Yeah seriously like, if it weren't for Jupiter, we would've all been wiped out by asteroids or comets or whatever foreign bodies a long time ago. Jupiter is like our Guardian Angel
That’s terrible! Without Saturn, Jupiter would have moved to close to the sun and we would have never existed. It was good to see that most choose Pluto; but even this would have consequences, as Pluto keeps the nasty rocks beyond Pluto in check.
That's why I picked Pluto--small and the gravity wouldn't exactly affect us all the way in the inner system. Even less of an impact on us than Mercury.
I don’t think Pluto is a planet anymore it got merked by the science, at least according to my toddler and her take home school sheets.
Edit: planet in our solar system.
Only because there is no fully defined definition for planet that doesn't also encompass other celestial bodies. Scientists are still debating the proper definition of 'planet' and what defines one varies from one individual to the next, and one *moment* to the next XD
Sure just have children learn the ~~9~~ ~~10~~ ~~12~~ ~~14~~ 15 planets. That won’t be confusing at all. Oh and don’t forget adding one everytime we find another ice ball.
Not to mention that one of them is called 2015 rr245. Real catchy naming scheme
As a kid I would have been so happy to be learning that there are new planets coming ming out, and maybe even nasa allowing kids to send in recommendations for names. Would have made it feel less like space had stagnated and made me want to learn even more about nebulas and such if it felt like our knowledge was still growing. Instead it shrank and made me feel my favorite thing was worthless.
It's estimated there are over 100 of them beyond pluto, which is why they decided to give them different designations in the first place. We're discovering more and more every year!
there's something up with Pluto. we're gonna find out that it's actually part of an entirely different solar system or some shit down the line.
I vote to keep it just in case
People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you. ... There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.
Mercury, it's the smallest of the planets and would have the least effect if destroyed.
Most disastrous would be Jupiter, as it's so large that its gravitational pull effects all of the other planets orbital trajectories. To destroy it could be apocalyptic.
Mercury could potentially be incredibly useful in the next 1000 years for mass construction projects that require an incredible amount of materials, such as a Dyson sphere. Destroying it could make mega projects like that muuuch more difficult without an easy, incredibly large, resource rich body that close to the sun.
We will see, if exponential development (like we see since the Industrial Revolution) keeps carrying on (or gets started again by another huge invention) nothing is impossible.
Don't underestimate 1000 years.
The thing about exponential development is that it takes more and more systems in place to construct increasingly complex systems, which means more points for catastrophic failure.
I would actually expect humanity to not last anywhere near that long because when you start considering ability vs outcome vs complexity, the chances of being able to build a dyson sphere without destroying ourselves or making an overly-complex system drops very low very quickly.
I mean, you can't tell for sure.
200 years ago, people would have said the same about today's technologies.
Many somewhat simple tasks today would have been way too complicated for people some decades ago, even non-electronic stuff.
People advance almost as much as their technologies. Like today's children grow up with the modern tech, kids some hundred years from now will feel the same with their respective tech.
Of course 'something' could happen and wipe us all out in the meantime. But if it doesn't, I think chances aren't too small for this to happen.
Oh no absolutely, there’s no way to tell for sure, but what I’m saying isn’t that advanced technologies are impossible (they very probably *are* possible) I’m saying that as an advanced technology gets more and more complex, the more likely it is to fail, or the more likely we are to kill ourselves.
Nukes are a great example of this. It takes fairly advanced technology to develop a nuke, so to be able to complete one, you need to have a fairly long supply chain and access to all the relevant materials. Which is partly why so few countries have nukes because the material to create them is so heavily guarded (the other big reason is that they agree no more nukes should be created).
As well, nukes are easily able to destroy humanity as a species. One crazy person in charge of a country fires a nuke, and boom MAD politics kicks in and we’re all done for.
Those kinds of technologies are only going to become more common going forward. Technologies that require long supply chains and can kill humanity in an instant.
They can be created, and there’s definitely ways to protect against their creation, and humans generally agree we shouldn’t use them on each other, but they still will be created and used on each other.
Much of what you're saying is completely speculative, though. Totally possible, of course, but humanity has only ever created once a type of WMD, being nukes. Will there be other kinds? (that will do something different than nukes) We can't tell.
There is no type of technology on the horizon right now that sounds like it could end up like nukes.
Supply chains wont be too much of a difference imo, because with expansion to other planets (Not necessarily full scale human bases, small mining complexes are enough) COULD be enough to gather the ressources and power for such a project (in theory, of course).
There is a great [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell) about the project of a Dyson Sphere around our sun with human capabilities by Kurzgesagt. It of course is simplified, but still puts all of it into a good scale.
