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This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by V7place(m): 7:28am On Apr 01, 2021
Every day, we look up at the sky and see the sun, moon and stars. The other planets in the Solar System are millions of miles away and most people have never seen them except those with telescopes and those who know that some of the planets can be seen at night , although they look like stars since they are so far away.

So what if the planets were as close to us as the moon is? Well this is Space artist Ron Miller's rendition of what the sky would look like if the planets were just 240,000 miles away just like the moon is. In an email to Rebecca J. Rosen of the theatlantic.com , he described his work.
He began with a picture of the moon over Death Valley in California and then calculated the number of degrees in the sky a given planet would take up at that distance. "For instance," he explained to her over email, "the moon covers just 1/2 a degree. Venus would cover about two degrees, so it would appear about four time larger than the moon."

It is beautiful to say the least.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/what-the-night-sky-would-look-like-if-the-other-planets-were-as-close-as-the-moon/277247/
Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by V7place(m): 7:28am On Apr 01, 2021
What the moon looks like over Death Valley in the California desert.

Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by V7place(m): 7:29am On Apr 01, 2021
Mercury
Venus
Mars

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by V7place(m): 7:30am On Apr 01, 2021
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by V7place(m): 7:30am On Apr 01, 2021
Neptune.

Imagine looking up every night to see these!

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by Nobody: 7:35am On Apr 01, 2021
The Creator of the universe is the greatest Architect of all times.


God is the greatest.

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by illicit(m): 7:35am On Apr 01, 2021
shocked
Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by tico1212(m): 7:37am On Apr 01, 2021
Mother nature at its finest.. Everyday is gonna be a beautiful day.

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by Righteousness2(m): 7:40am On Apr 01, 2021
If we really wanna see a Beautiful world, Just as it was in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, let us do all we should do to Ensure we surrender to JESUS and live for Him.

Let's live Prepared So we will be Qualified for the rapture when He Comes and return with Him for the Millienium reign on Earth.

It is at the Millienium reign on Earth that we will see that Beautiful and Wonderful World.

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by budaatum: 7:40am On Apr 01, 2021
Jupiter and Saturn are so huge that people will cower in fear at the sight of it.

Kind of explains why [url=https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_%28mythology%29#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DJupiter_%28Latin%3A_Iuppiter%29_is%2Cand_his_sister_was_Ceres.?wprov=sfla1]Jupiter was considered a God having taken over from it's mother Saturn[/url].

Anyone bold enough to see Jesus taking over from Yahweh?

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by OlayemiAshraf(m): 7:45am On Apr 01, 2021
Righteousness2:
If we really wanna see a Beautiful world, Just as it was in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, let us do all we should do to Ensure we surrender to JESUS and live for Him.

Let's live Prepared So we will be Qualified for the rapture when He Comes and return with Him for the Millienium reign on Earth.

It is at the Millienium reign on Earth that we will see that Beautiful and Wonderful World.

Keep sending your children to church everyday because of afterlife/paradise that's fully loaded already ..... meanwhile I'm on my way to Elon musk company , to get ticket to mars cool grin

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by Myer(m): 7:46am On Apr 01, 2021
Righteousness2:
If we really wanna see a Beautiful world, Just as it was in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, let us do all we should do to Ensure we surrender to JESUS and live for Him.

Let's live Prepared So we will be Qualified for the rapture when He Comes and return with Him for the Millienium reign on Earth.

It is at the Millienium reign on Earth that we will see that Beautiful and Wonderful World.

Mumu.
Clearly you don't read and understand the Bible.
The supposed new world is nothing like the Garden of Eden.
Cos even from biblical point of view the Garden of Eden no longer exists.

The Garden of Eden was on Earth not on another planet or heaven. And guess what? God was said to destroy the whole earth with a flood including the garden of Eden.

Atkeast read your Bible before coming to spill trash on here.

