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United States 12/05/2012 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm sure many of you saw this on spacewather.com, but wanted to repost here to share: [ link to spaceweather.com] "Jupiter is so bright," he says, "that I caught it reflecting from a spoon filled with vegetable oil inside by my cast iron skillet."
Bonus physics: What if you did compress Jupiter to the size of a teaspoon? It would become a black hole. The Schwarzschild Radius of Jupiter is approximately 3 meters. Any object squeezed into a space smaller than its Schwarzschild Radius becomes a black hole. Luckily for Lucena, the planet in his kitchen was just a reflection.So cool! |