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- oxilite, on 05/23/2008, -3/+22We must pass government regulation to stop the climate change on Jupiter!
- sockpuppets, on 05/23/2008, -1/+18Jupiter is just gas, it's not going to look like much else. It's basically a failed star.
- jjustice, on 05/23/2008, -2/+19omg monoliths
- pitlord, on 05/23/2008, -4/+20SPACE HERPES!!!!
- Jynx97, on 05/23/2008, -3/+19My god. It's full of stars!
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 05/23/2008, -1/+12The first one has been around for at least hundreds of years, the second one appeared in 2006, now the third ...
Where's Arthur C. Clarke when you need him?
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two ) - hellosaysme, on 05/23/2008, -0/+11Basically it is Jupiter's equivalent of a HUGE hurricane.
- joshpar, on 05/23/2008, -3/+13Red Spot the third! The nubbin.
- Sornos, on 05/23/2008, -1/+9That's what you wish she said.
- asskicker32, on 05/23/2008, -2/+9I cant get over how not-real Jupiter and Saturn look. I cant wait until we send something through the atmosphere and see waht they look like looking back...
- noahhoward, on 05/23/2008, -1/+8They're charging the plasma cannons... we're next.
- RealmDown, on 05/23/2008, -2/+9Dead.
- asskicker32, on 05/23/2008, -0/+7Arent all the outer planets? Im just shocked at the artistry of the planets and how beautiful they look. They look like renderings.
- sockpuppets, on 05/23/2008, -0/+7Sperpies?
- halleyscomet, on 05/23/2008, -0/+6If we're next, who was first?
Wait, where DID the asteroid belt come from? In the late 1800's there were reports of a planet being sighted in that same orbit... - ChronicColonic, on 05/23/2008, -0/+6Target Department Stores is expanding.
- thanakar, on 05/23/2008, -1/+7The size of those red spots is truly amazing. If I remember my school science, it was said that you could fit two earths within the Great Red spot.
- robertgoodwin, on 05/23/2008, -0/+5Related story here: http://tinyurl.com/6lgkpx
"The latest Hubble and Keck images also support the idea of Jupiter undergoing global climate change. Warming near the giant planet's equator and cooling at the South Pole could be destabilizing the southern hemisphere, causing jet streams to go haywire and spawn new storms."
So how can we blame this on Earth's industrialized nations? This just supports my theory that Earth's global warming is largely due to long-term solar cycles. They affect Jupiter just as they affect Earth. That's not to say we shouldn't try to control our carbon emissions, etc. But mankind is not solely responsible for global warming. It's happened before and it will happen again. - MeteoMan8314, on 05/23/2008, -2/+7It's science people. This is a common flare-up which occurs when a planet has unprotected contact with Shoemaker-Levy 9...that dirty space whore.
- Bladeweever, on 05/23/2008, -1/+5OMG! Jupiter is suffering from global warming!
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -3/+7galaxy warming
- Ne007, on 05/23/2008, -4/+8Notify Al Gore that global warming has now reached Jupiter!
- kahakauai, on 05/23/2008, -4/+8Xenu has landed...
- edwartica, on 05/23/2008, -0/+3No, this is actually interesting.
- gimmeslack12, on 05/23/2008, -2/+5Don't scratch it.
- SACubeMonkey, on 05/23/2008, -1/+4Well that is interesting I suppose. Can someone inform me of what exactly the "red spots" are? Is it just clouds of a different kind of gas that somehow group together?
- jamessavik, on 05/23/2008, -0/+3LOL... Jupiter has comet clap.
- chanop, on 05/23/2008, -0/+3FTA: "The visible-light images were taken on May 9 and 10 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2."
- BossKey, on 05/23/2008, -1/+3Those promiscuous Roman gods...he should have that checked.
- orlandorays, on 05/23/2008, -1/+3NASA says climate change. I wonder how the environ-mentals will blame this on humankind...
- MadOtaku, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Well, then it would seem Mars in next and that (if the pattern holds) we have over 100 years before we have to worry.
- bazwilliams, on 05/23/2008, -5/+7Ah, Puberty...
- tkstock, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2It's nothing that a good bit of Proactiv wouldn't clear right up!
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Waiting for someone to blame it on Global Warming.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -1/+3Wow, I actually read the article and they said that Jupiter IS getting WARMER.
Hmmm.
Global warming blamed on the human race, what a crock. - vidaliasweet, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2This won't end well.
- Shibbashabba, on 05/23/2008, -1/+3I've also read, and yes I can cite articles if anyone is too lazy to go type up "X planet getting warmer" in Google, that Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune are all getting warmer. I find that interesting because if you believe that the human race is responsible for the warming of this planet, how can you explain the warming of other planets where there is no human population. Keep in mind that one of the stated reasons for these planets getting warmer is an increase in solar luminance (which is tied to solar activity). I agree we should take care with the environment, but I'm not looking to pay more taxes or break the economy for something that may or may not be true.
Anyone wanting to use the argument that, "Well, we should be careful just in case" - Well, I'd say everyone should practice a religion of some sort "just in case". I just reject that argument, it is cautionary but fallible.
*sigh* - egossett, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Thank you because this is the question I would like a response to.
In addition - I enjoyed all the comical responses but what does it really mean, or indicate? Why should we be concerned about red spots on Jupiter?? - edwartica, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Be sure to get all the klingons.
- jamessavik, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2What does climate change mean for a planet like Jupiter? If it were more massive, it would eventually become a star. Are we seeing the first stages of that process?
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Hit it for MASSIVE DAMAGE.
- jamessavik, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2The reason is that when you are imaging planets, the light is reflected. Stars (and thus galaxies) are self illuminating.
The planet imaged can be a very long distance away in an inconvenient part of its orbit at times making it as far away as 8 X as far away than a direct line to its orbital ellipse. - designerutah, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1The sad thing is that we haven't been paying attention to the gas giants long enough to have a good idea of what they should be like. I think it would be cool to have the last 10 million years of "weather" on Jupiter to compare against. What would we see? Were there bigger storms in the past? Was there ever a time when the atmosphere was clear enough to see the surface? Has there been huge impacts like have happened on Earth and the Moon... the type that have changed the planet? If so, what was it like before? Same type of questions for Saturn. What caused the rings? Were they bigger in the past? More colorgul?
- jamessavik, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1What does global warming imply for a planet like Jupiter? Will it become a star?
- McShr3dd3r, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there.
- smek2, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1Yeah, it's a pity, ain't it?
- BeeArePro, on 05/23/2008, -3/+4Incest between Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr
- mstrebe, on 05/23/2008, -1/+2Wait a second--how is my SUV causing global warming on Jupiter?
- uptwolait, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1Jupiter's gonna need a buttload of Acutane.
- withears, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1It's this kind of crap that pisses me off.
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