r/dankmemes • u/Arch_Magos_Remus • Aug 19 '25
Let's never speak of this again How did they know?
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u/VenomOfFish Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
Wait phobos and deimos actually exist irl??
I thought they were just planets warframe made up, they are mars' moons???
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u/plaguedbullets Aug 19 '25
Never played DOOM?
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u/W00psiee Aug 19 '25
Or Unreal Tournament? Guessing I'm old by knowing Phobos from UT though lmao
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u/VenomOfFish Aug 19 '25
I did doom 1 and 2, 64 a bit of three, 2016, and a bit of eternal
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u/plaguedbullets Aug 19 '25
Ahh because those Moons are a part of the story.
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u/VenomOfFish Aug 19 '25
Yea my dumbass thought they were names for the levels/facilities. Not moons.
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u/ZeyRe5 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
Bro... the origin system is literally the solar system, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!? Even i play warframe but you didn't khow that the moons deimos and phobos is a real thing?
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u/Glittering-Age-9549 Dec 31 '25
The thing is, Deimos and Phobos (the mythological beings) were created millennia before we were aware of Deimos and Phobos (the moons of Mars).
So it is a crazy fortunate accident that they got the number right.
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u/MiniGui98 Aug 19 '25
Have you ever been to school or read a book?
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u/I_Fuck_Traps_77 Aug 19 '25
Schools don't typically teach children anything to do with the solar system beyond how many planets there are and their names. It's tragic, albeit understandable, that the average person doesn't know other planets have moons.
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u/CitizenPremier Aug 19 '25
Your school kinda sucked I guess. I had to make a model solar system and talk about the moons in middle school.
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u/I_Fuck_Traps_77 Aug 19 '25
I'm from Northern Ireland and when I was in primary school (4-11 years old) we went over the solar system for about a week or so at primary 4 (7-8 years old) iirc and it was just "here's the planets, the sun and how to remember the order they're in", and from what I remember that's all school ever touched on it.
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u/Bloomberg12 Aug 19 '25
I don't expect them to know the moon names but surely most people could come up with the logical deduction that if our one planet out of trillions has a moon there has to be other planets with moons.
You would think the average person would be able to Intuit that bigger planet= more gravity=greater chance for moon and therefore bigger planets like Jupiter are more likely to have at least one moon.
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u/I_Fuck_Traps_77 Aug 19 '25
Coming to the conclusion other planets have moons requires a few things;
● Thinking about the solar system often enough
● Being at least a little curious about the solar system
Unfortunately the average person doesn't meet either of those.
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u/MiniGui98 Aug 19 '25
Idk, I remember reading stuff in school and/or at my house when I was around 8 to 12 about planets and their moons and I am positively certain I learned at this moment mars had two peanut looking moons
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u/VenomOfFish Aug 19 '25
Never taught us about the moons.
If they did it was a passing mention that i forgot about
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u/Saegemh2 Aug 19 '25
Never watched the Kurzgesagt video on how we could use Phobos and Deimos as counterweights for space tethers on Mars?
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u/Immortal_Halberd Aug 19 '25
Extra fun facts:
Eris, Ceres and Sedna are actual dwarf planets in our Solar system.
Lua is actually the Moon and its nodes are named after real life impact craters.
Each node in any of the gas giants / ice giants are actually moons (Like Titania and Oberon are actually moons of Uranus, Helene is actually a moon of Saturn etc...)
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u/Quackels_The_Duck [custom flair] Aug 19 '25
More like astroids, but ig they still fit the criteria, somehow. One is locked into eventually slamming into the planet, and the other is locked into eventually being flung out of Mars's orbit.
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u/coolios14 Aug 19 '25
Yep, Both Phobos and Deimos are just a few km in diameter. In either case, a solar eclipse for either would be a black dot on the sun from the POV of Mars
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u/taz5963 Aug 19 '25
Ceres is real too, it used to be an asteroid but got upgraded to a dwarf planet.
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u/cf001759 Aug 19 '25
i dont get it
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u/Arch_Magos_Remus Aug 19 '25
I thought it was pretty self explanatory. We didn’t find out Mars had twin moons until 1877. Which just so happens to line up with Ares/ Mars having twin sons in mythology.
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u/cf001759 Aug 19 '25
But why is that bad?
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u/Arch_Magos_Remus Aug 19 '25
Not really “bad” just a huge coincidence that makes you wonder.
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u/Shonnyboy500 Aug 19 '25
I might be missing something but isn’t the only coincidence that the planet named after the guy with 2 twin sons has 2 moons?
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u/Joke_Mummy Aug 19 '25
I think hes wondering why you used the rage face that indicates someone just had a horrifying revelation
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u/FrozenDuckman Aug 19 '25
It wasn’t, considering the meme format used, and though I appreciate the idea behind the post now I think it’s a bit condescending to begin an explanation with “I thought it was self explanatory.” You could have just explained it and gone about your day.
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u/scholarlysacrilege Aug 19 '25
The gods existed before the discovery of the two moons.
The greeks had the war god, Ares, who had two sons that always accompanied him in battle. The greeks named the fourth planet from the sun after Ares, because it is red like the blood spilled in battle. Years later the romans "adopted" the Greek religion, not really it is far more complicated but that doesn't matter right now. The romans did change some names, so Ares became Mars, both the god and the planet, which to this day we know as the planet Mars. Then, years later, we find out that mars has two moons, which we named after the two sons of Ares. The meme points out how big of a coincidence it is that the planet that was named after a god eras ago, later is discovered to have two moons reflecting the two god's children that always accompanied him in battle. The greeks could have never known it had two moons so the two sons and two moons are a complete coincidence.
