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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.
1 posted on 05/23/2008 7:51:39 PM PDT by ChessExpert
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To: ChessExpert

Climate change? There aren’t any SUVs on Jupiter.


2 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.)
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To: ChessExpert

Whoever is living there isn’t managing their atmosphere very well and needs to start buying carbon credits from AlGore ....


3 posted on 05/23/2008 7:56:42 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: ChessExpert

you drove your buick over there dude

and messed it up!


4 posted on 05/23/2008 7:57:46 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: ChessExpert

Geez, I wish they would stop with the climate change junk no matter who it is.


5 posted on 05/23/2008 8:19:32 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: ChessExpert

To quote another FReeper whose name I forget,

“Jove, You Magnificent Bastard!”


6 posted on 05/23/2008 8:35:14 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: ChessExpert
Important Public Service Announcement: Photobucket

"This is your brain on drugs, along with two eggs and a slice of bacon".

7 posted on 05/23/2008 8:39:58 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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8 posted on 05/23/2008 8:48:17 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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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.”


9 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.)
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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. 

10 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.)
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To: ChessExpert

Blame it on Bush!


11 posted on 05/23/2008 10:14:06 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ken21

no....to quote the B-52s

He drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light


12 posted on 05/23/2008 10:20:32 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ChessExpert

Wow! Must be a lot of cattle there.


13 posted on 05/23/2008 11:27:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

14 posted on 05/24/2008 4:26:05 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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