Comments on: Methanic Jupiter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:11:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mixed Nuts » Blog Archive » New pictures of Jupiter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45817 Mixed Nuts » Blog Archive » New pictures of Jupiter Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:56:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45817 [...] my favorite planet. This is from from the Bad Astronomy Blog and was taken by the New Horizons mission to [...] [...] my favorite planet. This is from from the Bad Astronomy Blog and was taken by the New Horizons mission to [...]

]]> By: Lurchgs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45816 Lurchgs Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:30:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45816 darnit - all these years I've been spelling it messianic. darnit – all these years I’ve been spelling it messianic.

]]> By: DCB http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45809 DCB Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:16:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45809 I receive this blog usually via e-mail. Both Classmates.com and netflix put their ads right across the place where you click to go to the next post so if I read comments then I have to either make a comment or close out and come back in to go to the next post. This has been happening for a week or so and I've commented about it before. It is extremely frustrating. I hope it can be fixed....... D. I receive this blog usually via e-mail. Both Classmates.com and netflix put their ads right across the place where you click to go to the next post so if I read comments then I have to either make a comment or close out and come back in to go to the next post. This has been happening for a week or so and I’ve commented about it before. It is extremely frustrating. I hope it can be fixed……. D.

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45810 Tom Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:07:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45810 Cool! Tip it 90 degrees and it makes pretty swell dual monitor wallpaper for my Ubuntu machine. :) Tom Cool!
Tip it 90 degrees and it makes pretty swell dual monitor wallpaper for my Ubuntu machine. :)

Tom

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45815 Gary Ansorge Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:55:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45815 Yummy methane. Just what we need to run our dirty little civilization,,,into the ground. I wonder when Standard Oil will seek gov. funding to go and retrieve some??? GAry 7 From Stephen Webbs book(Where is Everybody) I note that Jupiter, in its particular location and mass, seems to be essential for the formation of rocky bodies with H2O that exist within the suns life zone. Maybe we should be worshiping it???(snicker) Yummy methane. Just what we need to run our dirty little civilization,,,into the ground. I wonder when Standard Oil will seek gov. funding to go and retrieve some???

GAry 7

From Stephen Webbs book(Where is Everybody) I note that Jupiter, in its particular location and mass, seems to be essential for the formation of rocky bodies with H2O that exist within the suns life zone. Maybe we should be worshiping it???(snicker)

]]> By: Darth Robo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45814 Darth Robo Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:24:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45814 "An arbitrary number of Earths could of course fit across the image, as long as you put them far enough away." But anything more than five Earths would be behind Jupiter and we couldn't see 'em. ;-) Very cool pic. Be better in colour, though, but I guess that would miss the point. :-D “An arbitrary number of Earths could of course fit across the image, as long as you put them far enough away.”

But anything more than five Earths would be behind Jupiter and we couldn’t see ‘em.
;-)

Very cool pic. Be better in colour, though, but I guess that would miss the point.
:-D

]]> By: erlando http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45813 erlando Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:49:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45813 Absolutely stunning! I like the fractal-like patterns around the equator. Absolutely stunning! I like the fractal-like patterns around the equator.

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