Moon is coldest known place in the solar system?

newscientist.com/article/dn17810-moon-is-coldest-known-place-in-the-solar-system/

Is this true? Isn't there any asteroid, comet or whatever, colder than the Moon?

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Why is the moon so fucking beautiful? What's the evolutionary basis for this?

It looks a bit like a skull, and all humans are in love with death.

>What's the evolutionary basis for this?
Moons choose their sexual partners based on attractiveness, and are incapable of rape, so only the most attractive moons were able to reproduce.

Define "cold" in the context of "the solar system."

"Cold" is a relative measure of temperature. "The Solar System" is the Solar System. "Cold" in the context of the Solar System means "relatively lower temperature, as compared with other parts of the Solar System".

Hope that helps!

How do you compare Mercury to Venus in terms of temperature?

By using the mean, or you could even compare the ranges of temperature tho of course then you'd be comparing matrices not single variables.

No. No near close.
It's warmer than UrAnus.
Objects beyond Neptune as Pluto (planet?) Are way more far away from sun or other Stars so are much colder than UrAnus.
The sun rays barely reach UrAnus.

Even if moons were able to rape, they'd get more attractive with time. Moon rapists would choose the most attractive moons to rape.

Moon rape is about power, it has nothing to do with attractiveness, just opportunity.

Uh I'm pretty sure the inside of a tank of liquid nitrogen is colder, and we have lots of those on earth.

In fact the coldest place in the known universe is on Earth. Suck my dick moon

Rude.

>What's the evolutionary basis for this?
What's the evolutionary basis for what?

>newscientist.com/article/dn17810-moon-is-coldest-known-place-in-the-solar-system/

Dumb article. There is nothing special about Lula that would prevent that kind of cold sun-free valley from existing on Pluto or the plutoids. Comparing that to Pluto's day side is just stupid trolling on the part of the magazine.

he's right, that was pretty rude.

Ranges don't form a totally ordered set, and "mean" is ill-defined.

Grow up, the moon is a consenting adult

There might be, but not that we know of

What if you had a moon made of ice and crashed it into a moon made of fire?

Uranus is actually warmer than people think, the inside is quite hot.

It's a meme you dip

Go ahead and take your forced meme back to /pol/

Even if it's not a meme, it could still be a valid question. Maybe if he phrased it like, "What's the evolutionary advantage for humans to find the Moon beautiful?"

Actually not a bad question. Did all the people who thought the Moon was ugly die out for some reason? Or do they still love among us?

The coldest place in the solar system is in laboratories on Earth. We can get things down to a billionth of a degree away from absolute zero, invent new fucking states of matter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_equilibrium_temperature

It's talking about this:
Why does everyone have to be a contrarian here all the time? You know what they mean.

>"What's the evolutionary advantage for humans to find the Moon beautiful?"

Why the fuck would you assume there is one?

>Why does everyone have to be a contrarian here all the time? You know what they mean.
Badly worded questions call for unrigorous answers. That's why we ask you details. "The mean value of 1 and 2" may have infinitely many values including [math]\frac32[/math], [math]\sqrt2[/math], [math]\frac23[/math], [math]\sqrt5[/math], 1, 2 and [math]\sqrt[3]9[/math].

* [math]\sqrt{\frac52}[/math] and [math]\sqrt[3]{\frac92}[/math]

What does mean have to do with planetary equilibrium temperature? Planetary equilibrium temperature has a very specific definition and it's always the thing that's used whenever you read about a planet's temperature in our solar system.

>it's always the thing that's used whenever you read about a planet's temperature in our solar system
No, it's not.
nasa.gov/planetmercury
>Temperatures: - 279 degrees Fahrenheit on the side away from the sun; 801 degrees Fahrenheit on the side facing the sun.

I dunno. Why do we do any of the things we do? A whole bunch of things can be chalked up to evolution, even if it doesn't seem like it at first.