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Jupiter's Great Red Spot May Soon Disappear (nationalgeographic.com)
The Great Red Spot has been a fixture of Jupiter 's cloudy visage for centuries and is among the most recognizable features in the solar system. But it won't always be there. In fact, the Great Red Spot is shrinking, and recently, news stories reported that it could vanish within the next 10 or 20 years . From a report: Older observations, from the late 1800s, suggest the storm once spanned more than 30 degrees in longitude and was more of a "Great Red Sausage," says Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But the storm's shape is changing, most significantly in width, and as time marches on it's becoming less oval and more circular. Way back when, the storm stretched more than 25,000 miles across. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by in the 1970s, scientists estimated that the Spot was just 14,500 miles wide. In 2014, a Hubble Space Telescope observation put the Spot at just 10,250 miles across, and by last spring, it spanned just 10,140 miles. So when will it disappear entirely? Truth is, scientists have no idea. But if you measure the rate at which the Great Red Spot has been shrinking, and extrapolate linearly from that, it looks like the spot will vanish completely in about 70 years, says Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Problem is, "we know for certain it doesn't work like that at all," she says.
Waiting to see things may be the most difficult aspect of cosmology on Earth.
This is clearly related to Global Warming. The Corporations are killing our children and Bush lied to us all.
We now need not let anything out, and there will be a special tax imposed on farting :)
Looks like the giant dispenser that aliens built that we call Io might have done its job at last.
Quick, someone get the Jupiterians to stop driving cars and eating meat. It's changing their climate.
Climate change is having more effects than we anticipated !
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I wonder if there's a link between this story and the previous one about Jupiter's disappearing Red Spot?
The guys living there might need a new home and their wives decided a change to Blue would be nice.
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Only actual information: Jupiter's spot has shrunk over the last 100 years. No one knows what will happen next.
I feel like this summary & article wasted my time.
We should call it the Great Red Theme Park which has happier connotations. See, Elon Musk isn't the only forward-progressive-thinker-dreamer around here.
...to prove that climate change is real. someday people will listen, when it is too late.
"But remember, most lynch mobs aren't this nice." (H.Simpson)
-- Joe
Psy
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A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
HAS to be the problem....or TRUMP LMAO
It's all because of global warming, isn't it.
Take that, climate change deniers!
Strange, if you only have ONE troll, why do you call them "creimertards", PLURAL!??
Your diseased mongoloid brain can't keep track of all your lies and confabulations, Chris.
It's Bush's fau...I mean it's Trumps fault! (Sorry, wrong meme.)
Nobody knows... But does that stop the bold from making unsubstantiated predictions based on mathematical models? No..
So... If you guys are so good at forecasting the weather on Jupiter, why are you so bad about doing it here? Maybe you should pick a simpler system to model, say the stock market, and make a killing?
This Fine article is pretty much worthless... Nobody really knows where that red spot came from, it's been there as long as we could actually see enough detail to see it, we have little proof, only theories about what keeps it going and as a result we haven't a clue how long it will be there in the future.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Obviously global warming is spreading to other planets in the system. After all, it is global.
Very few geological or planet events occur within a lifetime or so seeing this in one's lifetime is pretty unique. Recall the Hale-Bopp comet which was one of the brightest comets seen at the beginning of the millennium which won't return until long after we're dead. (some 2000+ years) Scientists aren't familiar with Jupiter weather and it also isn't well understood so we don't know exactly what's going on so it's just a wild guess as to whether the spot will ultimately disappear or get bigger. The only thing we've noticed is that there's other smaller spots on the planet which come and go so it's not likely that the big spot is forever.
There you are spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!
You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.
Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.
How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????
The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!
You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!
When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!
Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!
Bonus:
Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:
The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!
So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!
Signed:
Ethell, The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!
Honest and for true -- the current size of the red spot is roughly three (3) Earth's.
A storm three times the size of our PLANET doesn't just disappear overnight.
Talk to me again when the storm has shrunk to just the size of our planet - lol.
There are 48 comments on the thread right now. Their low quality is unsettling. When a place like Slashdot descends into such levels of stupidity, I start to fear for the future of mankind.
Don't click on his homepage link! creimer is trying to get you to subscribe automatically to his youtube channel and make money off you!
CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE: /. so make sure to go to:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma again qby getting his submissions published as articles on
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and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!
Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!
creimer wrote:
I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!
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Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!
Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.
creimer wrote:
All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.
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C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."
But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
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After the sex change:
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Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
...to get intelligent comments on /.
Usually, like 5 years ago and before, There was always that frickin' "Frost Piss" sucker, but then you could get something intelligent. Now, the first 4-5 threads are just rubbish.
If nothing is done to remove this fuckin shit, I may simply no longer come here. I already come fewer on /. since Trump's election cause everything in the world that happens triggers some excessively boring Trump references. Now, with all the "Frost Piss", "Ni99ers", "Because of Trump" and "Global warming" shit, intelligent stuff is getting more and more diluted.
So long Slashdot, the place is no longer "News for Nerds". It's now "News for Trolls".
its global warming!!
creimer confuses his Slashdot signature with an advertisement animated gif.
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Balena!
Man-caused Global Warming came to Jupiter. What with all the probes we have sent to Jupiter or by it, it's clear humans must have caused it. If nothing else, it was obviously also due to all of the telescopes we pointed towards it.
burning coal and driving SUVs.
Oh, the Humanity!
Perhaps if we quickly implement all sorts of new taxes and funnel all that money into a gloval do-gooder org fro re-distribution to backwards countries whose people have been on Earth as long as everybody else but who've nonetheless failed to get their acts together, we can save 1/10th of a percent of the spot for people to see a hundred years from now...
Putinbot, or just a stupid cunt? Does it matter? Nope, it really doesn't.
You must be really cool. Only cool people stalk users of internet forums.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.