Solar System Questions
Solar System Questions
Questions I have about the solar system (some answered)
Why is the the Moon so blotchy? Lava Why are all the blotches on the near side? Did Mars have seas? Yes (briefly?) Was there life on Mars? What's Titan like? Cold, yellow, lakes + rivers (methane) What was Earth like during the Hadean? Is the Oort Cloud a real thing? Why is the Sun's corona so hot? Something about magnets? What are comets like? Precipitous Where's Philae, exactly? What's Pluto like? [Soon!] What's Charon like? Why don't we have in-between-sized planets? What's Ceres like? [Working on it!] Why is Europa so weird-looking and pretty? Ice over a water ocean Why is Io so weird-looking? Sulfur volcanoes (? in the wrong places?) Why are so many Kuiper Belt objects red? What are those spots on Ceres? What's in the seas under Europa's ice? Which of the other moons have seas? Several What are the big white things in Titan's Lakes? What do Jupiter's clouds look like up close? What's all that red stuff in the Great Red Spot? What's pushing the Pioneer Probes? Heat from the RTG What pushes spacecraft slightly during flybys? Where are all the Sun's Neutrinos? Oscillating Why is there so much air on Titan? Why does the Kuiper Belt Stop? Why is Iapetus weird-colored? Why does Iapetus have a belt? What's the deal with Miranda? Did Uranus and Neptune change places? Did the Late Heavy Bombardment happen? Did life start before it? Is Europa covered in ice spikes? Why haven't we built a big inflatable extreme sports complex on the moon?

This comic is a list of questions which Randall has about the Solar System, which at first glance may appear to be things that Randall would like to learn about.
In actuality, most of the questions have not been satisfactorily answered or proven by anyone in the scientific community .
The title text refers to the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup which was won by the USA the day before. The nylon wings and flying may be a reference to two passages from 3001: The Final Odyssey, one where Frank Poole tries out various wings while in an extremely low gravity environment, and one where he remarks while watching Swan Lake that Tchaikovsky could never have imagined a performance where the dancers were actually flying (due to aforementioned low gravity). This is also a reference to the last point on the list, because if we had such a stadium on the moon, maybe it would be possible to use such wings to make very long floating leaps.
Questions I have about the solar system (some answered)
Why is the the Moon so blotchy? Lava Why are all the blotches on the near side? Did Mars have seas? Yes (briefly?) Was there life on Mars? What's Titan like? Cold, yellow, lakes + rivers (methane) What was Earth like during the Hadean? Is the Oort Cloud a real thing? Why is the Sun's corona so hot? Something about magnets? What are comets like? Precipitous Where's Philae, exactly? What's Pluto like? [Soon!] What's Charon like? Why don't we have in-between-sized planets? What's Ceres like? [Working on it!] Why is Europa so weird-looking and pretty? Ice over a water ocean Why is Io so weird-looking? Sulfur volcanoes (? in the wrong places?) Why are so many Kuiper Belt objects red? What are those spots on Ceres? What's in the seas under Europa's ice? Which of the other moons have seas? Several What are the big white things in Titan's Lakes? What do Jupiter's clouds look like up close? What's all that red stuff in the Great Red Spot? What's pushing the Pioneer Probes? Heat from the RTG What pushes spacecraft slightly during flybys? Where are all the Sun's Neutrinos? Oscillating Why is there so much air on Titan? Why does the Kuiper Belt Stop? Why is Iapetus weird-colored? Why does Iapetus have a belt? What's the deal with Miranda? Did Uranus and Neptune change places? Did the Late Heavy Bombardment happen? Did life start before it? Is Europa covered in ice spikes? Why haven't we built a big inflatable extreme sports complex on the moon?
