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25 Apr 2014, 2:15 am

Which would you want to see every night,..or day?


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25 Apr 2014, 3:12 am

I really like the view I have now. I have nothing to compare it to other than a concept, or idea, of what one of these moons would look like from here. The grass really isn't always greener..



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25 Apr 2014, 5:37 am

Hey, that was cool. I wouldn't mind seeing Jupiter's Galilean Moons in the sky. 8)


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25 Apr 2014, 6:04 am

Ganymede. It is big so it would look pretty impressive on the night sky, it is so big it could have been a planet. It has a oxygen atmosphere and a magnetosphere similar to Earths. It is also supposed to have water under surface so we could try to populate it. I wouldn't mind moving to a moon.



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25 Apr 2014, 8:36 am

Should Ganymede replace our Moon, what would happen to the tides?



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25 Apr 2014, 10:52 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
Should Ganymede replace our Moon, what would happen to the tides?


Maybe the article is intended to inspire that dialogue amongst people.



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27 Apr 2014, 5:59 pm

Ganymede. but what about something else that were several times the size of our moon but with the same mass? that might light up the night sky somewhat better.



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27 Apr 2014, 6:03 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Ganymede. but what about something else that were several times the size of our moon but with the same mass? that might light up the night sky somewhat better.


There may be things lurking in the night that I don't really want to see. The night is my time. The darker, the better.



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27 Apr 2014, 6:04 pm

khaoz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Ganymede. but what about something else that were several times the size of our moon but with the same mass? that might light up the night sky somewhat better.


There may be things lurking in the night that I don't really want to see. The night is my time. The darker, the better.

unless you trip on something hiding in the murky.



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28 Apr 2014, 8:59 am

I have heard it said that if Earth had more than one Moon we wouldn't have developed the original theory of Earth being the center of the solar system.


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28 Apr 2014, 12:26 pm

Eccles_the_Mighty wrote:
I have heard it said that if Earth had more than one Moon we wouldn't have developed the original theory of Earth being the center of the solar system.

so our one moon stunted our technological growth, maybe likely?