[B-Chan]

RACISM!

[centurion316]

Film at 11.

[GreenHornet]

Studies on Jupiter have revealed that the giant planet, which is more than 120 times bigger than the Earth, has an extremely small core that weighs just two to 10 Earth masses.

Or, roughly the size of Michael Moore.

[righttackle44]

" . . .said the super-Earth might have grown into a gas
giant itself one day if it had not collided
with Jupiter.

Can you imagine the belch that would have created?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Jupiter, the biggest planet in the solar system, might have gained its dominant position after swallowing up a smaller planet, scientists believe."

And do planets burp after eating?

[ConservativeMind]

Why do they think that a huge planet could have shot to the core of Jupiter, blasting apart everything there, but by now still not allowing these fragments to have been pulled back in from the effect of gravity?

[rockrr]

“Then it barrelled into the giant’s core about half an hour later and the energy of the collision could have vaporised much of the core.”

How do they know it was a half-hour and not forty-five minutes?

/nitpicky

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Immanuel Velikovsky, call your office.

[webheart]

After everyone gets finished with the stupid unfunny wisecracks, we will be able to discuss the actual science in the premise.

[dfwgator]

What’s wrong with you guys. This isn’t the FR I know, 15 posts and not a single Uranus joke.

[NorCoGOP]

Jupiter's core might have been vaporised

Just to put the painfully obvious out there...everything is (1) caused by Global warming (vaporized core!), and (2) it just had to be Bush's fault...

I now return you to the normally scheduled thread responses...

[SoldierDad]

What are these “scientists” using for the basis of this theory (or, rather, hypothesis, since there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that such an incident happened)?

[OrioleFan]

So the giant red spot is basically a scab. Call the shop steward!

[Chances Are]

What do Velikovsky and Sitchen have to say about this?

And what prompted this “hypothesis” to emerge now, and not at some earlier point in time?

CA....

[RckyRaCoCo]

We decedents of planet Gog want reparations.

[dfwgator]

For Rosie O’Donnell, that’s breakfast.

[DustyMoment]

'Jupiter swallowed planet 10 times the size of Earth'

What a coincidence!! So did Mooshell Obummer!!

[No Truce With Kings]

It’s supposed to be Saturn that swallowed his children, not Jupiter. Maybe they should switch the names of the two planets.

[KarlInOhio]

'Jupiter swallowed planet 10 times the size of Earth'

This is the key to the Michael Moore diet.

[BobS]

""The Earth and Moon are the result of a gigantic collision between two planets the size of Mars and Venus...

In a deeper translation, Chinese guys and their wives expel hot gas and heavy elements at each other. Then they get exhausted and get along fine again. That's because they safely drink tea and not coffee from Brasil.