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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (14 children)

There's a giant asteroid that's trying to hit us but is caught in Jupiter's orbit?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Jupiter is our guardian angel. A big asteroid-deflecting gas giant might be a condition for complex life as we know it to evolve.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It's always impressive how perfect our solar system is.

Our range from the sun, our own moon, our magnetosphere, Jupiter...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Wow," says a puddle in a ditch. "This ditch is shaped exactly like me. If it weren't for the ditch's precise shape, I couldn't have formed here. I'm really lucky." The puddle, of course, has never seen a puddle in a different ditch and never realised that puddles come in many shapes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

How clever. The point is this puddle has seen many other ditches, and we've learned that the particulars of our solar system are interesting, if not uncommon.

Spare me the condescension with the storybook reply

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