If the Earth's radius were 1.5 ld, then frogs could jump to space freely. Since it's smaller, they can't - so they must be on Earth's surface except for during their brief jumps. So no need to search all the way to Voyager One.
Are you suggesting that beyond the golden records, there was a secret project to stow-away an immortal jumping frog in a frog-space-suit to ensure the escape of a jumping frog beyond Earth's JFR?
Can I please come live in your universe? Ours isn't going so well.
Wouldn't Jupiter, or the Sun have a larger r_{jf} than Earth though? Surely we can only hold this principle true in the "sphere of influence" of the Earth.
The Parker Solar Probe didn't report any sightings of frogs on the sun's surface and confirmed that solar flares, despite appearances, are not actually the paths of jumping frogs.
Title text: Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.
This is a huge timesave. If you're looking for a frog, you can immediately eliminate like 99.9997% of the solar system.
...is beyond 1.5 light-days radius?
Given that Voyager One is approaching one light-day, that's insane
If the Earth's radius were 1.5 ld, then frogs could jump to space freely. Since it's smaller, they can't - so they must be on Earth's surface except for during their brief jumps. So no need to search all the way to Voyager One.
Ah. I have made a foolish error, by quite a few orders of magnitude.
Are you suggesting that beyond the golden records, there was a secret project to stow-away an immortal jumping frog in a frog-space-suit to ensure the escape of a jumping frog beyond Earth's JFR?
Can I please come live in your universe? Ours isn't going so well.
New conspiracy: The Epstein List can be found in a secret hard drive hidden on Voyager One.
It was an immortal snail. Some scientist was paid a lot to put it there - but then it teleported. It's still coming for me.
Wouldn't Jupiter, or the Sun have a larger r_{jf} than Earth though? Surely we can only hold this principle true in the "sphere of influence" of the Earth.
The Parker Solar Probe didn't report any sightings of frogs on the sun's surface and confirmed that solar flares, despite appearances, are not actually the paths of jumping frogs.
If you don't need a champion jumping frog we can probably extend that to 100%
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Title text: Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.
Don't get it? explain xkcd
I dunno, man. Call me skeptical, but I'm gonna need a reference to published literature for that hover text...
I don't think we've exhausted all of our options when it comes to looking for frogs in every other corner of the solar system. I want to believe.
The Ice Frogs of Europa
The fire frogs of Io
Counterpoint to hovertext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Frog_Otolith
Man, the early days of spaceflight were weird...
Since Earth is not the only gravity well in the solar system, this prediction is a bit of a leap.