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Godhumor

(6,437 posts) Mon Jul 29, 2013, 09:54 PM Jul 2013

We need a moment of science....delicious science! Meet the scientifically accurate Jupiter Cake

From "Bad Astronomy" on Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html

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This cake is not a lie: It’s an actual scientifically rigorous Jupiter cake!

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I was already impressed enough with how she decorated it with the festoons and storms seen in Jupiter’s cloudtops, but then I saw that it’s actually layered based on what we know of the interior of the solar system’s largest planet.

That’s amazing. Apparently she bakes the inner cake first, puts it in the batter of the second layer, bakes that, and so on, until she has a planet. She tried this out first on a hemispherical Earth cake that has to be seen to be believed.

The Earth cake was done on commission as a geological educational tool for schoolkids. The Jupiter cake was made so she could put together a tutorial (coming soon, she promises) on how to create these planetary wonders.
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And definitely check out the link for the Earth cake. What an awesome teaching tool.

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We need a moment of science....delicious science! Meet the scientifically accurate Jupiter Cake (Original Post) Godhumor Jul 2013 OP

This is awesome. nt octoberlib Jul 2013 #1

Next up: Gliese 581G cake Dash87 Jul 2013 #2

I'd like a scoop of icecream with that please! Great idea and yummy looking. JimDandy Jul 2013 #3

An ice cream moon n/t hootinholler Jul 2013 #15

Eur righta... Europa! JimDandy Jul 2013 #16

Or some Mars Bars KamaAina Jul 2013 #26

Yep. Pretty interesting that we have machines from earth JimDandy Jul 2013 #28

Or Milky Way pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #33

Seriously cool. TDale313 Jul 2013 #4

One cool idea would be to adorn the icing with a few small raisins... derby378 Jul 2013 #5

I can totally see that. Godhumor Jul 2013 #9

mmmmm Jupiter cake! neverforget Jul 2013 #6

Can't not love that treestar Jul 2013 #7

That...is cool nadinbrzezinski Jul 2013 #8

edible? Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #10

Awesome teaching tool? Maybe so, but only for one lesson. A Simple Game Jul 2013 #11

You can use it to teach about extinction level events, such as Unicron Godhumor Jul 2013 #12

I was implying that Jupiter may be extinct after the first class. n/t A Simple Game Jul 2013 #13

And Unicron eats planets Godhumor Jul 2013 #14

I knew I should have looked it up, just being lazy. Off to Google now, thanks. A Simple Game Jul 2013 #17

Dibs on the core!! Laffy Kat Jul 2013 #18

K & R Scurrilous Jul 2013 #19

Cake is never a lie NoPasaran Jul 2013 #20

Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, approves (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #21

Good one! CrispyQ Jul 2013 #22

By Jove, that's tasty ! nt eppur_se_muova Jul 2013 #23

So, what about the other planets? ;) reformist2 Jul 2013 #24

So the Intelligent Designer IS a woman after all! Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #25

LOL. Layers of clever! JimDandy Jul 2013 #30

You too, pun-boy! Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #32

Incredible creativity. longship Jul 2013 #27

Nom nom nom shenmue Jul 2013 #29

Awesome cake! Vashta Nerada Jul 2013 #31

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)

1. This is awesome. nt