Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

It feels like yesterday we mourned the loss of our beloved planet. It was hard to imagine losing another beautiful solar system buddy, but the good news is we don't have to, because the goofballs who tried to prove Jupiter doesn't exist are 100 percent wrong.

A meme shows a soda can exploding in a vacuum. There is a claim that if a soda can survive space, there is no way a planet made of gas could hold together.

This simple experiment, in which a soda can is exposed to a vacuum environment, demonstrates the impossibility of a vacuum environment without a container.

NASA tells us that gaseous planets cannot exist.

It is worth asking if the meme is facetious. It is difficult to ignore the possibility that Flat Earth Research is over the top.

Many commenters seem to be taking the meme seriously, and there are many people who still think the Earth is flat. Let's go there.

It's pretty clear that gas giants exist. You can see them with the naked eye. NASA defines a gas giant as a large planet mostly composed of hydrogen or helium. Like Jupiter and Saturn, these planets don't have hard surfaces and instead feature swirling gas around a solid core.

The experiment doesn't debunk NASA's research because it is likening a gas giant to a soda can. USA Today reported that Knittle, an Earth and planetary sciences professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said aluminum cans are pressurized to hold in the carbon dioxide. The strength of the can and outside atmospheric pressure hold the soda in the can, but when dropped into a vacuum the pressure differential is great that the can breaks.

It takes a big object to hold together planets that have soda cans.

Knittle told the pub that the gravity from the planet counteracts the pressure between outer space and the planet.

Our very own Sun is a giant ball of burning gas and seems to hold its shape just fine. Every star does the same thing.

Jupiter-deniers, we're not falling for your tricks. Tell the government that we want Pluto back.

NASA scientists predict settlements on the moons of Jupiter.

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