"but mightn't that damage jupiter?"

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galileo plunging to doom as you read

(the thead q is what the C4 newsreader asked the scientist from the royal observatory, who burst out laughing)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

there a live webcast of the final broadcast images somewhere, supposedly

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

bye!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

gah, found it quicker than I, hasn't loaded yet though.

We just send tracer on a mission to clapton square. Mail me your IP address.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i think traffic is heavy to that site

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

All hail. It's been interesting living through that all because right when I first got into astronomy in the late seventies, Galileo was this project already being planned and talked about with excitement, still recall the various 'artist's depictions' of what the original atmosphere probe voyage would be like. It's been a treat to see everything come together as it has, despite all the problems along the way -- I still wish the main broadcast antenna had worked. Bring on Cassini -- it's the last probe of an era of such planned missions.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't been able to connect to the webcast but it would probably make me spooked out and sad anyway

― jones (actual), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.strafe.com/2001/hal.jpg

"My mind is going..."

― ModJ, Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i think traffic is heavy to that site
the
Slashdot herd found out about it, and all of them are clogging the bandwidth.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The JPL's webcast starts roughly now, and should last about two hours (light delay). Don't miss the view from the prow and impact animations

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i still can't get thru so i'm listening to r kelly and pretending not to think about it.

space is lonely.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(yet funky)

― jones (actual), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

tracer's clapton probe got caught in dalston junction's powerful gravitional field apparently

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I do love how slahdot can fell all but the sturdiest websites with a single piqued interest.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I just recalled that gallileo was the probe with the radio dish that didn't open properly, still immense traffic to the nasa servers.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

result, a screen with numbers on it.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

what are ERT and SCET?

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"oh no! jupiter is ruined!" that's hysterical. Always think, think, think before talking.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I dunno, it was a reasonable leading question. It's being purposefully crashed into Jupiter to avoid contaminating Europa's fine selection of Ritter Sport chocolate, er, sub-surface ocean. I think, "What about contaminating Jupiter?" is fair enough. Obv, it's gonna be vapour before it gets very far, but it's worth teasing this kinda detail out.

Remember when we believed that huge totally blind whale-like methane-breathing creatures swam through the thick Jovian atmos? Or was that just me and Heather C**per?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 22 September 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody will be excited by this, but the GEM was/is going to feature in my unfinished text adventure. As is Europa, a satellite above Io and the "huge totally blind whale-like methane-breathing creatures" except they're more like cathedral-sized jelly-fish in my mind - VAPOURWARE SPOILERS... a bit near the end of the game is spent crawling through the branching inner bronchia of one looking for coccooned and slowly-dying scientists.

If anyone wants me to finish writing this adventure, I have a PayPal account set up.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 22 September 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

cathedral-sized jelly-fish in your mind wd explain many things alang

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 22 September 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael J otm abt my slight unfairness to the newsreader incidentally: by "damage" he did mean "contaminate" (rather than "break" etc) - but the royal observatory guy DID burst out laughing

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 22 September 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cathedral-sized jellyfish! Yes! I knew they were bigger/more diaphanous.

Mark: I wish I'd seen it. I also wish I'd seen Peter Snow's "But doesn't that mean the robots will take over and kill us all?" from Newsnight a few years back.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 22 September 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I personally would love Heather Coup*r ad her fans to find this thread and start contributing - seems a shame to googleproof her.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 22 September 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ALL THESE PLANETS ARE YOURS EXCEPT THE SURFACE OF JUPITER ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE USE THEM TOGETHER USE THEM IN PEACE

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 22 September 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Something (either an asteroid or comet) may have just hit Jupiter:
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/ObsReport/jupiter-impact.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/19/new-black-spot-on-jupiter/

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 July 2009 03:22 (sixteen years ago)

Jupiter needs to wash its face from time to time if it doesn't want to keep getting blackheads

― c-pwny (latebloomer), Monday, 20 July 2009 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Start double-checking for monoliths again.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 May 2010 14:22 (fifteen years ago)

tracer's clapton probe got caught in dalston junction's powerful gravitional field apparently

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, September 21, 2003 6:41 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have no memory of this

― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 May 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

That's what they WANT you to think.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 May 2010 14:27 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

i guess you can seem them most of the time, but i saw all four galilean moons (with binoculars) tonight for the first time. red spot and other surface features weren't really discernible.

― circles, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)

cathedral-sized jelly-fish in your mind

Just popped in to say Im am nicking this for a song title k thx

― Passive Attack (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://universeacross.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bubble-life-1.png

I remember being so blown away by these pictures when I was a kid...

― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 08:21 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

evidence of water on Europa!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15754786

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago)

ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE

― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago)

haha my first reaction to the story morbs links to was pretty much the same as the newsreader's in the OP: won't they damage or contaminate the water?

― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

eight years pass...

payback time!!

New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth https://t.co/BKFns3XwUW pic.twitter.com/htjUVA0RTk
— New York Post (@nypost) January 9, 2020

― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:16 (five years ago)

If this is giant bugs I'm in

― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:19 (five years ago)

this rogue gas giant has wmds

― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:22 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTz9nIUkGc

― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:27 (five years ago)

http://nautil.us/issue/8/home/the-madness-of-the-planets

But according to Walsh, Jupiter actually formed quite a bit farther out and then, during the solar system’s initial 5 million years, executed a series of dramatic swoops. First it spiraled inward to the place where Mars is now (about 1.5 times the Earth-sun distance), as the dense gas in the nebula dragged it toward the sun. Then it migrated out past its current location, yanked by the gravitational influence of the newly formed planet Saturn. The whole process took about 500,000 years—an eternity in human terms, but blazingly fast for the solar system, which is 4.6 billion years old.

the big warmonger was probably causing much more carnage in the early days according to this piece. The idea of Jupiter on the move is quite terrifying when you you think of it.

― calzino, Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:41 (five years ago)

gotta see both sides

Comet and asteroid strikes are such a cause for concern because they can have devastating impacts on Earth and can even cause mass-extinction events.
However, comets and asteroids hitting Earth when it was young are thought to be the reason that it had the essential ingredients to create life in the first place.

― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:44 (five years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Wic-cover.jpg/200px-Wic-cover.jpg

― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:45 (five years ago)

I saw a doc about that joy-riding Jupiter theory, no mention made of intelligent asteroid-slinging bugs tho

― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:47 (five years ago)

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