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[Suen]

1300 earths fit into jupiter.

I meant the storm :lol

edit: fixed the post!

 

[jambo]

"One possibility is that some unknown activity in the planet's atmosphere may be draining energy and weakening the storm, causing it to shrink," Hubble officials wrote in a statement.

 

[jett]

They definitely need to get something inside the atmosphere of Jupiter.

 

[ampere]

Climate change, thanks Obama.

It was in the pool!

I chortled.

Entropy.

Yeah seems to be something like that. Energy spreading from the storm to other parts of the planet. Wonder what caused it to start happening

 

[DoomGyver]

Fuck me I never knew the red spot was caused by a storm. Public education failed me, thanks Obama.

 

[ramuh]

It's the humans fault. Burning too many fossil fuels and somehow it traveled to Jupiter. /s

 

[Lowmelody]

Jupiter is too round to see his junk. Cold vacuum of space isn't helping.

 

[Wheeljack539]

jupiter legit scares me, fucking hell.

 

[dekline]

They definitely need to get something inside the atmosphere of Jupiter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#Galileo_Probe

They need to do something like this again but with a camera recording the action

 

[Mdot]

Space, man. FUCKING SPACE.

 

[The Elite]

It's locking on.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

1290+ earths can fit in Jupiter.

volume of Earth is 1*10^12 Km^3. Volume of Jupiter is 1.4*10^15 Km^3. 3 orders of magnitude larger

Yeah, Jupiter is terrifying.

During its recorded history it has traveled several times around the planet relative to any possible fixed rotational marker below it.

Great red spot = sentient being

 

[jett]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#Galileo_Probe

They need to do something like this again but with a camera recording the action

Yeah.

 

[Kieli]

Two things immediately spring to mind.

1 - That spot is way bigger than Earth. Holy shit.

2 - Jupiter is suffering from Global Cooling, methinks. :3

 

[Teknoman]

The being known as Jupiter is just blinking its ancient eye. Very slowly it will close and then re-open.

Something something Hellstar Remina.



Ugh now i've got mental images...

 

[Dr Zhivago]

I hope the space jellyfish are OK.

 

[paperboywriter]

 

[StayDead]

Is this where the beings in hiding come out from under the storm and then kill us all?

What've you done, you've doomed us all.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Man, all of these findings in space fascinate me. I really wonder what's out there.

 

[Sphinx805]

First the polar bears. Now this?

 

[BouncyFrag]

Space, man. FUCKING SPACE.

Jupiter is a bro to us here on Earth:
articles.philly.com/2000-04-30/news/25590901_1_alan-boss-extinction-events-space-rock
Jupiter's massive gravity acts as a shield, sheltering Earth from most of the roving comets and asteroids that otherwise could smash into our planet, snuffing out plants and animals.

Jupiter displayed its protective power less than six years ago, when a monster comet broke into fragments and bombarded the planet with more destructive power than all the atomic bombs on Earth. Other hazardous objects are periodically wrenched out of their orbits and flung into the sun or deflected back into space by the big planet's gravitational blockade.

"Jupiter is our first line of defense," said Alan Boss, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "It is something like 99.9 percent efficient at throwing [dangerous space junk] back out to interstellar space."

The Oort Cloud with its BILLIONS of comets likes to send them our way.

When looking up the Oort Cloud I found an article that says Jupiter could actually be making things worse in regards to comets.
www.newscientist.com/article/dn12532-jupiter-increases-risk-of-comet-strike-on-earth.html

Whelp, that wasn't reassuring at all.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Yeah, Jupiter is terrifying.

I thought Uranus would be larger.

 

[smurfx]

jupiter legit scares me, fucking hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWTC7P1Dprw

 

[KarmaCow]

I thought Uranus would be larger.

We haven't sent enough probes there.

 

[Tianbur]

Pretty terrifying but I think Saturn's polar hexagonal storm scares me more though!

 

[GK86]

Pretty terrifying but I think Saturn's polar hexagonal storm scares me more though!

That is why Saturn is the best. Rings and a hexagonal storm. Take that Stinkles.

 

[SymbiantXenos]

War of the world's

 

[slit]

jupiter legit scares me, fucking hell.

Jupiter has probably prevented Earth from being destroyed. Don't be scared, be greatful

 

[Volimar]

We're obviously not sacrificing enough virgins and Mighty Jupiter is displeased.

 

[Suen]

Pretty terrifying but I think Saturn's polar hexagonal storm scares me more though!

Completely forgot this, wtf.

 

[Tesseract]

Jupiter has probably prevented Earth from being destroyed. Don't be scared, be greatful

FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

 

[-PXG-]

It's afraid

 

[immortal-joe]

Damn right you wanna get inside Jupiter, buncha pervs

Also, dafuk is that globe looking thingy in the OP?

 

[IISANDERII]

It's only 300yrs old, which is very brief in the grand scheme so its end would be much sooner rather than later.

 

[Chronoja]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#Galileo_Probe

They need to do something like this again but with a camera recording the action

A camera would be pretty pointless, excess weight for a planetary probe to Jupiter. All you'd see is clouds with minimum visibility.

 

[StayDead]

A camera would be pretty pointless, excess weight for a planetary probe to Jupiter. All you'd see is clouds with minimum visibility.

It'd still be a look at something that mankind has never seen (as far as we know).

 

[Maninthemirror]

Well apparently the red dot has vanished before

 

[Talents]

Yeah, Jupiter is terrifying.


Great red spot = sentient being

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

I'm embarrassed that I did not know this was shrinking every year. I should view Jupiter with my telescope again; it's been a while.

 

[danwarb]

jupiter legit scares me, fucking hell.

Jupiter would scare me too, if this guy wasn't a few hundred million miles closer and burning my face:

 

[Tom_Cody]

Climate change, thanks Obama.

First post nailed it again.

 

[Yamauchi]

I'm pretty sure the Great Red Spot is dying and will cease to exist within the next two or three decades. It's a storm and, like any storm, is running out of steam for whatever reason.

That said, the Little Red Spot (Oval BA), which is just south of the Great Red Spot, is increasing in strength and growing larger.

Edit: Here is an image of both from this year:

 

[Skittles]

They definitely need to get something inside the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Isn't Jupiter just a gas giant with no solid surface?

 

[slit]

Isn't Jupiter just a gas giant with no solid surface?

Well sort of, there is a rocky center that's under tremendous pressure, but I think the person you quoted meant to put something in it's atmosphere, not land anywhere.

 

[Extra Sauce]

I wonder how an Earth as big as Jupiter would have played out in terms of human history. So much more land to discover and resources to exploit.

 

[Grinchy]

We know from cave drawings that the last time Jupiter's storm dwindled was when the dinosaurs went extinct. This is known fact. We are screwed.

 

[Flipyap]

jupiter legit scares me, fucking hell.

 

[shira]

I wonder how an Earth as big as Jupiter would have played out in terms of human history. So much more land to discover and resources to exploit.

Depends on the spin. If it was turning slow and rotated around the sun really slow there would nights that last for weeks or months.

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Jupiter's butthole is puckering.

 

[Partial Gamification]

Something it consumed.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/jupiter/febgrs.htm