Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.
Michio Kaku
Related If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our so... CARRIE NUGENT We haven't found an exact solar system analog, which would have a circular orbit and a mass closer t... PAUL BUTLER If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he
would soon be out of thunderbolts.
[... OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We ar... RUSTY SCHWEICKART It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directl... RUSTY SCHWEICKART If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology. MADDIE HASSON The favored theory proposes that planets were created from material accreting around a star. Around ... BOHDAN PACZYNSKI O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have
passed! DAVID TUVILL Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move abou... FRITZ ZWICKY With 'Rage,' it was a little bit different because this was going to be the public's fir... JOHN CARMACK If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves. MATT LANTER If a gigantic asteroid were barreling toward impact with our planet, you can bet there would be at l... DAVID HORSEY We would not find any human species outside our solar system, unless the same environment like earth... JOEY LAWSIN Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and ... JAMES SALTER An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't... ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Because this belt has more asteroids than ours, collisions are larger and more frequent, which is wh... GEORGE RIEKE After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---... ARTHUR C. CLARKE If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drillin... DEBBIE HARRY If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable. CARRIE FISHER Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life... ANTHONY BOURDAIN Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, a... BIBLE I guess, if it wasn't for Jordan, there would be no LeBron or Kobe who plays like that. BEN SIMMONS I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I w... NATALIE MASSENET Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat tha... SETH SHOSTAK If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. MARILYN MANSON If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable. LARRY DAVID Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it ... ASTRO TELLER Without the early-termination clause, people would be gaming the system. People would walk away with... JOE FARREN I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone. YOUNG BUCK As of now it has been analyzed and estimated that our Sun’s mass consists of around 99.9% of the t... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter. BILL DRUMMOND Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of thi... J. R. SMITH I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificen... JACK LONDON I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and i... MEGHAN O'ROURKE I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you. AARTI SEQUEIRA The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth. ARTHUR C. CLARKE I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us. IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn... KIESZA The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot. ALAN STERN My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. JOHN DARNIELLE At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as yo... CHAD KROEGER If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone. PETER FALK If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood. WENDY MASS Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be... SCOTT KAUPIN Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thou... LESLIE MOONVES We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ... BEN E. KING If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything w... TRENT REZNOR If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it... DREE HEMINGWAY If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to f... STEPHEN LEACOCK I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking... CHER [I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no
mathematicians on earth. DANIEL BERNOULLI There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarc... MARK TWAIN If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Ros... STEVEN ADLER For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke... JEAN NIDETCH We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masse... COLIN ANGLE What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-pow... ELON MUSK Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shu... KATHE KOJA Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will ... MICHIO KAKU If the moon and the earth didn't pull away from and draw back too each other, in a cosmic tango, we ... KAMAAL DAKARI CONNOLLY The main aurora oval on Jupiter we think should dim when the solar wind blows harder, but what we se... JONATHAN NICHOLS If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader,... CAITLYN JENNER The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Witho... SETH SHOSTAK I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in... KRISTEN STEWART Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. OVID If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional indiv... THOMAS MOORE I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent... JACK LONDON Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. ... LAUREN HAMMOND It wasn't like I wanted to be the next Marc Andreessen, but it would be cool to be in the same p... JAWED KARIM Sometimes (the exposure) was more than once a day. They would come out of the fields covered. Their ... ANDREW YAFFA If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there was... PHIL COLLINS I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and g... RANDY JOHNSON In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone... SETH SHOSTAK Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. PETER BENCHLEY It would be much better if we sat down together and came up with a personnel system. DON HALE We would ultimately like to have a warning system throughout the solar system so we could know when ... ALEX YOUNG Changing the asteroid's velocity changes the time when the asteroid crosses Earth's orbit. A... CARRIE NUGENT The market would probably be weaker without these concerns. CHRISTOPHER BELLEW I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and me... KATHERINE HEIGL It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continenta... EUGENIE CLARK I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. LAURA DERN We could be open before the end of '06. We certainly would hope if it goes past that they would be o... MADISON JOBE We think comets make up a huge amount of stuff out in the solar system. We'd like to know the minera... LAWRENCE GROSSMAN No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale... SOPHIE HANNAH If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist. TAMARA MELLON It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of... DANNY ELFMAN If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. ELON MUSK If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't h... DREW SIDORA Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo... JACKIE COLLINS I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would pro... JANE GREEN While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing a... ERWIN MCMANUS When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by aste... RUSTY SCHWEICKART I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability... LUKE BRYAN If Congress had not restored the funding, the opportunity for reaching the last unvisited planet in ... LOUIS FRIEDMAN I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans... MINNIE PEARL The further away from Earth you get, the less plausible it is to talk about the similarities of life... ALFRED MCEWEN If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant. JANET JACKSON
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