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[I'm new be nice]

Few things in life make me queasy but when I think about Jupiter I can't help but feel this tingling sense of dread slowly build up inside me, this feeling of panic rise as I think about the immense scale and power that Jupiter contains.

Just looking at this thing makes me feel uneasy. I've had dreams of standing on Earth, slowly watching as we descend into Jupiter's Horizon, awakening in shock at the immensity I was feeling.

Listening to the electromagnetic sounds of Jupiter is equally horrific, the calm aura beckoning to Voyager stationed at a safe distance. Just imagine accidentally falling towards this thing. A slight mishap and suddenly you are slowly being consumed by it, powerless to fight as it gains larger and larger and larger still, the hint of 360 km/h winds slowly approaching, ready to rip you apart in seconds, if not that then the horrific immensity of gravity crushing you as you whip about in the hot hydrogen compressed so tightly it's freaking liquid. Not to mention the radiation this thing emits.

I know there are far more terrifying objects in the universe, stars that seem incomprehensibly large, black holes billions of times the size of solar masses, but Jupiter has a special place in my heart for some reason. Maybe it's the calm heavenly appearance that masks the reality, maybe it's the fact that we have such clear images of it in our spectrum of light, or maybe it's the fact that we've never seen a video feed of a probe descend into it (just the data), but this gas giant in particular has always fascinated me. I really hope to see and know more about it. I want to see a probe relay some video back as it descends into it until it is crushed by the gravity.

 

[GrizzNKev]

It's because the eye is watching you

 

[Marauder Shields]

It's because the eye is watching you

A great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.

In regards to planets, I've always been a big fan of Pluto. Am still sad that we lost it from our solar system.

 

[diggmcbadass]

This thread seems familiar.

 

[Phaethon0017]

Jupiter is misunderstood. It only looks angry because it's been hurt in the past.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Not half as much as Uranus.

 

[Blablurn]

Not half as much as Uranus.

oh my :lol

 

[Stephen Stills]

Huh, I'm the same way, I've always found Jupiter both fascinating and terrifying since I was a kid.

 

[Tesseract]

alien balloon beings live there

 

[Salmonax]

It's true. So grateful to be kicking it Class M style.

 

[Rezbit]

Well when you put it like that it is kinda scary...

Also yo that sound...scary and vast. Kinda reminds me of that ear piercing hum from 2001.

 

[televator]

Pshhh Jupiter's pretty tame for a gas giant. I mean its atmosphere will probably still rip the flesh off your bones and its gravity well might crush those remaining bones into dust... but there are other gas giants that are almost stars.

....and speaking of stars Jupiter could fall into the sun right now and Sol wouldn't even notice. I've heard that Sol was like 90 percent or more of the matter in this local cluster of our.

 

[freenudemacusers]

It's because the eye is watching you

"don't masturbate"

 

[I'm new be nice]

alien balloon beings live there

Yeah I remember reading that in 2001 a space odyssey. Big ass jelly fish floating around in there with a bunch of little shark things thrown in too. I think Clarks best idea was the lifeforms surrounded by underwater vents on Europa, seemed the most plausible and akin to what we have on Earth compared to a bunch of huge jelly fish in hellish winds.

 

[Divius]

A great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.

.

 

[ElbowRocket]

So you're saying we drill?

 

[Log4Girlz]

alien balloon beings live there

They are excellent dancers

 

[I'm new be nice]

So you're saying we drill?

It smokes, we poke

 

[royalan]

I still think The Eye is the side-effect of the cloaking system of an alien mining station.

 

[trinest]

Pshhh Jupiter's pretty tame for a gas giant. I mean its atmosphere will probably still rip the flesh off your bones and its gravity well might crush those remaining bones into dust... but there are other gas giants that are almost stars.

Oh do share some freaky gas giant facts please.

 

[kurahador]

Hmmm...this isn't Jupiter's Ascending viral marketing now is it? ಠ_ಠ

Otherwise...yeah, fascinating planet. I always imagining Mass Effect galaxy map music being played when seeing that gif.

 

[Spinluck]

Jupiter is the best of The Planet Suites.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Hmmm...this isn't Jupiter's Ascending viral marketing now is it? ಠ_ಠ

Otherwise...yeah, fascinating planet. I always imagining Mass Effect galaxy map music being played when seeing that gif.

I don't think he's a viral marketer. He's just new, be nice.

 

[1cmanny1]

I love it. Imagine living on one of its moons, and seeing that magnificent bastard in the sky.

