Mystery Spot On Jupiter Baffles Astronomers

10/23/03

[Davea]

Maybe Galileo morphed:-) http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter_dark_spot_031023.html

[Joe Hadenuf]

Aperture on this Tak is just 200 mm, and this baby gets $197,000 including the base and tracking unit....High quality stuff.

[July 4th]

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

[onedoug]

The universe inside and beyond, God's beauty ever more for the moral law within...me.

[BenLurkin]

Actually a pretty good flick . . .

[gcruse]

An enigma? Nah, it's just that time of the monolith.

[aruanan]

Is that right-side-up or up-side-down?

[mhking]

No comment from HAL.......yet.

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[TheAngryClam]

Dyson Sphere.

[ChemistCat]

It's some of those Grey Davis voters from many planets, the Jupiter contingent, gathered together to begin the process of recalling Arnold.

[Eaker]

If memory serves, this is just one of those floating monolith thingies that leads to an ancient interstellar wormhole terminal through which travellers can be reborn as a "Star-Child".

Cool. Is there one close to my house on Mars?

;<)

[lilylangtree]

Thanks for the clarification. I was hoping some freeper would post either the correct pronunciation or spelling.

[Imperialist]

It's A.M.E.E.


That was a very cool robot. Thanks for the image.

[Allegra]

It's the spot where Exxon has started drilling for oil. Real high quality crude there and lots of it from what I hear.

We weren't kidding when we said "Earth First....We'll Drill the Other Planets Later."

We've gotten sick of all that OPEC crap.

:-)

[RandallFlagg]

WHEW! I thoughtthat htis thread was going to read, "The spot is growing..."

And we all know what happens after that.......................KA BOOM!

[PoorMuttly]

Can't a typing dog get ANY privacy these days ?!!...


Shaggy...they found it again.

"Activate Plan-C...repeat...Activate Plan-C"

[Phsstpok]

Amateurs astronomers have come quite a long way in the past 10 years.

I don't disagree with your point regarding the relative quality of the image given the tools, but "amateur astronomers" have made most of the major scientific discoveries regarding our solar system of note, including the majority of the planetary and notable cometary discoveries.

Traditionally almost all astronomers in history have been, technically speaking, amateurs. It's the tools available to all that have changed. I love CMOS.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I agree.

Oh, and nice profile page you got there.

[dljordan]

When can I leave?

[edwin hubble]

This is a funny thread.
Space science and cultural references all over the map.

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks for the ping. I loved the movie 2001. :-)