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r_special_ t1_itp0cl6 wrote

Just a little closer to it’s star and then we’ll slap on the chocolate and graham crackers

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fatandlean t1_itp0kp3 wrote

Please say the inhabitants have hot dog fingers. Please say it. Please please please.

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AnnoyedDuckling t1_itp10wv wrote

Marshmallow planets? My interest in astronomy has increased by 10 to the billionth power!

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bmk37 t1_itp2gfw wrote

Probably a deep space creature on its way to eat us

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TheCaliforniaOp t1_itp6yu2 wrote

Replying to L0ckeandDemosthenes (#215,532)

Oh geez. I was just visualizing that thing hitting our atmosphere and suddenly fwoop fwoop fwoop Stay puft marshmallow men just proliferating everywhere, plummeting with purpose and malignant looks…

And if you imagined that too, then it’s probably going to happen!

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Xkloid t1_itpa0ro wrote

Now we need a chocolate planet, and a graham cracker one. With 3 well planned DART missions we could get them close enough to the sun, smores for everyone!

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KOOLKAT_FTW t1_itpdlzv wrote

I immediately thought of shark boy and lava girl movie haha

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mrmitchs t1_itpgf40 wrote

How did they determine the texture of a distant planet?

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TheRealcebuckets t1_itpgyd7 wrote

It's a marshmallow world in the winter When the snow comes to cover the ground It's time for play, it's a whipped cream day I wait for it the whole year around

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pierlux t1_itphbrd wrote

I couldn’t decode the title: it is called Mashable? Until I remembered mashable.com existed lol mashable is too closed to marshmallow in my head lol

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madrid987 t1_itphj78 wrote

find all sorts of things, but I don't think TEHY can find any clues to alien civilization.

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[deleted] t1_itpk7ie wrote

Replying to mrmitchs (#216,399)

type of UV light coming off of it maybe? only thing i can think of. maybe how fast it spins compared to how close/far it is to its star too? good question

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100GbE t1_itpsjs3 wrote

Replying to bmk37 (#215,265)

This is the most likely theory.

When it arrives, I will eat as much of this deep space marshmallow creature in an attempt to save humanity! Will you join me on my conquest?

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Nomis_Salomis t1_itptp9q wrote

Yoo it rotates perfectly to get the all around cook. Unless it's tidally locked in wich case it's on fire and you ruined it.. Idk I didn't read the article

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Stealfur t1_itpukyb wrote

Replying to ainz-sama619 (#217,197)

These are probably the same scientist that say "we found earth like plants!"

Mean while the plant they found has 3 times earth's gravity, has a liquid nitrogen ocean, 200 hour days, and rains glass every 3 hours. But hey, it's in a spot that could theoretically have water. EARTH-LIKE!

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Unlimitles t1_itpv2da wrote

So I can eat a Planet? I mean...well, we eat our planet all the time I guess......

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AspieAndProud t1_itpwqmh wrote

Did you really think that the Marshmallow Man was from Earth?? 😏💭

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Traumfahrer t1_itpy8pu wrote

That's where the marshmallow went that I threw in the air as a kid.

Can I have it back please?

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Lil-Scrapple-Blossom t1_itpzccd wrote

I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us.

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CharmingRun8606 t1_itpzqs3 wrote

I now have the Orbs 'Little fluffy Clouds' playing in my head.

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FistfulOfShit t1_itq34gn wrote

Replying to phunkydroid (#218,853)

They kinda are when you take into account they are made by 40%... Air? Which is a gas? Which makes the marshmallow low density. Gases and solids can be the same substance at the same temperature, you just have to alter the pressure.

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Stealfur t1_itq6p77 wrote

Replying to patrickSwayzeNU (#219,354)

No I'm not missing context. That is exactly my point. Scientists are calling a planet marshmallow-like despite being not really what a layman's would define as a marshmallow. Just like how define planets as Earth-like despite the fact that a layman's would not call such an inhospitable place "earth-like."

Their definitions do not match up with are pre-conceved expectations because their metric for classification is different from ours.

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greyhoundbuddy t1_itqjgmx wrote

Not surprising, there used to be a whole industry making designer planets. "The home of this industry was the planet Magrathea, where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets—gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes—all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy’s richest men naturally came to expect." - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Karnorkla t1_itqn0wi wrote

Just imagine if it collides with Hot Chocolate Planet!!!

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MrFitit101 t1_itqu2ha wrote

Let's contact the Michelin Man he's probably from there and ask him what's the atmosphere material like. 🤣

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ManyFacedGodxxx t1_itr4cgr wrote

Is it close enough to the Sun we can bring Gram Crackers and Chocolate?

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elidevious t1_its93rc wrote

NASA needs to immediately send a gram cracker and chocolate space probe to discover if there is gooey deliciousness on the planet!

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DontWorryImADr t1_itscqg9 wrote

Replying to Stealfur (#219,464)

Frankly, this is more often the issue of the publishing than the academic source.

What sounds more likely? That an astronomer is so cloistered as to forget what a marshmallow is like? Or that they brought up a new discovery (lowest density, similar to marshmallow vs slightly less than water like Saturn) and the journalist jazzed it up to catch attention?

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MobPsycho50 t1_itsjinb wrote

Times like these I think I'm in a simulation. I'm eating marshmallows right now straight out the bag.

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InAHundredYears t1_itspopo wrote

There are so many reasons to be ready for the move to palliative care, but THIS kind of information will be swamped under the lime jello and leg wraps. So cool. Thanks for posting.

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OkOrdinary5299 t1_ituswwn wrote

I read the article, but I don't understand why marshmallows?

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