 

[ElbowRocket]

Even tho how amazing that planet is, some of my problems still seem bigger.

 

[Zaptruder]

Jupiter's cool man. Leave it alone.

 

[Dion Blaster]

Out of all the crazy shit that has been photographed in the universe, to me Jupiter and Saturn remain the coolest.

 

[I'm new be nice]

I love it. Imagine living on one of its moons, and seeing that magnificent bastard in the sky.

Ala Avatar, yeah so long as it's a stable orbit it would be quite the view

 

[HK-47]

Jupiter's cool man. Leave it alone.

You mean other then the asteroids it pushes into the inner solar system

 

[Spinluck]

 

[I'm new be nice]

You mean other then the asteroids it pushes into the inner solar system

I think it absorbs the deadly ones more no? I had always thought that a gas giant was important for that sort of thing

 

[Blue Ninja]

I'd heard those electromagnetic sounds before, but they still creep me out. Really fascinating.

Pshhh Jupiter's pretty tame for a gas giant. I mean its atmosphere will probably still rip the flesh off your bones and its gravity well might crush those remaining bones into dust... but there are other gas giants that are almost stars.

....and speaking of stars Jupiter could fall into the sun right now and Sol wouldn't even notice. I've heard that Sol was like 90 percent or more of the matter in this local cluster of our.

You're right, at least according to wikipedia. "The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star comprising about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System." Apparently, the sun doesn't have enough mass to go supernova, I didn't know that one.

As far as I know, though, technically 'the local cluster' (or 'local group') refers to a group of galaxies, including our own Milky Way. The sun's only a tiny blip on that scale. You're talking about the solar system.

As for Jupiter, he's the king of the planets, OP, of course he's gonna be scary. I think Saturn is more badass though, honestly, just because of those rings. Just look at this motherfucker, everything wants to be near him and he simply gives no fucks. Not to mention the fact that both Titan and Enceladus, the most likely places for life to have developed in this solar system, are rotating around this monster. Imagine living on one of those moons, looking up, and seeing this dude chillin' in the sky. Saturn gives no fucks.

I always imagine Ligeti's Lux Aeterna playing whenever I see Jupiter and become creeped the out

Fuck, now I will too. That's creepy shit.

 

[Lach]

Jupiter was my first target when going into astrophotography.
What freaked me out is that this jovian monster takes less then 10 hours to rotate around its axis.

Also how clearly the movement of its gas cloud can be seen when recording a movie of only a few minutes. The forces that are batteling on this thing must be incredible!

 

[EVOL 100%]

I always imagine Ligeti's Lux Aeterna playing whenever I see Jupiter and become creeped the out

 

[strata8]

Are you scared of the Sun too OP?

 

[Big-E]

Jupiter is the "good guy" of our solar system. Takes hits for us and doesn't ask for anything in return.

 

[Cromat]

Didn't we have this exact thread once?

 

[I'm new be nice]

Are you scared of the Sun too OP?

Nah man, like I said in the last paragraph I know there's insanely bigger things out there, it''s just something about Jupiter. Maybe it's because you'd burn up long before you got to the Sun but with Jupiter you could get pretty intimate with it.

 

[I'm new be nice]

Didn't we have this exact thread once?

Must have, I guess i'm not alone

 

[sqwarlock]

Listen to this, and you'll change your view of Jupiter. How can something so joyful be so menacing?

 

[abstract alien]

I've always wondered if that sound of Jupiter was real, because it is horrifying to me. I seriously could not stand to live within that noise.

 

[ebullientprism]

Jupiter is the "good guy" of our solar system. Takes hits for us and doesn't ask for anything in return.

Yeah. I remember watching this GIF a year or so ago of something massive colliding into Jupiter. If something that big hit earth, its bye bye to everything.

 

[Blargonaut]

edit: Get it... 'cause Jupiter is totally the Roman version of Zeus, and you're all like, 'Ew, no Jupiter' which is like what Hades is feeling, all 'Ew, no Zeus' so it's, you know, yeah.

 

[Trent Strong]

All the gas giants are fucking terrifying. I've always felt a strange fear looking at them since I was a little kid.

 

[The Librarian]

I never saw Jupiter as terrifying. It's a stable giant.

Now, black holes – those are the most terrifying objects in the universe.

 

[Kid Ska]

That black and white gif is a little unsettling, actually.

 

[rasberryjam]

Now imagine if it was made of spiders and still moving like that.

 

[Mr-Joker]

Yeah Jupiter is cool but I prefer Neptune for some reason.

 

[Ovid]

Quoted for size.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful.