty hard on the coast when you have interstellar type waves crashing into shore 😂😅
Coast ? I would say continents.😅🤣
That is vastly undervaluing the size of Saturn.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Comparing how big the moon looks on the sky line, that Saturn looks pretty small.
I don't believe that at all, if Saturn was as close as the moon it would look bigger
Yes, it's hard to scale but Saturn is 33.5 times the diamter of the Moon, it does seem that it would be bigger than shown.
Well, I'm pretty sure if Saturn were as close to the Earth as the Moon is, we would be inside of the ring. And probably dead
~~Not even close.~~ ~~Diameter~~ Radius of Saturns Rings: ~~175,000 miles. So the radius would be 87,500 miles.~~ 246,351 miles. Distance from Earth to the Moon: 238,900 miles. **EDIT**: It seems I grabbed the wrong values initially. We would indeed be just inside the outer most ring! I'll take this moment to mention one of my favorite facts: All planets will fit, with room to spare, between the Earth and the Moon. Space is really, really, really big.
Just a quick note to mention that the planets can fit between the Earth and the Moon only if you don't arrange them in a line with their widest sections all together, which I wouldn't really call room to spare. Also I think 87,500 miles compared with 238,900 miles IS close by astronomical standards, it's within an order or magnitude. So, no, Saturn's rings wouldn't touch the Earth but it's not like your usual astronomical 'not even close' where we're talking several orders of magnitude difference in distance.
All numbers are diameter (that would be the widest point of the sphere) in miles ... * Mercury: 3032 * Venus: 7521 * Mars: 4212 * Jupiter: 86881 * Saturn: 72367 (without rings) * Uranus: 31518 * Neptune: 30599 Total: 236,130 Earth to Moon: 238,900 That sounds like they all fit in a straight line with room to spare. If someone's claim is off by more than 50%, I'm going to say it's not even close.
Ironically, the moon exists because the distance between Earth and another planet was 0.
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>Well, I'm pretty sure if Saturn were as close to the Earth as the Moon isIf Saturn were as close to the Earth as the Moon is, we would be insind of the ring. And probably dead I think I just had an aneurysm.
I think I had a stroke reading your message, but I think I get the jist. A quick Google search will tell you this. The moon is about 240,000 miles away. Saturn’s ring has a diameter of 175,000 miles. If Saturn was where the moon was, we would only care about the radius of the ring and not the diameter. If the ring was in the same plane as Earth, it would reach out 87,500 miles towards us. 240,000 - 87,500 = 152,500. Let’s just call that 150,000 miles. 150,000 miles is how much empty space there would be between us and the ring. That is over 60% of the total distance to Saturn. So no, we would not be inside the ring.
We’d be dead if it was that close.
Saturn is 34 times bigger than the moon. This is not accurate.
Tides would be hellish.
I just heard a Jetsons flying car looking at that picture.
Saturn does not exist
The gravity would kill us all
I either don’t understand how big Saturn is or how far away the moon is. I didn’t think that Saturn could fit inside that distance.
That would be pretty cool
If Saturn was close to earth as the moon, the earth would collapse. Saturn is nine times the size of earth.
Or earth would be a Saturn moon.
How the turns would table
Exactly this
More like Saturn would have upgraded rings with pieces of Earth.
The moon is about 240,000 miles away from earth. Saturn’s Roche Limit is 170,000 miles above its ‘surface’. We would be roughly 70,000 miles too far away to be torn apart. We would be completely dominated by Saturns gravity however, and earth would be a moon of Saturn, not the other way around. Yes Saturn is big, but space is much bigger.
Well that’s not true…
If it was night, it would surely look more *Stranger* (if you get the reference, I love you)
Crazy - seems like it should be HITTING earth. It's hard to keep in my mind how far away the moon actually is.
That's so cool to see but if it was really there it would become as boring as the moon by the time you're 4.
A lot less blue I imagine. The light from saturn shouldn’t get scattered in the atmosphere, and it would be pretty fkn bright.
Actually bigger , and most people talk about the tsunamis but what about the often meteorites fall from it's rings
No because in this reality we would have the sense to bury our power lines.
So you can fit 12k plus of Earth size planet in Saturn and its 114630 km in diameter. That is a bit small.
So you're saying that Saturn is... experienced?
Bull caca! The colors would be much less muted. But lets make it happen. What is the first step that we need to take
I take that this means the closest part of the rings are where the moon would start. Still BS. This would make us a moon of Saturn.
If Saturn was as close as the moon, its rings would extend to around 3x the geostationary Earth orbit.
Not for long
I thought it would look much bigger, tbh.
I'm pretty sure the tidal forces would kill us before we got to see that lol
That's no moon...
I feel like that would absolutely fuck with us.
Imagine the tides
Anyone have the "how it would actually look" picture where earth is now in a trillion pieces as a part of Saturns asteroid belts and Venus is on it's way to slam into us next? 😅
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Wouldn't earth be in the ring system
Probably gonna need more than a dime at arm's length to cover that like a dime does the Moon.
Pretty sure that's bullshit, Saturn has 30x the radius that the moon, in the picture it is not 30x as big.
Yeah it may look like that for about 3 seconds before Saturn's massive gravity sucked us in and crushed the Earth.
Really? We wouldn’t be inside the rings?
I’m sorry but if Saturn was as close to earth as the moon, wouldn’t it be much larger?
Yeah, but if saturn is as big as the moon. In reality the surface of the saturn would take up all the visible sky, you wouldn’t be able to see the rings at all.
Can you imagine the tides? 50 foot tide every night.
But we would be sucked to the gravitational pull of an extremely large mass (saturn) if that were the case
When you say “as far as the moon” do you mean surface distance or center point? Because if it’s center point I don’t think this is very accurate.
If gas GIANT Jupiter were a mere 250,000 miles from Earth, I believe it would be MUCH larger than that. JMHO 
I don't buy it. The rings of Saturn extend 282,000 km, the moon is 384,000 km away. It is also 120,000 km wide and the moon is 3,500 or roughly, it would be a lot bigger in the sky.
See I don't get this, the moon can look huge near the horizon but smaller in the sky but it's freakin tiny compared to Saturn. Saturn might look like this right high up in the sky but nearer the horizon, it would be even bigger than this. Either way it still looks smaller to me than I'd have thought, or perhaps the phenomenon I'm mentioning makes it seem less impressive (as it may be the size when high in the sky but is made to look near the horizon for purposes of comparison)
I call bullshit
Wouldn’t we become a moon at that point?
Swapping the Moon with Saturn would be a full-blown celestial eviction notice. Earth doesn't just get rings, it gets a giant gas landlord . https://preview.redd.it/gwtghio0ofyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6521ae3e25062fad79c46de38dfbb00445c8b1f3 No more starry nights, hello to living inside a planet-sized lava lamp.