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The Shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-small dept.

schwit1 (797399) writes "Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into a circle, has been known about since the 1930s, but now these striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture the spot at a smaller size than ever before."

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  1. Global warming by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must be global warming...

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    1. Re:Global warming by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 3, Funny

      Must be global warming...

      Nah, the Neocon delegation must have reached mount Doom and burned the communist manifesto so the great eye of Sauron will now shrink until it disappears and Jupiter implodes thus purging the threat of environmentalism from the face of the universe forever.

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    2. Re:Global warming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Call Al Gore. He can't do anything about it, just like the rest of us, but at least he can make a slideshow that passes for a movie

  2. Monolith! by gigne · · Score: 5, Funny

    all these planets are yours except europa

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    1. Re:Monolith! by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Uranus is mine!!!

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  3. It's all about gravity by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 3, Funny

    The average Jovian's carbon footprint is much heavier than a Terran's.

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    1. Re:It's all about gravity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      The average Jovian's carbon footprint is much heavier than a Terran's.

      I think it's not so much gravity, but rather the division by zero in your calculations.

  4. Must be global cooling... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know it shrinks when it gets cold.

  5. This downsizing by oodaloop · · Score: 3, Funny

    downsizing

    In my organization, we call it rightsizing. Of course, we didn't call it that while we were expanding.

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  6. Damn, I feel old. by B33rNinj4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pluto isn't a planet, and now this? It's a sad day indeed.