+510 It's peculiar that all the planets are generally round. It'd be cool if there were cube planets or cylindrical planets and such, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There probably are..... xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not peculiar at all. Gravity comes from the center of the planet, so it only makes sense that all places on the planet be as close to the origin as possible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is correct and exactly what I thought of when I read this post. However (This just popped into my head, I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason), everything has gravity so why would this cause all planets to be spherical but not all mass?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sure there's a reason as to why they are all perfectly round... inb4 they're not perfectly round. its close enough, asshole

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or shaped like a pizza, shoved inside a turkey, deep fried, and dipped in chocolate.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It makes sense that the planets are roundish, but it would be really cool to have ones that were cool shapes!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If they were cubes, the corners of the cube would have less gravity, being farther away from the center, and it could easily off balance things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

if the planets were cubes then some one would be thinking about how cool it would be to have a planet thats a sphere and a ton of nerds would be saying how impossible that is

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You know I was *just* wondering this same thing the other day! I guess now I have an answer, but it was cool just pondering it. But of course, to paraphrase the late, great astronomer Carl Sagan, the universe is much stranger than we can imagine. There just might be oddly shaped planets out there that function under altered laws of gravity.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It HAS to be round to be a planet.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

weren't there cubed planets on the show "rolie, polie, olie"?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

DUDE!!! I was JUST about to post that, it was the first thing to come to mind when I read this post. If only I didn't take the time to go on youtube and find video proof I would have beaten you to it haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkmaE_QWMQ

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yay! i was right. i googled it. but i still beat you. :p

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe, MAYBE, a planet could be an oval or something, if there were other supermassive objects near the planet, and their orbits were just perfect, then possibly those objects could pull some of the material on the planets away from the core.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yo momma so fat, she got her own gravitational pull

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lameeee

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Um, does anyone remember Rollie Pollie Ollie? His best friend came from the square planet! Duh! Wow I feel stupid for bringing up a little kid show...but that's ok because it was awesome!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Super Mario galaxy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago