All the land in our solar system
All the land in our solar system
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Oh, I get why Jupiter our biggest planet is not here. Because its surface is made from gas, not land
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Being a fan of The Expanse this is really cool. It really puts the size of a lot of the moons and dwarf planets from the series into perspective. Ganymede for example, was used by pregnant mothers in the outer-system because it was large enough to still have an active core and thus a magnetosphere. Shielding the surface from a lot of radiation. Their main food crops were grown there for the same reason.
Io, Callisto, Europa, Eris, Titan, Ceres, and a few others all make appearances too. It's an amazing series, for those who haven't read/seen it, whether you read the books or watch the show.
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It’s generally a great series but it reminds me of Wheel of Time, in that some of the main characters are incredibly stupid and don’t seem to get any better. James Holden in particular is one whose stupidity is hard to withstand sometimes. I ended up not being able to finish both of those because of that.
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I guess it's easy to forget just how much smaller Mars is until comparisons like this help put it in perspective.
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mars' surface area is approximately as big as earth's land surface area, i.e. everything excluding oceans. since oceans cover a large part of earth's surface, there's that.
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I can't readily recall the Earth's actual sq. km surface area, and can't remember ever having heard the figure for Mars. Time to drop into Wikipedia and take a gander, I think.
EDIT: I'll be damned, TIL that the Earth has an area of 510.06 106 km², but Mars' is only 144.37 106 km², only about 1⁄3 the size (28.3%).
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The circumference is roughly 40,000 kilometers. The original definition for a meter was such that 10,000 kilometers was the distance from the equator to the poles (so a quarter of the circumference). They got the math slightly wrong and didn't want to people to think the process was wrong so they didn't correct it. I forget the actual circumference but that is close enough for very rough estimates.
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Pebble
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Damm Earth is big
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There really is an xkcd for everything.
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Thank you! It looked very XKCD to me, so I was surprised when the source link wasn't to that.
Edit: oops... Meant to reply to the comment with the xkcd link.
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It is xkcd
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Apparently I didn't reply to the comment giving the xkcd link like I intended...
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It is xkcd but my link was elsewhere with some details. It does credit xkcd.
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TIL Ganymede is bigger than Mercury?
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Hard to say with the irregular shape, but they're close.
What really gets me is how small Mars is relative to Earth and Venus.
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Pangea is bigger than anyone thought. Cool.
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I guess fact it's mostly gas means I don't have to ask, "where's Uranus?"
But if we're counting the liquid parts of Earth, shouldn't we include the squashy centers of Uranus and Jupiter?
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They aren't necessarily counting the oceans, but rather the ocean floor.
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The "liquid parts" of earth are just a thin puddle over basically the same solid shell covering the rest of the planet, relatively speaking. Uranus does have a small rocky core (so probably should have been included tbh), but Jupiter's core is just liquid and doesn't even have a clear boundary between the gas and the core.
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Yes, I was wondering the same question. Jupiter surface would definitely dwarf anything else
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Jupiter has no surface, just a gradually increasing density. When you sink in the ocean, you eventually reach the ocean floor. On Jupiter you just keep sinking until your surroundings match your density.
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i guess liquid surfaces count as liquid because organisms can live there (cyanobacteria can swim by buoyancy). in gas that's not possible.
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What's the unlabeled one?
/s
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A mostly harmless area
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Nice. Good entry.
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They're not noble enough to be on this map
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Welp, there's my next TTRPG map.
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Source states:
All Human Skin
Where?
E: found it. Tiny spot northeast of Australia.
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Why does this look like bootleg Tamriel sans the high elf island I can't remember the name of fuck off Sheogorath it is not the Shivering Isles.
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Why does earth include the oceans though?
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Imagine excluding land underneath puddles
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The atmosphere must be intense (incredibly dense, solid on the rocky surface) as I assume all the gas planets are included too, just all over the place :D.
Unless it's a flattt world and the excess gas just fell off.
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Let's just say, that's not ocean surrounding it :p
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Haha, that works too - a not too seriously sci sci-fi (the kind where your shouldn't question the science part bcs it's one plot hole after another) would make up a space race that takes rocks in a solar system & floats them on a gas giant like an island.
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No, the gas giants are excluded.
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Sorry, my, bad, should have added the "/s".
\ It's just a petty attempt at a joke, or exploring the absurd (despite that they are obviously excluded) for the fun of it.
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Made me think of lake mobius from hunter x hunter :3 that's way bigger tho
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So all planets are covered in oceans? Brilliant map for sure! /s
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The next step would be to map the heights as well, but I bet that looks like a mess. Plus... I mean, what do you even set as sea level? Do you start counting from Earth's deepest point and go from there? Highest point? Average?
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I think less can be more and it should've bern plain and just say "Earth"
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I dont really agree with counting the oceans but not counting the gaseous areas of the gas giants, but i guess it getd messy with how to portray it. Portray it as a liquid form of the gases so you have definite volume? Remove the liquids from the equation (but that would create MORE land on earth)? I dont know. It just seems like removing them from the equation creats an extremely small picture, but maybe that's the point.
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Doesn’t Jupiter have a diamond core lol
I guess after searching, that is why we sent Juno to Jupiter?