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[chickdigger802]

VR of jupiter over your head,

shits myself

 

[PjotrStroganov]

I find Saturn to be even creepier. It looks like an emotionless cold and grey giant. Jupiter looks so much more lively.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

I don't think it's real. I did a search, and found the real recording of Jupiter by Voyager on the NASA site:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/index-flash.html

Well, just to ruin my party, what I posted was from Contact.

 

[Windam]

I don't think it's real. I did a search, and found the real recording of Jupiter by Voyager on the NASA site:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/index-flash.html

That chirping is even worse.

 

[R-User!]

Jupiter: Our Solar Systems' garbage disposal: always on, always menacing...

 

[youngplaya21]

What is the eye? What exists there? More sand (I have no idea) than anywhere else on the planet?

Just a massive storm, or so I thought

 

[y2dvd]

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Jupiter. As recent as 2010, it was absorbing earth-sized asteroids like a boss. We salute you, Jupiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

 

[GillianSeed79]

Jupiter is misunderstood. It's more our protector than anything else. From what I understand, if it weren't for Jupiter's gravity, we'd be getting pelted with asteroids and shit left and right from the outer solar system.

Edit: Beaten

 

[ChuyMasta]

Jupiter is misunderstood. It's more our protector than anything else. From what I understand, if it weren't for Jupiter's gravity, we'd be getting pelted with asteroids and shit left and right from the outer solar system.

Edit: Beaten

I dont know how to feel about the one Jupiter missed some million years ago

 

[User 73706]

What are the objects, off center, outside of mars? Not the pink objects (assume the pink is the asteroid belt). I'm referring to the yellow objects.

I'd assume dwarf planetes / celestial dwarves. Isn't Ceres somewhere in that general region?

 

[LumpOfCole]

Jupiter just seems mad that it isn't big enough to be a star.

 

[Hitokage]

Jupiter is misunderstood. It's more our protector than anything else. From what I understand, if it weren't for Jupiter's gravity, we'd be getting pelted with asteroids and shit left and right from the outer solar system.

Edit: Beaten

At the same time, Jupiter is the reason we have an asteroid belt and not another planet.

 

[Manu]

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Jupiter. As recent as 2010, it was absorbing earth-sized asteroids like a boss. We salute you, Jupiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

Look at the size of that explosion. It would've completely destroyed the Earth.

 

[Camp Lo]

Look at the size of that explosion. It would've completely destroyed the Earth.

Looks like that shit would have wiped out a couple dozen Earths.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Look at the size of that explosion. It would've completely destroyed the Earth.

We still got Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Steve Buscemi.

 

[Hitokage]

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Jupiter. As recent as 2010, it was absorbing earth-sized asteroids like a boss. We salute you, Jupiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

There are no Earth-sized asteroids. In 2010 Jupiter was with with an object around 10 meters in diameter. The energy from the impact is still enormous, though.

 

[leadbelly]

I would love to see what one of those storms looks like from the ground.

 

[Arkos]

I feel you OP. It's big enough and close enough to be terrifying, but far enough away to be completely ignorable and able to be admired from a distance. The invisible hand that catches all our asteroids. *brofist* Jupiter.

 

[Zane]

 

[VariantX]

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Jupiter. As recent as 2010, it was absorbing earth-sized asteroids like a boss. We salute you, Jupiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

Asteroids do not get to be the size of the earth and still be called asteroids.

 

[leadbelly]

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Jupiter. As recent as 2010, it was absorbing earth-sized asteroids like a boss. We salute you, Jupiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

That asteroid wasn't shit to Jupiter. He just felt something tickling his belly.

 

[Clydefrog]

:lol That dude in blue on the last frame...

I like the first two kicks the green guy does

 

[heyf00L]

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.

There's no sound is space because sound has to travel through a medium and space is a vacuum.

Those "sounds" are electromagnetic waves made by Jupiter's rotation (same as Earth's magnetic field) which for some unknown reason someone decided to "convert" to sound waves.

 

[SkyOdin]

What are the objects, off center, outside of mars? Not the pink objects (assume the pink is the asteroid belt). I'm referring to the yellow objects.

Probably Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea: the four largest objects in the asteroid belt that combined account for half of its total mass.

What is interesting about that picture is that it seems to be missing a lot of the asteroids that are influenced by Jupiter's gravity. The pink dots in that image all seem to be Hilda family asteroids, which are actually a distinct category from the main asteroid belt. Notably missing from that image (but can be seen in a related image) are the Jupiter Trojans, two large masses of asteroids permanently caught in the Jupiter/Sun L4 and L5 Lagrange points (two of the points of the triangle those pink dots are making). The total number of Jupiter Trojans is as large as the combined number found in the entire asteroid belt, but concentrated into a smaller area.

