| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - If Jupiter, for example, was as close as our moon, the tidal forces (the difference in gravitational pull from one side of a body to the other) would be large enough to tear the Earth apart. (HT to my colleague Dan Watson for whipping together a calculation of the Roche Limit for Earth and Jupiter before I could say boo.) And speaking of unscientific but cool, here is a video of what the sky wou
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