Excuse me neighbor, can I borrow a cup of linear momentum?
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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Aim for Jupiter and miss with style
Flyover country.
The Midwest of the Solar System.
Mhhm yummy 😋 :3
You know... I've seen a lot of your comments and they always throw me because my cats name is also Una. I think I've said that. But none more than that one lmfao
Love the Lemmy community recognising each other. ❤️
I'm new to posting in this community but due to me making (at this point) tens of thousands of posts across multiple accounts? I tend to recognize names pretty regularly.
It just feels like the internet of old. It’s awesome.
It's one of the reasons that I've stuck around for sure. This place feels like Reddit did back when I joined like... 15 years ago or something. Just hoping we don't develop one of those stupid fucking mottos like "The narwhal bacons at midnight" or some shit
Would noon work better for you?
The Lemmings Walk at Noon
This is why you're employee of the month.
Do I get a plaque?
Here's your sign.
(If you're old like I, you might think this is a Bill Engvall reference, and it is, but as compensation I offer you the cover of Time magazine.)
edit: Initially conflated URL and alt text fields.
LOVE IT
I wake a good 7 hours earlier than that, but I'm in a different timezone, it's probably afternoon your time, and definitely afternoon on someone's time
I’m kind of useless in the morning. Can we pencil it in for, like, 3?
Tell you what, let's just do it next week when you've had the opportunity to rest.
Balatro players: +15 chips and +2 mult to flushes
No AR, guy us.
Is this what I think it is? Or is it an eyepatch?
sling
Oh! That does make sense now you say it.
Normal people rarely see the above image.
When you look at Jupiter with the naked eye, you see a slightly brighter dot. The only way to tell it's not a star is that it changes position relative to them from day to day.
If you look at it with a good pair of binoculars, you can see that the dot seems to be slightly bigger than other dots. You still can't see the red spot.
If you look at it through a telescope with a 10" objective and 100x magnification, you can definitely make out the red spot and you can make out that the rest of the planet has some texture.
An image that clear and crisp takes some very expensive equipment.
I once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it's only something in movies, it doesn't really exist.
To that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer
Jupiter, I did a song. You ain't got one.
Jupiter: [ exists ]
NASA: Imma shoot that bad boy like Bart Simpson
Need to replace that with a picture of Venus.
Jupiter is a net
Nasa uses Jupiter for gravity assists for most outer planet missions though, so the joke is pretty apt.
Has there ever been a mission where they slingshot around Jupiter without using Venus? Venus is how they get to the outer planets.
It's free ~~real estate~~ delta V!