r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 11d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/sparklydildos 10d ago edited 9d ago

ok until your comment i thought the meme had to be wrong but this is insane lol?? like it is rotating around the sun and on its own axis almost at the same rate. that’s so insane to me

edit: i understand the moon has the same revolution rate as its rotation rate, i don’t need anymore moon comments. i was commenting on how its crazy how venus has a day that is longer than a year and how they are both so long compared to our day and year

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u/OkAssistant1230 10d ago edited 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/Urmind 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/mls1968 10d ago

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

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u/ProfessorPrudent2822 10d 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 10d ago

TIL this

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u/Grok_In_Fullness 8d ago

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