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Jupiter’s Red Spot chews up and spits out a storm [PICS]

blogs.discovermagazine.com — Hubble took this sequence of amazing pictures, showing the Great Red Spot — a storm far larger than our entire planet — chewing up and spitting out a smaller, though still ginormous, storm.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 18, 2008

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  • Jowe, on 07/17/2008, -19/+33om nom nom...
  • christof53, on 07/18/2008, -4/+16Is that storm ever going to end?
  • MeatyMcBeef, on 07/18/2008, -1/+10I do not know why I read digg this late/early. No one here is remotely capable of forming coherent sentences with anything resembling basic logic or even a fundamental grasp of the english language. Then you have some jackass who doesn't know when to give up interjecting "RP08!", the occasional rickroll and your odd t.a.w.t waffle now and again who says "these comments suck" yet themselves conforming to the late night Digg no capitalization/punctuation/intelligent conversation policy.

    Someone post a Digg.com 12-5AM sign to failblog.

    Yet I digress.

    Hubble. You will forever be my favorite source for desktop backgrounds to stare at late at night, eat my ravioli and weep bitterly over. Thank you.



  • mason215, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3actually, yours sucked the most
  • arcooke, on 07/18/2008, -1/+3It says spits, not *****.
  • duckyinc, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Eventually but if we don't do anything to it, it will last until the sun turns into a white dwarf or even more..
  • chaos7, on 07/18/2008, -2/+3it's just our perspective that makes it seem like it's been going on a lone time. humans have existed for a speck of time, in the big picture..
  • Iztikeit, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Crab Nebula is my background as we speak.
  • DforSpiD, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Compare it to any storm on Earth, then call it tiny (and yes I'm talking about the small one)
  • MeatyMcBeef, on 07/18/2008, -2/+3Buried for your lousy spelling.
  • arcooke, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1*****
  • locke2002, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0"Hubble. You will forever be my favorite source for desktop backgrounds to stare at late at night, eat my ravioli and weep bitterly over. Thank you."

    Sounds like your place is fun. Can I come over?
  • Jonlennon1973, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1The great red spot could go away in matter of a days so we should enjoy the spender of Jupiter's most fascinating feature while we can,...Jupiter can be seen very clearly through an amateur telescope including their fascinating moons.
  • taketheleap, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1dugg for using "ginormous" in the description.
  • MRintheKeys, on 07/18/2008, -0/+0Why because ours is mostly wet all the time?
  • mbauer14, on 07/18/2008, -2/+2***** THE RIAA!
  • Narrwald, on 07/18/2008, -3/+2Not mine.
  • MRintheKeys, on 07/18/2008, -2/+0Anybody else get even more psyched for Spore after seeing this?
  • arcooke, on 07/18/2008, -4/+2When Murcury freezes over.
  • inactive, on 07/18/2008, -8/+6What is it that we are actually witnessing? Makes me wonder if the planets themselves are "alive". It looks so organic like the cells you see under a microscope. Fascinating stuff!
  • elliotys, on 07/18/2008, -5/+2Kind of makes our planet seem pussy. . .
  • Borgcube636, on 07/18/2008, -8/+5Jupiter needs to stop playing with his food. That's just gross
  • stutimandal, on 07/18/2008, -5/+1Oldest chewing-gum known to mankind.
  • arcooke, on 07/18/2008, -5/+1Damn it. The grammar Nazi got Jewed. I'm usually the one burying people for retarded typos. The tables have turned and I blame the beer.
  • Narrwald, on 07/18/2008, -11/+6Sometimes I refresh the comment pages to watch the girls in the t-shirts on the right change.
  • ShadowFoxxx, on 07/18/2008, -6/+1Bad day to be a tiny storm.
  • mbauer14, on 07/18/2008, -9/+4ITS A TRAP!
  • xApemanx, on 07/18/2008, -5/+0could be related to http://www.gnn.tv/threads/11883/the_lucifer_projec ... in any way
  • cholesterolnews, on 07/17/2008, -7/+2pretty amazing
  • drfluffer, on 07/18/2008, -5/+0Don't follow the link if you're under 18.
  • Draculecom, on 07/18/2008, -9/+3Happens to me when I eat a burrito.
  • inactive, on 07/18/2008, -7/+1Translation.

    Hey everyone!! - you know that red dot on that really big planet.. well it made a smaller dot and now there are two.

  • inactive, on 07/18/2008, -7/+1Graveyard!
  • zplot, on 07/18/2008, -7/+1Wow. The Red Spot is such a bully.
  • mason215, on 07/18/2008, -7/+1these comments suck
  • mbauer14, on 07/18/2008, -7/+1In soviet russia....
  • kipmartin, on 07/18/2008, -9/+3Think of the Big Storm as being Dick Cheney and the Little Storm as being the Constitution. Now imagine the observing community of planetary scientists as Congress.

    OK, that last one was a stretch. It's just nice to see news on Digg that isn't about politics for a change.

  • Xezial, on 07/18/2008, -8/+2Digg me down, too!
  • inactive, on 07/18/2008, -7/+1***** the RIAA
  • Djerrid, on 07/17/2008, -7/+1*heck* *Hack* *ACK*... "hairball"
  • googooly, on 07/18/2008, -10/+2was on front page several days ago

    http://digg.com/space/Jupiter_s_Third_Red_Spot_Des ...

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