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[–] [email protected] 89 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If moons were cats, most planets would be the typical cat dad/mum, and Jupiter would be that crazy old neighbour with too many of them.

...wait a minute considering how our Moon developed, even moon adoption is cat-like! You don't say "I want a moon", the moon just hits you and say "you know what, I'm living here now!"

[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Not shown: Jupiter occasionally tearing one apart and strewing its innards all around or abducting random passerbys and eating them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's okay, must of their kids are adopted anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, Luna is the only moon of same stone and lava as it's parent planet. Charon, too, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The verdict is still out on the formation of Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon. But yes, it may be mostly composed of ejecta from Earth after it collided and merged with another protoplanet.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I was going to say, just like the god it's named after, but I guess it was Saturn who ate babies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who amongst us haven't snacked on some infant from time to time? Amirite, fellow atheists?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd expect that more from Catholics. They do the whole "body of Christ," thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I had a good reply to this comment, but an anonymous mod deleted it for being "adult content/inappropriate".

Apparently it's fine to joke about literally consuming the flesh of infants, but alluding in a lighthearted and completely SFW way to the fact that the catholic church is amongst other things a factory that produces pedophiles is verboten 🤦

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

checks instance

checks modlog

yea that tracks, lemmy.world mods are ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I managed to read that before it was removed. No sense of humor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No sense of humor

...the mod, right? 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Of course. Lol.

They're not actually violating "free speech,' it just feels like it, cause we're used to having to deal with massive corporations, doing a fairly effective job at trying to control everything, especially the free flow of information.

Bit of a shame really. I'm pretty certain that most of our users would support the right to free speech, but I also suspect that most, like me, don't want to have to host their own instance so that rogue mods can't run roughshod over our ability to communicate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The corporate memphis version is somehow more disturbing than the original.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Mars's kids are named Fear and Terror. Not the best parent material there.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, he is the god of war. He wishes his kids to grow up strong and respected like him. Don't be so harsh on the guy, he's doing his best you know.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know. This could be hilarious as a premise. I’m thinking a monte python style comedy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's called Life of Brian, they just weren't aware that Yahweh was originally a God of War

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought he was a storm god.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not an expert. I read that EL was a God of War, which explains the first several books of the Bible

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"The moons of Fear and Terror" sounds like an amazing crossover between DOOM, Fear & Hunger and Darkest Dungeon

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Appropriately enough Fear (Phobos) is slowly getting closer to Mars and will eventually crash into it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just 50 million years or so to go!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Dawn of the first day

438,300,000,000 hours remain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Other planets have moons. Mars has a pair of hamsters. So hamsters named Fear and Terror.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don’t forget Saturn’s 145 moons!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But it's got rings for them to play with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Because Beyoncé likes Saturn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Jupiter has rings as well, they're just puny compared to Saturn's

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A bitch, I don't think so, but a cow, a bear, a goat (maybe) and probably a lot more are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

"I got too many dang moons"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Now are those moon little humans with limbs and a face or are those moon embryos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Confirmed as in paternity test?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Jerry springer style.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I would take one it it came along but the process of getting my first moon... not again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Does that mean Kamoʻoalewa is a bastard child?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

More an abandoned one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

QI | How Many Moons Does Earth Have?

Edit oh wait that was just one time when they asked.

Here's a collection:

How Many Moons

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I loved QI with steven fry, it's not the same now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jupiter and Saturn are laughing their "G"asses off at us. Look at that stupid little pea-sized earth with its single puny moon. And they can't even get a lander on it upright!!!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

: ) I could've made a 'uranus' joke also, but that'd be going a bit far.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Lol, those moons better watch out. They've gone over the number 10! They'll be reclassified as minor moons at any moment now.

(Yes, I still think reclassifying Pluto as a minor planet is scientific bullshit.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

None if the Martian moons are round.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Someone redo this comic with Mars's tiny potatoes dwarfed by Moon's glorious, massive tide-inducing, rotation-slowing hugeness.

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