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Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by BigDawsNet: 8:27am On Apr 01, 2021
Jupiter Has 67 Moons incase you don't know
Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by ObaKlaz: 8:53am On Apr 01, 2021
Looks like you could walk into Jupiter and Saturn literally!
Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by budaatum: 9:33am On Apr 01, 2021
I chuckle often when people ask me if I believe what I read in books. I've written here somewhere that I never received a Biblical education like we Nigerians mostly do, and this thread reminds me of my early education about Gods, which included the planets and Gods from all over the world and kind of makes it impossible to accept any one single God as the only God. I so love Jesus though, It, Jesus that is, being the Logos through which all that humans think is made. Nothing beats the written word as a God once you understand the immense understanding and hence power that they convey. And Jesus did say [url=https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A4&version=KJV]you should not live by only one book or you will become malnourushed[/url].

Anyway, here's some reading to be believed at your own peril. And you might wonder why the same Rome peddled the Bible all around their empire.

Mighty Jupiter was the supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, a god of the sky and heavens and the champion of the Roman people. His symbols were the oak tree and eagle.

The supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, mighty Jupiter was a god of sky and thunder whose symbols were the oak tree and eagle. He ruled as the dominant member of a triumvirate called the Capitoline Triad, which included his consort Juno and daughter Minerva. Jupiter bore many similarities to Zeus, the king of the Greek deities from whom he was adapted.

Unlike Zeus, however, Jupiter was explicitly linked to a specific political entity—Rome. From the great temple erected in his honor on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Jupiter presided over the state and its ever-expanding empire. As a result, the Romans emphasized the worship of Jupiter above all other gods. Jupiter’s blessings were thought to secure their victories and maintain hegemony over their rivals. Worship of Jupiter was formalized by the Roman state over the course of its existence.

What is known of Jupiter’s mythos came not through the narratives in which he plays a role, but from the ways in which his worship was observed by the Romans. Like other figures in Roman mythology, Jupiter was believed to be a critical actor in Roman history. Accordingly, his nature and attributes transformed in order to keep up with broader historical changes in the Roman state. By the end of the first century BCE, Jupiter’s centrality to the state was eclipsed by cults devoted to the worship of deified emperors.

Etymology
In Latin, the name “Jupiter” was usually rendered as Iūpiter or Iuppiter (the character “j” was not a part of ancient Latin alphabet, and was added in the Middle Ages). The name stemmed from two roots. One was the Proto Indo-European word dyeu- (the same root for the name “Zeus”!), meaning “shining thing,” “sky,” or “day” (as in the Latin for day dies); the other was pater, a word shared by Greek and Latin that means “father.” In keeping with these naming conventions, Jupiter was sometimes called Diespiter or Dispiter. Additionally, Zeus was called Zeu Pater in Greek, and Sanskrit speakers used the term Dyaus pitar (father of heavens) to refer to the sky god. This all points an archetypal “sky father” deep in the history of Indo-European-speaking people, whose identity was localized by the cultures that splintered off over time.1

Jupiter was known by a number of epithets. For bringing victory, he was Iuppiter Elicius, or “Jupiter who brings forth,” and for summoning lightning, he was Iuppiter Fulgur, or “lightning Jupiter.” For bringing light and enlightenment to all things, he was Iuppiter Lucetius, or “Jupiter of the light,” as well as Iuppiter Caelestis, or “Jupiter of the heavens.” Above all, he was Iuppiter Optimus Maximus: “Jupiter, the best and greatest.”

Attributes
As the god of the sky, Jupiter commanded lightning, thunder, and storms. Like Zeus, he wielded lightning bolts as weapons. Befitting his role as king of the gods, Jupiter was commonly depicted sitting on a throne and holding a royal scepter and staff.

Rather than taking an active part in battles, however, Jupiter was imagined to oversee and control them. More than any other deity, Jupiter held the fate of the Roman state in the balance. To appease him, Romans offered sacrifice and took sacred oaths in his honor. The faithfulness with which they made sacrificial offerings and kept their oaths informed Jupiter’s bearing. The Romans came to believe that the success of their Mediterranean empire could be attributed to their unique devotion to Jupiter.

