BF2S Forums Something big has hit Jupiter

DonFck wrote:

It's a good thing we've got something as big as Jupiter in our solar system to take the hits for us little planets.

Replace 'Jupiter' with 'Heavy Weapons Guy' and we've got TF2 in our heads now.

Thanks Heavy Jupiter.

_{I'm not crazy.}

Kmarion wrote:

Real big.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 … mpact.html
http://i36.tinypic.com/alnt5e.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/23k9sb6.jpg

^{This image shows a large impact shown on the bottom left
on Jupiter's south polar region captured on July 20, 2009, by NASA's
Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Infrared Telescope Facility}

"We were extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," said Glenn Orton, a scientist at JPL.

Orton and his team of astronomers kicked into gear early in the morning and haven't stopped tracking the planet. They are downloading data now and are working to get additional observing time on this and other telescopes.

This image was taken at 1.65 microns, a wavelength sensitive to sunlight reflected from high in Jupiter's atmosphere, and it shows both the bright center of the scar (bottom left) and the debris to its northwest (upper left).

"It could be the impact of a comet, but we don't know for sure yet," said Orton. "It's been a whirlwind of a day, and this on the anniversary of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Apollo anniversaries is amazing."

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Nice timing.. Shoemaker-Levy anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AIt36-whc

Maybe this has something to do with it. http://www.enterprisemission.com/NukingJupiter.html

RavyGravy wrote:

mcminty wrote:

Toilet Sex wrote:

Like 1927, I can't get my head around the sheer size of planets like Jupiter. tis mind blowing. like the 1,000+ Earths that can fit inside Jupiter or something? wtf? it's insane.

Lol yeah, this stuff is beyond comprehension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

:S

holy fucksticks!

And I thought L.A. was big!

CrazeD wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

What? So you actually, literally believe that God made the Earth and everything on it in 6 days? You don't believe it's some sort of metaphor or something, you actually, literally believe that?

LOL, no self respecting Christian believes that. So I'm now all the more curious for his answer.

Every Christian that believes in the Bible believes that. If you say you are a Christian but don't believe the Bible, then you are not a Christian.

At least my belief is consistent. Every other theory I hear is always different, or slightly changed, or over ruled by a more believable belief...etc. It seems whenever they find a flaw, they come up with some other stupid theory instead.

I'm sure I'm not the only Christian here. Maybe the others are just too scared of getting flamed.

Wow.

Very few Christians believe the Bible to be the literal truth. I've certainly never met any, that includes members of the clergy.

These crazy inconsistent theories you go on about have tangible evidence that they are accurate. They are extremely crazy and complex and there are tweaks being made to them all the time. But the accuracy of these theories is not really in question. It is known that they are accurate to a particular point, since they lead to all the technological marvels mankind produces these days. If the theories were not extremely accurate many of the things we take for granted would not be possible. That's how people can tell the theories work (not neccessarily that they're right, but they are a close enough approximation) and that's just physical theories. If things like quantum mechanics were not extremely accurate we would not have things like computers.

Then there's the age of the Earth. Dating very old stuff with a high degree of accuracy is difficult, but the idea that calculations are off by that much is absurd. The Earth is about 4 billion years old, that's a lot more than 4000 - as the Bible tells us it is. The weight of evidence supporting this is truly immense.

I consider some bloke in the sky knocking up the Earth and the rest of the universe in a few days to be a hilarious concept - compared to how the Earth was actually created. The product of a wide range of random elements produced in supernovas of very heavy stars capable of producing heavy enough elements through fusion under immense pressure. Elements which then grouped together over time due to gravity (it took about 14 billion years for all this to happen) and reacted with each other over time to form the Earth we know today. That's where matter comes from, all of it, from supernovas. The heavier the star, the heavier the elements it is capable of producing.

Then we have people, animals and plants and the vast body of evidence showing the development of a huge range of life over millions of years. Dinosaurs, evolutionary by-products (like vestigial limbs on a number of animals, like whales - or even the appendix), fossils, near humans (like neanderthals), systemic evolutionary spread patterns across vast regions like the Pacific and all the other stuff...

It's just strange these days, given all the things scientific methods have brought us due to their accuracy, to find someone (who is presumably educated and aware of a good deal of this stuff) who so completely ignores all the rational evidence of how the world around us is and was. It's sad really. You will never appreciate the graceful majesty of how the universe works (not that anyone has a complete picture).

1927 wrote:

I dunno what your all going on 'abrt' Jesus never went to space, the first space shuttle landing n blast off wasn't until 1896, and as we know Jesus copped it in 1754.

Mate. Drink less plumber fluids. I'm starting to get worried here.

Ultrafunkula wrote:

1927 wrote:

I dunno what your all going on 'abrt' Jesus never went to space, the first space shuttle landing n blast off wasn't until 1896, and as we know Jesus copped it in 1754.

Mate. Drink less plumber fluids. I'm starting to get worried here.

I been on the meths mate

CrazeD wrote:

They can never make up their minds. It's almost as if they don't believe what they are saying themselves.

That's the point. If you doubt the factual nature of any conclusion, your mind remains open to new ideas.