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Space/Science » in reply to scaling Titan/Saturn mass ratio to 5xJupiter mass

Solar system analogs are a mistake

Didn't people here and elsewhere learn anything from our earlier extrapolation errors? Remember Sagan's bogus computer models of other solar systemd from the 80s? All were based on variations of our solar system. When REAL planets were found, hot super Jovians and eccentric orbits proliferated.

Since we really do not KNOW how stars form vs Brown dwarfs vs planets, it's extreme hubris to use our solar system's gas giant to satellite ratios or any other such metrics to make statemets about satellites of water zone super jovians.

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