By way of the eagle, Jupiter also guided the taking of the auspices, the practice of divination whereby augurs tried to decipher omens and predict the future by observing the flight of birds (words such as “auspicious” and “inauspicious” come from this practice). Because the eagle was Jupiter’s sacred animal, the Romans believed that the bird’s behavior communicated his will. Omens divined through the behavior of eagles were considered to be the most revealing.

Family
Jupiter was the son of Saturn—the god of the sky who preceded Jupiter—and Ops (or Opis), goddess of the earth and growth. His brothers were Neptune, god of the sea, and Pluto, god of the underworld and wealth (metals, the basis of Roman coinage and wealth, were found underground). His sisters included Ceres, a fertility goddess who controlled the growth of grains, Vesta, goddess of hearth and home, and Juno, a maternal goddess associated with marriage, family, domestic tranquility, and the moon.

Jupiter was married to his sister Juno, who served as the Roman counterpart to Hera. Among their children were Mars, the god of war that played a substantial role in the founding of Rome, and Bellona, a goddess of war. Additional children included Vulcan, the god of fire, metalworking, and the forge, and Juventus, a youthful goddess who oversaw the transition from childhood to adulthood and was associated with invigoration and rejuvenation.

Though the Roman mythic corpus lacked the stories of marital strife that so often defined Zeus and Hera’s relationship, it was clear that Jupiter was unfaithful to Juno. Anecdotal tales told of Jupiter’s many infidelities and the children that resulted from them. With Maia, the goddess of earth and fertility (who may have lent her name to the Roman month Maius, or May), Jupiter had Mercury, the messenger god of commerce, merchants, sailing, and travel. With Dione, he sired Venus, goddess of love and sexual desire (although other stories had her emerging from sea foam, like the Greek Aphrodite). With his sister Ceres, Jupiter had Proserpine, an important cultic figure associated with cycles of decay and rebirth, just as Persephone was for the Greeks. Finally, with Metis, whom he raped, Jupiter had Minerva.

Mythology
By and large, Roman mythology lacked a rich narrative tradition. As such, little exists in the way of epic stories explaining the order of the universe and the origins of humankind. This is also true of Jupiter, whose mythos was built not around stories that featured him as a main character, but around the ways that Romans observed their chief deity and explained his place in their storied history.

Origins
Jupiter’s origins were largely identical to the tales of Zeus’ creation. Before Jupiter, Saturn reigned supreme as the god of the sky and the universe. Of course, it had not always been that way. Before Saturn, his father Caelus (meaning “heavens”) ruled, but Saturn overthrew his father and took control of the heavens for himself. After Saturn married Ops and impregnated her, he learned of a prophecy foretelling his downfall at the hands of one of his children. To prevent the usurper from seeing life, he swallowed the first five children that sprang from Ops’ womb. When the last child finally emerged, Ops hid him away and gave Saturn a rock dressed in swaddling instead. An unsuspecting Saturn devoured the rock whole.

What followed was the worst case of indigestion in the history of mythology. Unable to digest the rock, Saturn regurgitated it, along with the five children he had swallowed—Ceres, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, and Vesta. Jupiter, meanwhile, had been plotting his father’s imminent demise. With the help of his brothers and sisters, he defeated Saturn and took control of the cosmos.

Jupiter would later find himself in the same position as his father, Saturn. After raping and impregnating Metis, Jupiter was seized with the fear that his own unborn son might overthrow him. To avoid such a fate, Jupiter swallowed Metis along with her unborn child. Much to Jupiter’s surprise, the child did not die, but continued to grow until it burst from his forehead and into the world. That child was Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, forethought, and strategic warfare; she eventually became a part of the ruling Capitoline Triad.

https://mythopedia.com/roman-mythology/gods/jupiter/
Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by babzo(m): 12:26pm On Apr 01, 2021
This is amazing
Re: This Is What The Sky Would Look Like If The Planets Were Closer To Earth by babzo(m): 12:28pm On Apr 01, 2021
If Jupiter was in our Sky like that, person fit no sleep all night dey look in amazement.

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