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Yeah, I saw that this morning myself. Two quick reactions:
1. Scientific American, lol, fuck 'em. The "Scientific" in the name is as meaningful as commentary on Ukraine in an RNZ news article. I'm not bitter, you're bitter.
2. Our planetary system is quasi-ordered - Earth is bigger than Mars, Jupiter is bigger than Saturn, Uranus is bigger than Neptune, and we've got a massive chaotic pile of jumbled shit smack in the middle of our system. In fact the absence of a mention in the article of our asteroid belt seems to me to be a glaring omission.
3. We would be so fucked without Jupiter. The inner planets would get smashed by meteor/comet/asteroid impacts every second year if Jupiter's gravity well were not on base defense for us.
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