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Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC has posted a gallery of images showing storms on some of our solar system's other planets. The pictures are both intriguing and stunning."
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Venus has a giant vortex constantly at its pole.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Did you notice that all of the BBC's photos had "Copyright NASA" on them?
[quote]"The BBC has posted a gallery of images showing storms on some of our solar system's other planets. The pictures are both intriguing and stunning."[/quote]
There should be a planet out there called "Texas" were everything is on a grand scale.
Does the BBC have a satellite? Because if they did that'd be cool.
What the hell? Great job submitter.
>> Does the BBC have a satellite?
Sort of: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogaboutthebbc/posts/Changes-to-BBC-Satellite-transponders-in-2013
I didn't RTFA because its from the BBC but I am pretty sure they are blaming extreme weather on other planets in the solar system on our excessive high levels of carbon dioxides. The article was only written to make us feel guilty and inhumane for turning on a light to read by at night for all the hell it generates across our solar system.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
No. Nor do I care. And the word is fuck.
Global warming is everywhere.
All the BBC did was re-post some NASA images that won't be news to many here, but even this simple act was enough to make me think about aurora on other planets, what the difference between a star and a planet really is and gives me some idea of the scale of the features by comparing them to the size of the earth. That's pretty good for such a simple sequence of photos. Giving me reason to think about things outside the day-to-day routine like this is just what I want out of slashdot. Thanks.
Nullius in verba
It's true that Texas is fairly large - it's practically the same size as Alberta, Canada's [ahem] sixth largest province.
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."
That's fine, I have US proxies too.
I don't understand why are they still relying on IP addresses to block content. So easy to circumvent.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
I didn't read your comment, but given your name I'm pretty sure it's the usual blinkered denialism. Your comment was only written to make us feel guilty and inhumane for pointing at you and sniggering.
....lets use that as a foundation for an inane article about exoplanetary storms.
(yes I know the saturn one is the only decent photo)
You should also check out some of the images on the Cassini mission webpage:
http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/191/The_Red_Rose_Of_Saturn
and some of the animations, like the ones on this page: http://www.ciclops.org/view/7620/North_Polar_Movie
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
I think that's just BBC mis-interpreting "Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI" as a copyright claim, in clear ignorance of 17 U.S.C. Section 105 (Copyright Act):
(*Yeah, Slashdot doesn't accept the ampersand entity code or the unicode character for the "section" mark. The 20th Century called. They wish to thank Slashdot for their continued support of last millennium's encoding standards.)
Anyway, I have this funny feeling BBC assumes copyright everywhere. (Suddenly, copyrights! Thousands of them!) I suspect they'd give themselves a hyperventilating panic attack if someone submitted some Public Domain material for them to display... "OMG, whose copyright is this!??!"
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
I thought it was an interesting despite it being mostly anecdotes. Maybe not news by any pedantic standard, but far better than most 90% of what most people consider news. I think the fact that there's a hurricane that's been around for 300 years is alot more fascinating than who some random person I have never met has been having an affair with.
Because of negative people like you, we can't have nice things. "Hey guys, they don't like the NASA articles, so next week just do some more articles on Ashton Kutcher and forget that science bullshit."