Jupiter

I don't understand, sometimes FJ thumbs these responses, and other times everyone is like "OMG SOO UNORIGNAALSJDKLFJKLZKDSZF"

Make up your mind...

we'd be sucked into jupiters gravity and either be its moon or be sucked inside....

Do you know what a meteor is?

maybe if the earth was stationary,
the earth could easily have a stable orb around jupiter for the same reason that the sun doesn't just pull the earth straight into it

well no because we move as we orbit. just like Jupiters actual moons

I think he's trying to say that we would basically become a moon of Jupiter.

ill give him the benefit of the doubt

You.. do know Jupiter has like.. the strongest gravitational pull in our solar system, besides the Sun, right?

If we were this close to Jupiter, Earth would most likely be pulled in and torn apart unless we were in a perfect orbit.. even then the gravitational force would tear apart the planet enough to kill off all life.

doesn't matter what state the matter is in, gravity is determined by mass and distance, juipiter doesn't pull us in now, but at the distance that the moon is, it would because it's so much more massive than earth

Well, the sun is mostly gas and nuclear reactions so it wouldn't pull us in either.
Clearly.

saturn is theorized to be 95% gas not jupiter

As long as Jupiter's gravitational field did not rip Earth apart an orbit around the planet is very possible. This is because the gravitational potential energy would be converted to kinetic energy speeding "satellite" Earth up until the centripetal force balanced with the immense gravity field of Jupiter.

This is how most moons are formed.

Maybe it would not rip earth apart, but life like on current earth is sadly impossible.

We're a very unique solar system and a very unique planet. Just in the right spot to make life bloom and evolve. Earth magnetic field protects us from solar wind(we would be a barren planet like Mars if not for magnetic field) and any way further or closer to the sun and the life in current form would be doomed.

This is true to have the formation of gas giants it must form outside the "frost line" which is the imaginary line where gas can readily accumulate to a planetary seed. The frost line is way past the zone where liquid water is available so life could not occur under normal circumstances.

But theoretically speaking a gas giant could be knocked into the area life can occur by a very large impact letting there be the tiny possibility of a "satellite" with the capability of life.

Also gas giants, such as Jupiter, have a very large magnetic field because they have a layer of inner gas that acts as a metallic fluid that creates the magnetic field even larger and stronger than our own field, if we could see Jupiter's magnetic field normally it would look the size of the moon. This would actually protect us more from solar winds and electromagnetic radiation that have striped Mars of its surface.

I am not saying that there is a planet with life orbiting a gas giant I am saying that it is plausible.

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That's gonna feel awkward when you finish fapping and close the porn to see this wallpaper.

Ganymede's the biggest. It's bigger than Pluto and Mercury but it's not as big as Earth.

Yes it would.

But I don't wanna die by the extreme gravity!

Why would it affect time in any way?

It was a joke.

my bad :)

Gravity effects time in a very small way.

Oh I thought it was only speed that could potentially affect time

Speed and gravity.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

That's quite interesting, i thought maybe it just made the components of the clock weigh more causing them to move slightly slower

Nope, Thats why if someone were to head into a black hole, on the outside it would appear as if the person has completely frozen at the Event Horizon. They would only get darker and darker as the light you would use to see them is being pulled into the black hole. (my quick theory on how they get darker. I have no idea why.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0cVdPHOIxw

And this is probably why I shouldn't have dropped out of A-level physics

It was a joke.

It's still true.

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well i was gonna say the same thing but you beat me too it, lol.

definitely destroying our planet and all life on it*

unless we rotate around it, and become its moon, which will kinda suck

But it's a gas planet, how would we collide?

It's not ALL gas.

Only the very, very center is liquid, the rest of the mass is gas

what if we were one of jupiters moons then? but in the location we are now... jus sayin

than imagine the weather changes. It wouldn't be only 4 seasons, it would probably be 10-20 seasons.

Don't forget about dat radiation Jupiter produces.

If the supreme being that swaps the Moon and Jupiter also gives us sufficient speed to get a stable orbit around Jupiter then our atmosphere stays here. In fact, even if we do not get an orbit and simply crash into Jupiter, we will keep our atmosphere.

For the same reason, that an astronaut in a spacestation orbiting the earth, is not pulled against the wall of the space station.

We would also not be tidally locked, instead, we get... a pretty mean tide. You know how, today, the water rises and falls? - Jupiter is so powerful that the water will rise and fall much further, and the ground will too :(

The International space station has an insignificant gravity well. Even humans have their own gravity, as negligible as it is.

All of Jupiter's moons are in orbital decay and are being drawn closer and closer to Jupiter, eventually to be devoured like all of Jupiter's other moons.

Jupiter's gravity would tidally lock the Earth. It isn't up for debate, it's fact. Jupiter's gravity is too immense. Just as our Moon is tidally locked to us, we'd be tidally locked to Jupiter.

Even if we did maintain our atmosphere (which we most likely wouldn't), the gravitational pull of Jupiter would be Earth an uninhabitable volcanic mess. Our atmosphere would become extremely dense in C02 and S02. The Earth would turn in to another Venus.

I missed tidal lock in your first post, my apologies, I just saw 'would not rotate'.

Our atmosphere would be maintained, and I already covered the volcanic point when I said the current tides of water will also apply to land.

I have no idea what you're talking about.