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Saturn's rings are around 150 mio. years old.

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago

Now THAT is a shower thought.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

all the dino dust was ejected into space and settled around saturn

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I have to know if this picture already existed or if you just made that because it's perfect

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's not mine (unfortunately). I don't have an original bone in my body. See these bones? They're actually someone else's.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Why are you using someone else's bones and why can I see your bones?!?!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Clearly you can see it's an old picture, from the ages when people actually drew/photoshopped new things, before memes were 100% made up of Drake and Wojak variations.

/boomerposting

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This is that Charlie Kelley kind of logic.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I don't know enough about planetary rings and dinosaurs to dispute it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

But what about Denim T-Rex?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Is dinosaur law just a precursor to bird law?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

more of a TIL than a shower thought

doesn’t make me any less cool

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Interesting thought, but the rings may be older than that, and they may be reoccurring. That's just an estimate based on a range calculated in a recent study.

https://www.universetoday.com/161444/saturns-rings-are-much-younger-than-the-planet/

There's a lot more learning to do.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

If they liked it, then they should have put a ring on it.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

blows my mind every time I come across this trivia. thank you for sharing

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

So the dinosaurs all died of disappointment?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Nah, most of them moved to Saturn after they got married.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What blows my mind even more is that, when dinosaurs existed*, the solar system was on the other side of our galaxy.

(*) Dinos were around for a really long time, so it was largely during the Cretaceous when the solar system was on the opposite side.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I also often calculate things like that in the shower

this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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