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JUPITER IN THE BALANCE: Recent 'red spots' likely due to climate change...
DrudgeReport link to Astronomy Picture of the Day ^
| May 23, 2008
| Robert Nemiroff & Jerry Bonnell
Posted on 05/23/2008 7:51:39 PM PDT by ChessExpert
For about 300 years Jupiter's banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot. In 2006, another red storm system appeared, actually seen to form as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the curious reddish hue. Now, Jupiter has a third red spot ...
(Excerpt) Read more at antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov ...
TOPICS: Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; climatechange; globalwarming; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarning; greatredspot; jupiter; jymb; littleredspot
The title of the thread was provided by Matt Drudge. Photo provided at link.
To: ChessExpert
Climate change? There aren’t any SUVs on Jupiter.
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posted on
05/23/2008 7:54:31 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Some people are like slinkys, the idea of them tumbling down a flight of stairs makes you smile.)
To: ChessExpert
Whoever is living there isn’t managing their atmosphere very well and needs to start buying carbon credits from AlGore ....
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posted on
05/23/2008 7:56:42 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: ChessExpert
you drove your buick over there dude
and messed it up!
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posted on
05/23/2008 7:57:46 PM PDT
by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: ChessExpert
Geez, I wish they would stop with the climate change junk no matter who it is.
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:19:32 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: ChessExpert
To quote another FReeper whose name I forget,
“Jove, You Magnificent Bastard!”
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:35:14 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: ChessExpert
Important Public Service Announcement:
"This is your brain on drugs, along with two eggs and a slice of bacon".
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:39:58 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: ChessExpert
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posted on
05/23/2008 8:48:17 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: rfp1234
From the article:
“Jupiter’s recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator.”
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posted on
05/23/2008 9:18:36 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(Carbon Dioxide is a trace gas that is necessary for life on earth.)
To: ChessExpert
Every so often there's a buzzword the mental cripples have to shout no matter the subject, and no matter how remotely related (if at all), such as
tolerance and
diversity and
homophobe, and now there's
climate change.
Someday they'll link it to the holes in Cheerios. Go ahead, make me a liar.
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posted on
05/23/2008 9:26:27 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the girly-man population. Have the McCainiacs spayed or neutered.)
To: ChessExpert
To: ken21
no....to quote the B-52s
He drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light
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posted on
05/23/2008 10:20:32 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: ChessExpert
Wow! Must be a lot of cattle there.
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posted on
05/23/2008 11:27:41 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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