Comments on: I have a spot named after me!

By: Ty Pex

Ty Pex — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:06:44 +0000

I wonder – would there be any cosmic significance if an object named after you vanishes from the universe?

But more importantly, what does this new storm activity indicate about trends in global warming!

By: Melusine

Melusine — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:22:39 +0000

Kevin Rosero Says:

March 18th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Call that a Jovian grin.
Psst…that was the point.

By: Kevin Rosero

Kevin Rosero — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:17:07 +0000

Call that a Jovian grin.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:08:28 +0000

So, are you saying someone thought your head is like a whirling storm system that has been getting redder and redder?

Perhaps if NASA keeps cutting unmanned science missions that could be an apt analogy. Oval BA could go GRS in time…you never know.

[Of course I'm writing this with a jovial grin on my face. ]

By: icemith

icemith — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:20:27 +0000

hithespothehithespothehithespothehithespothehithespothehithespothehithespot
spothehithespothehithespothehithespothehithespothehithespothehithespothehit

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:31:03 +0000

I guess a spot’s better than a blemish, right?

By: Supernova

Supernova — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:04:49 +0000

Hey, we could start selling the names of Jupiter spots the way they sell the names of stars!

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:41:43 +0000

And I thought the B612 was the best route across the Pennines when the A66 is blocked…

By: Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:50:28 +0000

Clear, clear evidence for intelligent design.

By: Ozastro

Ozastro — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:25:32 +0000

Oh, goodie we have some good anagrams:
BBA VOL
ABA VOL
ALB OVA
LAB OVA
BOA VAL

So a book, an egg or a snake? Hmmmm

Perhaps LAVABO where the priest of the god Jupiter washes his hands?

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:19:35 +0000

I thought the smallest known asteroid was B-612, home to a flower, a few (hopefully extinct) volcanoes and a little prince. . . .

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:05:03 +0000

Oval BA spelled backwards is “ablavo.”

By: aiabx

aiabx — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:50:34 +0000

Not just a spot.. a planet! Or a planetoid, anyway. Ok, a rock.

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215468/asteroids.htm

“The smallest known asteroid is called 1991 BA and is only 20 feet in diameter.”

If that isn’t glory, I don’t know what is.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:21:14 +0000

Nah, it’s Io that looks like a pizza. Those cloud bands make Jupiter look more like a lasagna, or maybe a hydrogen-helium stromboli which wasn’t large enough to achieve nuclear fusion.

To adapt Richard Feynman’s phrase, what men are poets who could speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense gaseous lasagna must be silent?

By: RAD

RAD — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:17:27 +0000

does this have any possible real life connotations?

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:09:04 +0000

With all those red spots, I think we should rename Jupiter to Pizza Face.