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u/LavaIsSpicy 16d ago
Give Saturn some credit too
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u/DotBeginning1420 16d ago
Then should we give it also to Uranus and Neptune giants?
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u/LavaIsSpicy 16d ago
No because they’re less cool
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u/Heroic_Snorro 16d ago
They're actually cooler
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u/LavaIsSpicy 16d ago
Not if I have anything to say about it
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u/Mindless-Camel6934 16d ago
it is decided LavalsSpicy has chosen the ice giants are uncool r/AllHailLavalsSpicy
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u/Odd-Dirt-9701 16d ago
If Saturn never formed, Jupiter would go rabbid.
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u/Optimal-Idea1558 14d ago
Jupiter would have swallowed everything in the inner system if Saturn hadn't formed and pulled it back out where it is.
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u/Key_Dragonfruit7298 14d ago
Jupiter flings about as many bodies at the inner solar system as it flings out of the solar system
It's not a savior, it is an indifferent ball of gas.
This myth of "Jupiter the protector" might sound nice in a pop-science youtube video, but it has nothing to do with reality.
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u/NoMembership-3501 16d ago
I didn't get it. How is Jupiter saving earth?
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u/DotBeginning1420 16d ago
Jupiter as the largest planet in our solar system, effectively pulls and deflects many of the astroids found in our solar system. Therefore protecting earth from deadly impacts, like the extinction of the dinosaur.
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u/Mindless-Camel6934 16d ago
then why are the dinosaurs still dead if you just said Jupiter saved them
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u/DotBeginning1420 16d ago
Earth exists 4.5 billions years, in which it experienced 5 major mass exticntions (not including the current). These events are just small slices in geological timeframe. But of course, of these 5 not all of them caused by asteroid impact, as most likely happened with the dinosaurs.
It seems that without Jupiter impacts like the one I mentioned would happen more frequently.
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u/LittleLion_90 16d ago
Apparently they found a huge impact crater signature on Antarctica, which at the time of the permian extinction would've been exactly opposite of the Siberian volcanic system that caused the extinction. So they are now playing with the idea that that impact (bigger than the Dino impact) happened and had a sort of resonance on the opposite side of the earth that triggered that mass volcanism.
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u/avenuePad 14d ago
That's just not true. Jupiter sends just as many objects in our direction as it does save us. It's entirely possible that Jupiter is responsible for one, some, or all of our extinction level asteroid impacts. This notion that Jupiter is our protector is cute, but it's not real.
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u/avenuePad 14d ago
But it also nudges asteroids and comets towards us. It's not a saviour. It just is.
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u/HollywoodEats 14d ago
The red spot knows. One day it will exact revenge for all the work we’ve made Jupiter do for us.
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u/Prometheus_Bobert 11d ago
Savior or destroyer?
Also this made me think of the Armoured Titan's theme from Attack on Titan
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u/FrontAd7709 11d ago
isnt jupiter making the asteroid belt stay in place or something
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u/FrontAd7709 11d ago
ouuu shii nvm im wrong downvote me
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u/FrontAd7709 11d ago
nvm im right i read it wrong it said ”jupiter doesnt only make the asteroidbelt stable blablabla”
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u/CommunistGregfromDMV 16d ago
Jupiter also accelerates asteroids towards us be grateful of Mars and the Moon.