solarsystem.nasa.govPosted Oct 2, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC
So if we dropped a $4.99 Costco rotisserie chicken on Venus, it would heat extremely evenly?
The inside would be raw. It'd be like putting it in a 870F oven. If you cook the inside till done you'll have charred the outside a certain distance deep.
You are right. In this case, we would need to sell it for $3.99 instead of $4.99 and put a 20% off sticker on it. Maybe a COVID safe sticker too.
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We can make things that run at 870F. The problem is the sulfuric acid will eat through them.
Yeah but like, have we asked it politely to stop eating it yet?
Here's another interesting fact: since it was discovered in 1930, Pluto hasn't completed one Revolution of the Sun -- it takes 248 Earth years to do that.
But it's not a planet so who cares? Right? Everyone?
Its still a planet. A dwarf planet
Sunsets would be like 1-2 (earth) days long I would assume, kind of cool!
1 earth day on Venus would be like 15 minutes here, for something like a sunset
Some days on Earth seem that long.
How would a calendar even work on that planet...
I find people tend to just make units more convenient, so we'd probably just come up with some unit that more accurately represents the human sleep cycle.
It'd be interesting because at 117 days for a full cycle you could almost relocate to the other side of the earth every 4 months and just live in sunlight 24/7. Build buildings that can do full blackout. People could have alternating shifts and still work in the day regardless ... Could make for a very efficient society if it was hospitable
And still 6 mths there would go faster than 6 months in melbourne covid lockdown
Laughs in Brisbane.
Is that the same for Mercury or did Trey and Tom get that wrong?
Same.
Rivers run deep.
The days that are met with onlyness
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Isn’t the theory that is got hit early on and it’s spin was reversed? I seem to remember something like that.
Imagine how long 2020 must've felt there...
Still shorter than a day in 2020
Not actually true in what people would think of as a day. A Venus year is something like 1.7 Venus Days long. This is because what we think of as a day is not one rotation but how long it takes for the Sun to return to the same position in the sky. What astronomers think of as a day though is one rotation.
This is why if I asked you how long a day on Earth is you wouldn't answer 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds but instead 24 hours.
The Earth rotates once in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds but it takes the Sun 24 hours to return to the same position in the sky.
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Oh come on. Does anyone count a day on Earth as only being 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds. No, of course not.
Yes, we technically do — it’s why there’s a leap year.
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Also of interest is that it's day night cycle is shorter (117 earth days) than a full rotation because it rotates "backwards", or opposite it's orbital rotation around the sun.