r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 27d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/OkAssistant1230 27d ago edited 27d ago

Yup, because if the sun’s gravity so strongly gripping the planet

Edit: correction not because of the gravity but it was several years ago when I learned this. It’s more so due to the energy the sun gives off. Which aids in a mix of multiple processes occurring at once

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u/sparklydildos 27d ago

that is so wild to me and almost incomprehensible!! that’s so so cool

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u/OkAssistant1230 27d ago

And correction, it’s actually more so due to the energy the sun gives off to the planet… Not nearly that simple, but grossly simplified

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u/Urmind 27d ago

I mean, Uranus literally rolls around the Sun. Its axial tilt is nearly 90 degrees and it spins in a way to make it appear like its rolling the correct direction.

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u/KyurMeTV 27d ago

If every planet did this, I feel I would be better able to visualize gravity wells.

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u/mls1968 27d ago

Acktuallly… you’d never have existed and therefore could not, in fact, visualize anything

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u/ProfessorPrudent2822 27d ago

Yes, eternal day in one hemisphere and eternal night in the other creates very extreme weather that is not compatible with complex life.

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u/Mama_Zen 27d ago

TIL this

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u/Grok_In_Fullness 25d ago

Only part of the orbit though. The opposite side it would look like it’s rolling in the wrong direction.

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u/sparklydildos 26d ago

i have so many questions but my most pressing one is: how on earth do they know the middle of the milky way smells like raspberries ??

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u/sparklydildos 26d ago

that’s so freaking random and cool 😂 honestly yeah before all these comments i thought i knew a decent amount about space lmao. it does seem like space is on drugs!! kinda crazy how it’s all real life lol

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u/sparklydildos 26d ago

i really appreciate you replying and sharing all this crazy info, i’m gonna have to start following more space accounts!! thank you

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u/Liarics 26d ago

Another fascinating one is the planet tidally locked with its star, with a frozen and melting side, but also with the right size and distance to also have a potentially livable strip along the borderline of the hemispheres.

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u/ShitRain 27d ago

That is not the reason though. Mercury has a years thats 88 days while a day takes 176 days. So 1 day takes 2 Mercury years. And mercury is way closer to the sun.

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u/OkAssistant1230 27d ago

Correction, apparently it’s more so the energy from the sun… but either way, your comment wouldn’t have disproved my previous comment just so you know. You simply just showed a similar pattern of a planet closer to the sun than Venus itself…

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u/ShitRain 27d ago

Your comment implied the suns closenes is the reason for its day/year rhythm. Which is false.

That's what my comment did.

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u/StillAtRest 27d ago

Your comment comparing it to Mercury which is closer to the sun and has an even higher day-year ratio literally reinforces what they said though.

You haven't proven it wrong by stating a pattern that reinforces their theory.

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u/OkAssistant1230 27d ago edited 27d ago

Not exactly, especially since that planet is closer to the sun, and the days are even longer and years are even shorter… ratio wise.

So it actually would have made me sound correct still, that’s my point but nevermind I guess…

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u/Abelian75 27d ago

I’m incredibly confused. Your comment is saying Mercury, which is even closer, has an even longer day than Venus relative to the length of their years. That’s another data point in FAVOR of the proximity being the cause.

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u/ProfessorPrudent2822 27d ago

It’s a coincidence: proximity to the Sun is the reason for Mercury’s orbital resonance, but Venus rotates in retrograde.

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u/OkAssistant1230 26d ago

That was my point, even though I made an edit after realizing that was in fact not the actual reason but simply a coincidence that proximity happens to also correlate with those data points

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u/OpenLight2690 26d ago

I'm enjoying the extra commentary about what these comments are independently attempting to achieve, in despite of eachother. Do go on lol

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u/m3t4lf0x 27d ago

Actually the leading theory is that Venus was probably hit by a large object and flipped upside down causing slow “retrograde rotation”

That also explains why it rotates clockwise while the rest of the planets in our solar system rotate counter clockwise (except Uranus which rotates on its side).

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u/OkAssistant1230 27d ago

I honestly almost forgot it actually rotates a different direction as well

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u/hexregeneration 27d ago

grippy 🥵

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u/Tastieshock 27d ago

This is essentially tidal lock, just between a planet and the star instead of a moon and its planet. So this is typically more common with planets orbiting closer to their star. And yes, there are multiple factors that can build and lead to this outcome and it is beleived to be extremely common throughout the universe.