WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?
Don't forget the other important question:
WHERE ARE THEY?
Jupiter loses a stripe.
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#12On closer inspection, astronomers detected what appears to be a large and rapidly-growing collection of black rectangles on the surface.
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#13"All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there." (A. C. Clarke, "2010")
why? or would that be considered a spoiler to the book?
It would be pretty hard to explain why without explaining 90% of the plot. Fortunately, there is wikipedia, which will do the spoiling for me - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
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#14Interesting article. Normally when I read an article in the form of "some natural phenomenon has stopped occurring", I get worried and think of how the human race is fucking over the planet and we're all going to die, unless we figure out what we did wrong. That was the initial thought that went through my mind when I clicked through to this article. Then I realized, hey... that's another planet. We didn't cause the…
I had a similar thought progression, but then I went from "What did we do?" to "Oh crap is Jupiter going to blow up or something" and finally "Wait, that is stupid"
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#15Interesting article. Normally when I read an article in the form of "some natural phenomenon has stopped occurring", I get worried and think of how the human race is fucking over the planet and we're all going to die, unless we figure out what we did wrong. That was the initial thought that went through my mind when I clicked through to this article. Then I realized, hey... that's another planet. We didn't cause the…
Actually, we probably do want to care about that. We know Earth's environment is changing but be don't really know why. Our planet is a single data point in the solar system, which makes analysis a little difficult.
Is Mars getting warmer or colder? Is Jupiter? Why is Jupiter's atmosphere visibly changing? If all other planets in the solar system are getting warmer/colder, shouldn't we expect Earth's temperature to change as well?
It's like a bright neon sign flashing "Clearly Explained Reason for Increased Solar System Exploration", but the space agency budget folks will likely ignore it and attempt to gain public support through some asinine vision quest thing instead.
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#16conspiracy theories, anyone?
BP was mining for some toxic gas on the surface of the planet when something went horribly wrong. Now they're pumping out 5000 Bcfe's of it per day into the southern hemisphere and its destroyed the red stripe we'd become so accustomed to.
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#17Interesting article. Normally when I read an article in the form of "some natural phenomenon has stopped occurring", I get worried and think of how the human race is fucking over the planet and we're all going to die, unless we figure out what we did wrong. That was the initial thought that went through my mind when I clicked through to this article. Then I realized, hey... that's another planet. We didn't cause the…
Actually, we probably do want to care about that. We know Earth's environment is changing but be don't really know why. Our planet is a single data point in the solar system, which makes analysis a little difficult. Is Mars getting warmer or colder? Is Jupiter? Why is Jupiter's atmosphere visibly changing? If all other planets in the solar system are getting warmer/colder, shouldn't we expect Earth's temperature to c…
I agree that sending probes thought the solar system is interesting, but other planets are not worming.
PS: This is the second time the band has disappeared discovering why that happens may be interesting like the North pole hexagon cloud pattern over Saturn but it's probably not a temperature effect: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060519/full/news060515-17.ht...
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#18Jupiter loses a stripe
Its observed Jupiter has lost a stripe
And now scientists have a new gripe
Conservatives may have much to say
Why the stripe has lost its way
and MSM will be blessed with new type
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, we probably do want to care about that. We know Earth's environment is changing but be don't really know why. Our planet is a single data point in the solar system, which makes analysis a little difficult. Is Mars getting warmer or colder? Is Jupiter? Why is Jupiter's atmosphere visibly changing? If all other planets in the solar system are getting warmer/colder, shouldn't we expect Earth's temperature to c…
I agree that sending probes thought the solar system is interesting, but other planets are not worming. PS: This is the second time the band has disappeared discovering why that happens may be interesting like the North pole hexagon cloud pattern over Saturn but it's probably not a temperature effect: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060519/full/news060515-17.ht...
Do we have sufficient data to conclude that other planets are not warming? How far back does our accurate, consistent measurement go? Years? A decade or two?
I'm not sure we have sufficient data to conclude anything right now. We know astoundingly little about the neighbourhood we live in.
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#20conspiracy theories, anyone?
Their volcano is vacationing on another planet.