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Jupe's just carrying extra moons so that it could lend us if our moon goes rogue. Pretty simple science stuff.🫠

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The higher Moons Per Solar System (or MPSS), the more powerful the solar system is. Basic stuff.

More like a big broom vs a shield. Jupiters gravity could direct a rock towards Earth just as well it could divert one.

We're interested in seeing what's in our solar system because we're curious about it. Some solar system discoveries may have important things to tell us about the formation of the Earth and the development of life on it and beyond, but frankly the number of small moons of Jupiter isn't "important", except that it satisfies our curiosity.

Which is the most important thing of all.

And more important people/deities/whatever get their names in the sky, which is kind of nice I guess.

Jupites is a gas giant. Makes it pretty unlikely to develop and sustain life.

You should maybe google what makes a planet liveable first, and you'll notice that the similarities of Jupiter and Earth end pretty much at both having at least one moon and they orbit a star like Sol.

Our moon is crucial for Earth's life because of its relatively large size. It stabilizes Earth's rotation and provides a tide cycle. Both of which are crucial for life in terms of stability.

Jupiter and all the other gas giants have so many because they're more like remnants of their creation. Not much different than the asteroid belts. Just spare parts so to speak from the formation of the planets. So they don't do much for life. Not to mention the environment around Jupiter is incredibly hostile so even if the moons were providing something its too an extreme an environment.

Under the surface of the major moon however, well.. that's a different story.

It would actually be cool to live on a Jupiter moon and see Jupiter in the sky covering 1/4 of it.

I know diatances are way too big and Jupiter is still small seen from the moons but still

For Jupiter the moons aren’t a factor in why it’s not habitable. A far more glaring and problematic issue is the fact that there is no solid surface. Jupiter is a gaseous planet. Even if there were a surface to stand on, the pressure of the atmosphere would crush you and everything else instantaneously.

One importance of finding more moons is that each one has some possibility of having life. Another is that any discovery has the possibility of revealing some new fact about out universe that we didn’t previously know. Maybe new elements? Who knows. That’s the point of looking.

I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for here. The moons just exist because of the physical realities of gravitational influence.

There's no reason for it beyond that.

Earth isn't livable because of the moon. The moon just helps. It doesn't mean that any planet with a moon can support life.

Moons are important to solar system astronomers. The more moons a planet has, the more graduate students have a topic for their PhD studies. You wouldn't want a bunch of unemployed astronomers, would you?

Actually, as far as I know, having a gas giant the size of Jupiter in our solar system is a somewhat rare phenomenon in the galaxy. Scientists have posited that it may make our solar system more likely to sustain life because large asteroids, and other celestial bodies that could easily lead to extinction-level events, are caught in Jupiter's gravity well. Jupiter is the shield for the inner part of the solar system.

Edit: typo in the final sentence.

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Yes, I'm happy to be corrected about Shotwell, but I share the same impression as an outsider watching the past few years.

This wasn't a press release.

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If anyone is interested, Grady at Practical Engineering (YT) has a really good video about refractory concrete.

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Careful, though. The army of folks with chips on their shoulders have it in for SpaceX regardless of who's doing what. The folks who will hold a party the moment anything goes wrong, even if it fundamentally means a delay for space exploration in general and NASA in particular.

I guess the logic is pretty tight: Concrete will probably be scoured, but they're going to spend some time installing the deluge system anyway, so why not do both that and the concrete repairs at the same time?

Also not expecting more than about 4 seconds of blast. There's always the risk that the concrete will fly up and cause a really bad problem.

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So you already pulled the numbers. Now take a minute to think about the question. You should be able to get to the answer on your own relatively easily

Can we have an age requirement to ask questions here. We'll start at having graduated 5th grade.