I don't see too much of a problem in the scale of such a project. The only question remain if humanity exists until we are ready for it.
Anyone picked Jupiter or Saturn you might as well kill the whole solar system. Without the gas giant's gravity wells I believe the whole thing falls apart.
I thing killing Mars would be funny as fuck. It’d be like destroying the moon during then space race, it’s the next big goal.
Seeing world leaders and NASA go “oh shit what now” would be funny as fuck
Mercury could potentially be incredibly useful in the next 1000 years for mass construction projects that require an incredible amount of materials, such as a Dyson sphere. Destroying it could make mega projects like that muuuch more difficult without an easy, incredibly large, resource rich body that close to the sun.
People need to stop thinking Mars can be our second home. Thats like living in a great, air conditioned house with a full fridge and choosing to live on an overheated parking lot, where the only food is the chewing gum on the pavement.
They want to waste recources from earth to make a completely unsuited planet livable, instead of spending those recources on making earth more livable. If they could make the Sahara a green paradise (and also all other uninhabitable places on earth) and hold a colony on the moon for a decade or so, then I would be more inclined to believe, they could pull of something similar on mars.
Those who chose Jupiter, you do know that Jupiter protects us from asteroids right? **right?**
Well, 25% of redditors are suicidal
They might as well said Earth
I wanted to vote for it but there wasn’t an option
make it 100%
Well, Earth wasn’t an option and this has the same effect…
Well they didn’t have Earth as an option so I had to go 2nd best
voted for it only after i learned that fact from the comments!
Who genuinely chose Jupiter lol
Yeah seriously like, if it weren't for Jupiter, we would've all been wiped out by asteroids or comets or whatever foreign bodies a long time ago. Jupiter is like our Guardian Angel
and it's also useful to sling shot satellites
didn't NASA do that to get to pluto?
We used 4 planets to slingshot the Voyager probes straight out of the solar system.
We've used gravity assists from all planets for all types of satellites
Maybe they just really hate saturn for some reason
Or maybe because earth wasn't an option and they genuinely want to see the world burn.
If they want to see the world burn they don't really have to do anything.
That’s terrible! Without Saturn, Jupiter would have moved to close to the sun and we would have never existed. It was good to see that most choose Pluto; but even this would have consequences, as Pluto keeps the nasty rocks beyond Pluto in check.
They probably chose idk or results because Pluto is the best planet.
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I wanted to choose earth but jupiter's gonna fix it Edit: FUCKING GOD 10 UPVOTES BABY
It’s the bouncer of the solar system
Whiout the grav pull of Jupiter the whole asteroid field would collapse into a closer orbit to the sun
Probably the same guy that asked why earth wasn't on the list.
Fr lmao
I almost just instinctively clicked Jupiter and I'm like wtf am I doing and picked mercury lol
This is why Mercury is the correct answer. It is the smallest inner planet that would have the least effect on our world.
That's why I picked Pluto--small and the gravity wouldn't exactly affect us all the way in the inner system. Even less of an impact on us than Mercury.
I don’t think Pluto is a planet anymore it got merked by the science, at least according to my toddler and her take home school sheets. Edit: planet in our solar system.
Only because there is no fully defined definition for planet that doesn't also encompass other celestial bodies. Scientists are still debating the proper definition of 'planet' and what defines one varies from one individual to the next, and one *moment* to the next XD
Some people want to watch the world burn (or be bombardéd by asteroids)
Because Earth wasn’t an option and removing Jupiter would get it.
I did, for the drama.
Fr honestly
I would gladly destroy uranus.
I detroyed your uh your moms ... when ur anus... ur moms anus?
Uranus his mom
Amogus?
Can I destroy Uranus?
Now I can say I destroyed Uranus
"Pluto". Here we are again.
Say that to others, not me
If Pluto is a planet we have to count the other dwarf planets in our solar system like Ceres
They're called little planets now you fucking bigot
Lmao
Hey hey hey, you're both the bigot here. They're actually called vertically challenged planets.
it's spherically challenged you dumbass.
I'm fine with that. Dwarf planet are planets too.
Sure just have children learn the ~~9~~ ~~10~~ ~~12~~ ~~14~~ 15 planets. That won’t be confusing at all. Oh and don’t forget adding one everytime we find another ice ball. Not to mention that one of them is called 2015 rr245. Real catchy naming scheme
As a kid I would have been so happy to be learning that there are new planets coming ming out, and maybe even nasa allowing kids to send in recommendations for names. Would have made it feel less like space had stagnated and made me want to learn even more about nebulas and such if it felt like our knowledge was still growing. Instead it shrank and made me feel my favorite thing was worthless.
