▲ 332 ▼ Rain on Other Worlds (mander.xyz) submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children) They ran out of Greek gods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) naw. they just stopped naming the children after the first couple rounds of olympians. why name them when there's a few hundred a month? breed like rabbits, Olympians. probably out of boredom. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) I know that Olympians fuck like rabbits, but they only meet up once every four years. Can't be that massive of a population increase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) You really think Zeus is gonna have that long of a dry spell? Never mind Aphrodite or Dionysus? I bet Hera is a closet freak, too. (Zeus just doesn't like the whips.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago From what I can tell, they've all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven't seen those guys around in a long time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Assuming they started off as two of them 2000 years ago and Fibonacci was right about rabbit breeding habits (and Olympians mature in 4 years time and don't menopause before the age of 2000). We'd have 139423224561697880139724382870407283950070256587697307264108962948325571622863290691557658876222521294125 (500th element of the Fibonacci sequence (2000 years / 4 years = 500 Olympian breeding seasons). There'd be plenty of them to name planets after. permalink fedilink source parent [–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Then use words, or some blob of syllables of some kind of description. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) naw. they just stopped naming the children after the first couple rounds of olympians. why name them when there's a few hundred a month? breed like rabbits, Olympians. probably out of boredom. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) I know that Olympians fuck like rabbits, but they only meet up once every four years. Can't be that massive of a population increase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) You really think Zeus is gonna have that long of a dry spell? Never mind Aphrodite or Dionysus? I bet Hera is a closet freak, too. (Zeus just doesn't like the whips.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago From what I can tell, they've all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven't seen those guys around in a long time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Assuming they started off as two of them 2000 years ago and Fibonacci was right about rabbit breeding habits (and Olympians mature in 4 years time and don't menopause before the age of 2000). We'd have 139423224561697880139724382870407283950070256587697307264108962948325571622863290691557658876222521294125 (500th element of the Fibonacci sequence (2000 years / 4 years = 500 Olympian breeding seasons). There'd be plenty of them to name planets after. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) I know that Olympians fuck like rabbits, but they only meet up once every four years. Can't be that massive of a population increase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) You really think Zeus is gonna have that long of a dry spell? Never mind Aphrodite or Dionysus? I bet Hera is a closet freak, too. (Zeus just doesn't like the whips.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago From what I can tell, they've all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven't seen those guys around in a long time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Assuming they started off as two of them 2000 years ago and Fibonacci was right about rabbit breeding habits (and Olympians mature in 4 years time and don't menopause before the age of 2000). We'd have 139423224561697880139724382870407283950070256587697307264108962948325571622863290691557658876222521294125 (500th element of the Fibonacci sequence (2000 years / 4 years = 500 Olympian breeding seasons). There'd be plenty of them to name planets after. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) You really think Zeus is gonna have that long of a dry spell? Never mind Aphrodite or Dionysus? I bet Hera is a closet freak, too. (Zeus just doesn't like the whips.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago From what I can tell, they've all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven't seen those guys around in a long time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago From what I can tell, they've all had a several thousand years dry spell. Haven't seen those guys around in a long time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Assuming they started off as two of them 2000 years ago and Fibonacci was right about rabbit breeding habits (and Olympians mature in 4 years time and don't menopause before the age of 2000). We'd have 139423224561697880139724382870407283950070256587697307264108962948325571622863290691557658876222521294125 (500th element of the Fibonacci sequence (2000 years / 4 years = 500 Olympian breeding seasons). There'd be plenty of them to name planets after. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Then use words, or some blob of syllables of some kind of description. permalink fedilink source parent