Link to a Wikipedia image showing all of these asteroids.

 

[The Last One]

What about this?

 

[Demon Lizardman]

I don't know about you, but Jupiter is pretty cute. <3

 

[Javaman]

Jupiter is a bro. He catches asteroids for us and shit

edit:

*brofist*

Isn't it Jupiter and Saturn's fault that shit from the port cloud keep getting flung through our solar system? I thought those two act like a destabilizing factor, especially when their orbits line up with the sun.

 

[zeemumu]

Now all I can think of is this.

 

[Megalosaro]

From my understanding, Jupiter is actually MUCH smaller than it once was. It's actually shrinking, since it gives off more heat then it takes in from the sun. It loses 2cm from it's diameter per year.

Since it's creation, it's actually half as big as it used to be

 

[-COOLIO-]

i enjoyed your op.

jupiter is awesome though, it saves us from space debris. like a big bro.

 

[-COOLIO-]

From my understanding, Jupiter is actually MUCH smaller than it once was. It's actually shrinking, since it gives off more heat then it takes in from the sun. It loses 2cm from it's diameter per year.

Since it's creation, it's actually half as big as it used to be

it only losses 2cm per year? a planet?

jupiter, do you even lift?

 

[kess]

I find Saturn to be even creepier. It looks like an emotionless cold and grey giant. Jupiter looks so much more lively.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Why is Ice Cube promoting a Saturn game?

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Jupiter. As recent as 2010, it was absorbing earth-sized asteroids like a boss. We salute you, Jupiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5KXdvvvfQ

Um, that looks fake as hell. Looks to be the size of the 'eye' on Jupiter, then it disappears within a small window of time? No cloud remnant? Levy Schumacher left a few spots for months and was in the news for months and probably led to two Hollywood movies. I'm sure Bruce Willis would be the first to know.

Wouldn't we have heard about this earth sized object colliding with the largest planet in our solar system? Based on size, that's the largest explosion ever recorded by man. Just looking at the you tube comments will clue you in.

Edit: Never mind, the tag says 'captured with my webcam and long view'

That's an admission to me.

 

[Extollere]

I dont know how to feel about the one Jupiter missed some million years ago

If you're talking about the one that hit some 65 million years ago in Mexico, then you should feel fucking great about it. Probably wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for that.

 

[Ferr986]

I don't think it's real. I did a search, and found the real recording of Jupiter by Voyager on the NASA site:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/index-flash.html

damn, that Saturn auroras sounds.... eerie as fuck

 

[Clydefrog]

if Jupiter is such a bro, then it needs a nickname.

Jupes? Jupey? JupityJoeJoeJrShabadoo?

 

[televator]

I dont know how to feel about the one Jupiter missed some million years ago

You'd be living the life of a primitive shrew, living in terror underground, beneath the feet of the most fearsome animals that ever existed on this planet if that had never happened.

 

[Mr Swine]

I don't know about you, but Jupiter is pretty cute. <3

If you stare long enough at her armpit it looks like its a mouth!

I think Jupiter is cool, my favorite planet of course

 

[terrisus]

Unless I missed it, I'm disappointed no one has congratulated the OP on the "By Jove"/Jupiter reference connection.

 

[Dai101]

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.

 

[Raistlin]

I've had dreams of standing on Earth, slowly watching as we descend into Jupiter's Horizon[/URL], awakening in shock at the immensity I was feeling.

I used to have a similar dream often-ish. Though typically it was more than one gas giant (including at least some with visible rings).


Definitely made me feel small and pointless.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Since Jupiter is a gaseous planet, could you fly through it? A solid object couldn't "land" on Jupiter could it? It would descend to the core?

 

[tuffy]

Since Jupiter is a gaseous planet, could you fly through it? A solid object couldn't "land" on Jupiter could it? It would descend to the core?

I don't think much of anything would survive the pressure, but a lot of details about Jupiter's internal composition are still hypothetical.

 

[Dai101]

JupityJoeJoeJrShabadoo?

That's the worst name ever.

 

[Suen]

The great dark spot is more beautiful though.

#Neptune

 

[Replicant]

It's coming for you all:

 

[heliosRAzi]

These guys will help out

 

[Xenex]

What about this?

We are nothing more than a dust particle.

 

[GungHo]

"don't masturbate"

Why would it say that? Maybe it wants more of a show the next time you pull one out.

 

[Red Mage]

I've always liked to imagine Jupiter as some kind of prison for a metaphysical being of some sort, bound at the center for an unknown crime millions of years ago. The winds and storms being both what bounds it, as well as being fed by the rage it directs towards our existence. However, sometimes I wonder if it's not so much rage as madness.

Yes, I'm weird. = o