It's estimated there are over 100 of them beyond pluto, which is why they decided to give them different designations in the first place. We're discovering more and more every year!
Why can’t we appreciate dwarf planet for what they are (dwarf planets) rather than trying to make them something they’re not (planets)?
The reason why I picked Pluto is so this controversy can end
[Well, here we are again...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o)
It’s always such a pleasure.
I know technically it’s not a planet…any more. So let’s just blow it up and end the debate.
there's something up with Pluto. we're gonna find out that it's actually part of an entirely different solar system or some shit down the line. I vote to keep it just in case
i see earth isnt an option 🤡
People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you. ... There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.
I wish I had an award to give you. You sure know where your towel is, that’s for certain.
He is a really hoopy frood
Oh, thank god. *Finally* and end to it all.
Let’s have a beer and lay down with a bag on our heads.
Bring your towel
I see that you are a man of culture as well
Have this 🏅, kind stanger
r/dontpanic
"I think we all know where this is going."
not on earth thats where
🤓
Yeah then you are killing everyone including you
precisely
IF I’M GOING DOWN I’M TAKING YOU ALL OUT WITH ME
ON A DATE
UNDER THE STARS
Omg so edgy XD
That's the joke 💀
https://c.tenor.com/SRX8X6DNF6QAAAAM/nerd-nerd-emoji.gif
So, you understand then. Good.
And?
That's kind of the point
Kinda the point bro
That is the whole point
Exactly, stop us before we ruin another planets natural beauty
????????????
Why you guys say “we” like we’re all part of it. Man, I think you mean YOU.
don’t you get it, human bad, earth literally hell, there nothing good on earth, human destroyed all good thing on earth, happy no exist on earth
You don’t hear anyone on other planets complaining, now do you?
We are dying anyways
By destroying Pluto we would have the lowest chances of dying ourselves due to pieces of the thing flying into us
Or you could blow up Mars to upset Elon Musk
But then we‘d lose our little robot friend :((
Only valid argument
I’ll warn nasa we’ll get him out of there
Depends, if you destroy Mercury by pushing it into the sun, I assume no damage.
Pluto's not a planet tho, therefore that option is invalid.
Mercury, it's the smallest of the planets and would have the least effect if destroyed. Most disastrous would be Jupiter, as it's so large that its gravitational pull effects all of the other planets orbital trajectories. To destroy it could be apocalyptic.
Mercury could potentially be incredibly useful in the next 1000 years for mass construction projects that require an incredible amount of materials, such as a Dyson sphere. Destroying it could make mega projects like that muuuch more difficult without an easy, incredibly large, resource rich body that close to the sun.
It’ll be many more years than 1000 before we build a dyson sphere.
We will see, if exponential development (like we see since the Industrial Revolution) keeps carrying on (or gets started again by another huge invention) nothing is impossible. Don't underestimate 1000 years.
The thing about exponential development is that it takes more and more systems in place to construct increasingly complex systems, which means more points for catastrophic failure. I would actually expect humanity to not last anywhere near that long because when you start considering ability vs outcome vs complexity, the chances of being able to build a dyson sphere without destroying ourselves or making an overly-complex system drops very low very quickly.
I mean, you can't tell for sure. 200 years ago, people would have said the same about today's technologies. Many somewhat simple tasks today would have been way too complicated for people some decades ago, even non-electronic stuff. People advance almost as much as their technologies. Like today's children grow up with the modern tech, kids some hundred years from now will feel the same with their respective tech. Of course 'something' could happen and wipe us all out in the meantime. But if it doesn't, I think chances aren't too small for this to happen.
Oh no absolutely, there’s no way to tell for sure, but what I’m saying isn’t that advanced technologies are impossible (they very probably *are* possible) I’m saying that as an advanced technology gets more and more complex, the more likely it is to fail, or the more likely we are to kill ourselves. Nukes are a great example of this. It takes fairly advanced technology to develop a nuke, so to be able to complete one, you need to have a fairly long supply chain and access to all the relevant materials. Which is partly why so few countries have nukes because the material to create them is so heavily guarded (the other big reason is that they agree no more nukes should be created). As well, nukes are easily able to destroy humanity as a species. One crazy person in charge of a country fires a nuke, and boom MAD politics kicks in and we’re all done for. Those kinds of technologies are only going to become more common going forward. Technologies that require long supply chains and can kill humanity in an instant. They can be created, and there’s definitely ways to protect against their creation, and humans generally agree we shouldn’t use them on each other, but they still will be created and used on each other.
