Andrew Griffith, who has been in charge of the space sector since November, also mistook Jupiter for Saturn.
  • Nougat@kbin.social
    16·
    10 months ago

    Worse still:

    Andrew Griffith, who has been in charge of the space sector since November, also mistook Jupiter for Saturn.

    You know, Saturn, famous for its massive rings.

    • FMT99@lemmy.world
      14·
      10 months ago

      To be fair that’s an easier mistake to make than confusing Mars and the frickin Sun

    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      10 months ago

      In fairness it seems like it was displayed without rings, but if you’re into space then you should be able to see the difference as saturn is far more featureless (at least from the pictures we have), but if the projection on the sphere is lower resolution and the red spot is on the other side I could see them being confused I guess

      Equally though you could not make a fool of yourself but pointing out things which should be fairly obvious as the minor popularity gains of “knows common knowledge facts about topics they should be an expert in” are far outweighed by any chance of “looks like a buffoon for not even knowing common knowledge facts about things they should be an expert in”