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Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by pavlov »

throwaway0255 wrote: post #6

Really interesting content but this site has one of the most aggressive, unpredictable and annoying slide-down headers I've ever seen. Displaying written content on the web should be so simple, yet all the content producers have invented their own special blend of ways to fuck it up. Slide-down headers. Share links widgets that overlap content. Video plays without asking and follows you down the page. Entire page lag…

It's a real shame how HTML completely screwed up the "markup" part by not offering a separate API for UI chrome. If Netscape had offered some way to define navigation separately from the textual content, it might still have saved us. Now it's all just a jumble: documents that describe UI views that describe document fragments that describe UI controls.

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Post by crygin »

Double_Cast wrote: post #12

So... do astronomers truly have no idea why the 9 polar cyclones don't combine? I can't imagine what mechanism might prevent this.

It's a relatively common phenomenon in hydrodynamics (specifically, the formation of large separated cyclones in unstable flow), and the best explanation is delightful -- Onsager's "The Little Vortices Who Wanted To Play" (a letter to Linus Pauling, reproduced on page 33 of this PDF: http://bactra.org/sloth/eyink-and-sreenivasan-on-onsager-on-... ).

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by pure_ambition »

Jupiter is so cool.

Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s.

Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets.

Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (the Galilean moons), in that order.

One question I’ve always had and hope to learn one day: what the heck is Jupiter’s “surface” like? I know it’s believe to be essentially layers of metallic hydrogen, but what the heck does that even mean? What would it look like? So interesting.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by GaltMidas »

pure_ambition wrote: post #15

Jupiter is so cool. Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s. Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets. Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (th…

Maybe it's like Earth's liquid iron mantle?

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by dperfect »

pure_ambition wrote: post #15

Jupiter is so cool. Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s. Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets. Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (th…

It might not exactly answer your question, but you may enjoy this description of what it would be like to fall into Jupiter:

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5041

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by wruza »

throwaway0255 wrote: post #6

Really interesting content but this site has one of the most aggressive, unpredictable and annoying slide-down headers I've ever seen. Displaying written content on the web should be so simple, yet all the content producers have invented their own special blend of ways to fuck it up. Slide-down headers. Share links widgets that overlap content. Video plays without asking and follows you down the page. Entire page lag…

I hope annoy blockers will be next internet thing soon. Block interacts with scroll - blocked. Big blocks overlap - blocked one that has less text. Inserts itself in-between later than 3 seconds after load - blocked. Looks like header - blocked. “This site is completely idiotic and can harm your senses, are you sure you want to visit it at all?”

Flash ads seem like toys now compared to this weapon of mass ux destruction.

Re: Jupiter is deep

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Post by JacobAldridge »

pure_ambition wrote: post #15

Jupiter is so cool. Fun fact, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a huge storm that has been raging for at least 188 years if not much longer. It also has a diameter about 2-3 times as wide as Earth’s. Jupiter also is believed to be a gravitational shield that protects us from asteroids and comets. Jupiter is also Home to some of the coolest Moons in our solar system, my favorites being Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (th…

Our local cafe recently re-opened as Kallisto; when I first went in, I set up a loyalty card and the owner said 'The system needs a surname, but I discourage using your real personal details.'

So I entered myself as 'Jacob Ganymede'; we've been friends ever since.

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