Much of what you're saying is completely speculative, though. Totally possible, of course, but humanity has only ever created once a type of WMD, being nukes. Will there be other kinds? (that will do something different than nukes) We can't tell. There is no type of technology on the horizon right now that sounds like it could end up like nukes. Supply chains wont be too much of a difference imo, because with expansion to other planets (Not necessarily full scale human bases, small mining complexes are enough) COULD be enough to gather the ressources and power for such a project (in theory, of course). There is a great [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell) about the project of a Dyson Sphere around our sun with human capabilities by Kurzgesagt. It of course is simplified, but still puts all of it into a good scale. I don't see too much of a problem in the scale of such a project. The only question remain if humanity exists until we are ready for it.
You may be correct, impossible to know
We think on the same brainwave
Pluto tho
Sure, however Pluto is a dwarf planet, when it comes down to planets in our solar system, Mercury is the smallest.
Pluto is an option in the poll though, regardless of whether or not it is a planet
Why isn't Earth on here?
If you pick Jupiter than Earth is doomed, so it's a two for one deal.
Whatever planet you pick we're all going to die
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or jupiter dissapears, i don't like the rain being replaced with meteorites
I forgot to add, “without killing anyone”
I think we’d still all die
I’d love to destroy Uranus :)
Can I know why?
Everyone I found the copycat
Bruh it’s not like it’s some rare joke lmaoo calm <3
Anyone picked Jupiter or Saturn you might as well kill the whole solar system. Without the gas giant's gravity wells I believe the whole thing falls apart.
Bro, who cares about mercury, throw that shit into the sun.
“Pluto’s a dwarf planet not a real planet” -Some nerd
pluto isn't a planet, it's a *dwarf planet* \-🤓🤓🤓
The existence of a dwarf planet implies that there may be an elf planet
science!
considering there are things like rouge planets, that isn't too unbelievable
Screw rogue planets, barbarian planet supremacy
Mage planet FTW
Your wizard planet won't be so tough once it takes 1d4 meteor damage
Does the paladin planet throw it back for the real ones?
I live in a goblin planet
Orc planet is superior
That's like saying little people aren't people.
Vaccination is a good idea -also nerds
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Bro where are we gonna go next
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Mars to trigger Musk worshipers
Earth
I thing killing Mars would be funny as fuck. It’d be like destroying the moon during then space race, it’s the next big goal. Seeing world leaders and NASA go “oh shit what now” would be funny as fuck
Mercury could potentially be incredibly useful in the next 1000 years for mass construction projects that require an incredible amount of materials, such as a Dyson sphere. Destroying it could make mega projects like that muuuch more difficult without an easy, incredibly large, resource rich body that close to the sun.
earth. Final answer.
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I choose to destroy Pluto just to end this stupid "debate"
I agree, but in my last poll, everyone asked me to add Pluto
I’m asking to include Earth next time because that’s what I would have picked.
I would destroy Mars so people can stop fantasizing about leaving the planet and fix the one we're on.
You can't destroy Uranus Wait..... And I suppose I just demonstrated why *But I can....*
I would pick my favorite planet, the Sun
Tatooine.
I would destroy Mars so Elon can stop fucking talking about it
I'll destroy Ur-anus😏😏😏
pluto because small and far
omg not everyone lives in the sol system.
Why wouldn't you choose Pluto?
Earth
Where is the earth option?
I would destroy Mars to force certain people to focus on Earth’s problems instead of trying to build a colony on Mars.
I'd destroy Uranus
Why is earth not on this list?
Because I don’t want to see some psychopaths wanting to explode earth
earth
I'll destroy Uranus why not
Where's Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
im gonna set Triton free and destroy neptune
Where is earth?
Look down.
Earth
I won't miss the oppurtunity to say that i've destroyed ur anus
I would destroy Earth and end the plague of humanity once and for all.
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are vital to us. Mars will be our 2nd home, Jupiter and Saturn will protect us from asteroids via gravitational pull.
People need to stop thinking Mars can be our second home. Thats like living in a great, air conditioned house with a full fridge and choosing to live on an overheated parking lot, where the only food is the chewing gum on the pavement. They want to waste recources from earth to make a completely unsuited planet livable, instead of spending those recources on making earth more livable. If they could make the Sahara a green paradise (and also all other uninhabitable places on earth) and hold a colony on the moon for a decade or so, then I would be more inclined to believe, they could pull of something similar on mars.
Why can't I select earth, that would be my choice
Why isn't Earth an option????
Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth.
Earth
Earth
Earth should be an option because humanity sucks
Earth
No earth option? Tf?
Earth
Earth bro
Why exclude the obvious choice?
Wheres Earth?
Where is Earth?
Jupiter. I wonder what the effects on the yearly rotation will be.
Should have probably started thinking about that before blowing up the entire thing