Jupiter Hit by an Astronomical Object

MINA ^ | Tuesday, 21 July 2009 | MINA

[gop4lyf]

Bush’s fault. Women and minorities affected most.

[TASMANIANRED]

NO doubt life on Jupiter was wiped out.

[Osnome]

Actually the website is from Macedonia, not Greece.
Macedonia is full of divisive ethnic groups, not Greeks.
Macedonia is much like Bosnia.

[Cyber Liberty]

I have an alibi.

[Osnome]

>>Jupiter sweeps up a lot of debris in the outer solar system,
almost certainly keeping us alive that much longer.
<<

Yes yes, Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner for the Solar System.
Its’ gravity pull along with the Sun’s diametrically opposed pull, also kept the asteroids from forming into a planet.

[Osnome]

I am sure you do!

[Verginius Rufus]

Thanks for the correction. I saw the link to a Greek-language newspaper so assumed it was from the Greek part of Macedonia. Should have noticed the time in Skopje (a Greek site presumably would give the time in Thessalonica).

I've been in both the Greek part of Macedonia and what was then the Yugoslav part, in order to visit Ohrid (lovely place, wouldn't rate the lake as quite as scenic as Lake Tahoe, but Ohrid has a much better supply of medieval frescoes than any place on Lake Tahoe).

Bosnia has people who almost all speak the same language but are divided by religion (in many cases family tradition rather than personal belief). The Republic of Macedonia has a majority who speak one language (closely related to Bulgarian) and a large minority which speaks a completely different language, only distantly related (both are Indo-European languages).

If the Serbs in Bosnia ever manage to secede from Bosnia and Herzegovina, that might encourage the Albanians in Macedonia to try to break away, but joining Albania or Kosovo may not hold that much appeal, and trying to be independent wouldn't make much sense.