Jupiter's Spots Disappear Amid Major Climate Change

Space.com ^ | 21 April 2004 | Robert Roy Britt

[Yo-Yo]

So Jupiter is going through a period of global warming at the same time the Earth appears to be? Those pesky Martians and their SUVs!

[Patrick1]

Indeed. Algore will be on the first space ship.

[kennedy]

It is all Bush's fault!

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[theDentist]

Maybe we should send 'em some of our ozone!

[spunkets]

"Maybe we should send 'em some of our ozone!"

Sure, load up the SUVs!

[AK2KX]

It's all our fault! We didn't sign Kyoto!

[Frank_Discussion]

My God! It's Full of Stars!

[You Dirty Rats]

It's all the fault of Dubya's friends in the Texas Oil Industry who drilled in Jupiter without an environmental impact study.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee voted to approved this drilling several years ago, but later recanted her vote due to a misunderstanding as to which planet was involved.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Imagine, climate change without any human activity! How is that possible?

[AngryJawa]

I'm sure Halliburton had something to do with this crisis. {/ sarcasm}

[Warlord David]

Those pesky Martians and their SUVs!

Those pesky human and their UFOs! What next!

[Paradox]

While Jupiter generates much of its own heat, I wonder if any of this climactic change has to do with solar cycles. Might help explain some of the global warming that may be going on here on earth.

[LibWhacker]

So Jupiter is going through a period of global warming at the same time the Earth appears to be?

Another reason 'rats don't like the space program. If by studying other planets, scientists can pin the blame for "global warming" on the sun or other extraterrestrial causes, the campaign against logging, the SUV, or other people-friendly technologies will be lost.

[Puddleglum]

Yep, those pesky internal combustion engines of Jupiter are taking their toll. I think it's all those gas-powered leaf-blowers. Hell, who needs those? In my days they made a lot less noise and were called "rakes."

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do..."

[So Cal Rocket]

We did cause it:

Posted on Sun, Sep. 14, 2003

NASA to Crash Galileo Probe Into Jupiter

ANDREW BRIDGES

Associated Press

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend to make sure it doesn't accidentally contaminate the planet's ice-covered moon Europa with bacteria from Earth.

[Not A Snowbird]

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do..."

"I'm half crazy, all for the love of you..."

[Not A Snowbird]

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend to make sure it doesn't accidentally contaminate the planet's ice-covered moon Europa with bacteria from Earth.

Wait a minute! It's okay to contaminate Jupiter, but not okay to contaminate Europa?

My head hurts. Pass me a tootsie roll.

[IronJack]

Extra-global warming.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They didn't sign Kyoto...