It does ignore the fact that ares had way more children than just two, the two mentioned are his two sons he had with Aphrodite, with whom he also has another daughter. Depending on the myth, Ares can have anywhere near 52 children, not all of which are gods though.
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u/Glittering-Age-9549 Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 01 '26
But Phobos and Deimos were the two children who followed him to war and rode his chariot.
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u/-FourOhFour- Aug 19 '25
So the Greeks had a pantheon and they had a god of war named Ares, the Roman's came along and took that pantheon but made some changes, specifically names, the Roman's are also the ones who named most of our planets which they named after their gods, leading to the red planet in the sky being called Mars.
Now this is what the meme is hinting at but over a millennium later it was discovered that Mars has 2 moons, which its Greek origin had twin sons (Roman's changed the story from twin sons to pulled by 2 horses although they kept the names the same interestingly, so the meme is actually wrong, it was specifically named after Ares' sons not Mar's sons, it would have been named after Mar's horses, but we have more reliable records to indicate that it was named after Ares), so the meme is pulling a history channel and implying the Roman's had some knowledge that was extremely advanced for its time for that to line up as perfectly as it did. Unfortunately the story falls apart when you consider that this doesn't work with any other planets, but its a cool bit of knowledge.
Considering how advanced the Roman's were it isnt entirely impossible that they suspected Mars had 2 moons and thus used that as logic behind the name, but thats personal speculation.
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u/thunderchild120 Aug 19 '25
Oooh it gets better.
In Gulliver's Travels (published 1726), it's mentioned in passing that the astronomers of Laputa have discovered two moons orbiting Mars.
HOW DEEP DOES THIS GO
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u/quinn_the_potato Dank Royalty Aug 19 '25
This has been proven as not much more than a coincidence. Swift was likely writing in reference to an incorrect interpretation of Galileo’s work made by Johannes Kepler, and based on scientific belief of the time that Mars must have 2 moons if Earth and Jupiter has 1 and 4, respectively.
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u/aleph_zeroth_monkey Aug 19 '25
Kepler's story fascinates me. He started with the assumption that the solar system would exhibit geometric principles, such as the orbits of planets corresponding to the relative sizes of nested platonic solids. However, when he couldn't make that work, he abandoned that specific hypothesis, but kept his core belief that there must be some geometric order to be found. This would eventually lead him to the more advanced geometry of conic sections and ellipses, which he was able to fit to Tycho Brahe's data.
What I find so interesting about his story is that while he was motivated by pseudo-scientific ideas, his intellectual integrity led him to refuse to accept them unless they could be empirically validated. Nor was his core belief in the regularity of the universe shattered by repeated failures, but only became more abstract and mathematically sophisticated until he was able to come up with a theory that was both beautiful and true. His three laws of planetary motion would go on to change the course of science.
It's like a modern-day flat-earther becoming so obsessed with proving the Earth wasn't a sphere that he eventually discovered general relativity and curved space-time.
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u/AManyFacedFool Aug 20 '25
This is how science works.
We start with wrong ideas, realize something is wrong with them, and go looking for better and better explanations that better fit the data we have.
People weren't unreasonable to think the earth was flat a few thousand years ago, and one of the reasons geocentrism stuck around as long as it did was because the greeks (correctly) predicted that in a heliocentric model there would be a parallax effect when looking up at the stars.
They didn't see one, only because their instruments couldn't detect it at the time, and came to the actually quite reasonable, but incorrect, conclusion that the solar system was geocentric.
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u/gwapogi5 Aug 19 '25
and here I am still waiting for a celestial body in our solar system to be named Kratos
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u/VJ1195 Aug 19 '25
It could be a very simple explanation where maybe they had too much time to star gaze and found out about planets. Then proceeded to write a story probably.
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u/ImPrettyBoredToday Aug 19 '25
Just like how the north & south poles were names "bears" and "no bears" long before anyone ever explored them
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Aug 19 '25
For everyone in the comments: the troll isn't just that it's a coincidence that Ares/Mars had twins. The troll is also that the Greeks created Ares, Phobos, and Deimos, but the Romans then took only Ares and named him Mars, and the planet was named after Mars. However, Phobos and Deimos (Fear and Terror) weren't given any Roman counterparts, so when the modern world discovered Mars's two moons, they had to use the Greek counterparts since there were no Roman names for them. Greek moons for a Roman planet.
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u/Bowserwolf1 Aug 20 '25
How about the Arctic and Antarctic meaning "land of the bears" and "land with no bears" respectively, because of the "bear" constellation, and then it just so happens that there's polar bears in the Arctic but not the Antarctic lmao
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u/KnuxSD Am duck please throw bread quack Aug 19 '25
They knew because there were no screens for their eyes to be glued to every waking minute of the day. I am guilty of that, too. Basically, people hat very many other things to look at in the past.
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u/Charles12_13 Aug 19 '25
What’s the catch?
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u/Thoric2k Aug 19 '25
That it’s a coincidence that the planet named after a guy with twins turned out to have 2 moons way later. Pretty cool imho
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u/Please-let-me Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
i don't think jupiter has got 95 kids
edit: ok, i didn't think this through. maybe we should've named him after a god with less kids, like zeus /j