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Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space

Posted by Zonk on from the intergalactic-bodily-fluids dept.

Tablizer writes "The New Horizons probe caught the moon Io in the act of 'barfing' into space. A five-frame sequence from the New Horizons probe captured a beautiful plume of ash from Io's Tvashtar volcano. "Snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, this first-ever "movie" of an Io plume clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon's surface ... The appearance and motion of the plume is remarkably similar to an ornamental fountain on Earth, replicated on a gigantic scale.""

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  1. "Puking" and "barfing"? by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, why does the summary title and text use the terms "puking" and "barfing" when the article itself doesn't make any such references? Gratuitous? "Submitter's license"?

    I mean, was that really necessary? Or is the story not interesting enough itself without toilet humor?

    1. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by TopSpin · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I saw this story in Firehose and thought; interesting story, too bad the puerile wording will keep it off the front page...

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    2. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It is known as artistic license.

    3. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      So, why does the summary title and text use the terms "puking" and "barfing" when the article itself doesn't make any such references? Gratuitous? "Submitter's license"?

      What rule says that titles and summaries must be verbatim?

      I mean, was that really necessary? Or is the story not interesting enough itself without toilet humor?

      It provides an interesting visual metaphor. Not everybody likes everything dry and clinical all the time. Otherwise, we wouldn't have overlord jokes.

      -The Submitter- (but not the Decider)

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    4. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by asdfghjklqwertyuiop · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It is known as artistic license.


      In what, second grade?

  2. Huh? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So which is it? Puking or barfing? The summary leaves me confused.

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  3. would an american submitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    put the distance in kilometers?

  4. Re:Question: Why is the quality so poor? by IHC+Navistar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it's because Jupiter is 365 MILLION miles from Earth.

    The limiting factor of the space probes that took the photos would be CURRENT TECHNOLOGY.

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  5. Re:Great terminology... by asninn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, if you look at everything that the graecoroman gods did, incest is actually one of the most harmless things you'll come across...

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