# Jupiter's growing a new red spot **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959 "2006-03-03T20:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/1 "2006-03-03T20:56:04Z")
[It’s probably not supposed to do that](http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060303_jupiter_spot.html): > [@](#): > > Backyard astronomers, grab your telescopes. Jupiter is growing a new red spot. > > The official name of the new storm is “Oval BA,” but “Red Jr.” might be better. It’s about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color. > > Oval BA first appeared in the year 2000 when three smaller spots collided and merged. Using Hubble and other telescopes, astronomers watched with great interest. A similar merger that happened centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old. > > Oval BA has been changing colors in recent months. It was white in November 2005, slowly turned brown in December and then red a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/2 "2006-03-03T21:00:33Z")
Probably due to global warming from greenhouse gas emmisions. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/3 "2006-03-03T21:18:32Z")
The teen years are the hardest on planets, especially ones that are already getting teased for being so-called “gas giants.” Asteroids can be so cruel. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/4 "2006-03-03T21:35:40Z")
> [@cards](#): > > Probably due to global warming from greenhouse gas emmisions. And, of course, it’s all George Bush’s fault. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/5 "2006-03-03T21:49:37Z")
Better have that looked at. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/6 "2006-03-03T22:03:00Z")
Oh, heck. I KNEW I shouldn’t have pushed that red button labeled “Do Not Depress This Button” we have on the wall of the computer room. I so apologize! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/7 "2006-03-03T22:29:58Z")
> [@Jpeg Jones](#): > > Better have that looked at. Nah, it’s “Jupiter have that looked at.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/8 "2006-03-03T22:33:58Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > Oh, heck. I KNEW I shouldn’t have pushed that red button labeled “Do Not Depress This Button” we have on the wall of the computer room. Unless you told the button that it was destined to be junked alone and unloved, never having known the gentle caress of the finger of someone who really understood it, I believe you are blameless. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/9 "2006-03-03T22:42:20Z")
I wonder what role, if any, the Comet Impact had on this. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/10 "2006-03-04T03:22:33Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > I wonder what role, if any, the Comet Impact had on this. 🆒 That’s what happens when you get penetrated without protection. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/11 "2006-03-04T03:54:06Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > And, of course, it’s all George Bush’s fault. 😉 Fool! Blame Clinton! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/12 "2006-03-04T05:13:54Z")
I did not have spots with that planet. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/13 "2006-03-04T05:14:20Z")
It better not be malignant… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/14 "2006-03-04T05:34:33Z")
I heard that recent findings of long-lost notes by scientific great [Erich Van Daniken](http://www.chariotsofthegods.com/) prove that the Polynesians predicted that Jupiter would eject another Venus-sized blob of planet, which will spin out of Jupiterian orbit and destroy the Earth on whatever day the Mayan calendar ends. This new planet will then become the New Earth, where life will begin anew, fresh, without the curse of humanity. Buy your going-away gifts early. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/15 "2006-03-04T05:48:29Z")
A hot, wet compress should get that to come to a head. Then we’ll have dozens of dopers in here wanting to squeeze it. It’ll make that “butt-pimple video” barely worth viewing! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/16 "2006-03-04T06:17:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > This new planet will then become the New Earth, where life will begin anew, fresh, without the curse of humanity. The _Hell_ it will…if we see the Nemesis coming, lets nuke the ever loving crap out of it before it gets us. Try stealing Earth’s thunder when you’re swimming in Cobalt-Thorium G, you primordial alien bastards! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/17 "2006-03-04T06:22:13Z")
I bet a monolith is responsible. ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/18 "2006-03-04T06:42:52Z")
something is going to happen. Something…wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/19 "2006-03-04T06:51:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I heard that recent findings of long-lost notes by scientific great [Erich Van Daniken](http://www.chariotsofthegods.com/) prove that the Polynesians predicted that Jupiter would eject another Venus-sized blob of planet, which will spin out of Jupiterian orbit and destroy the Earth on whatever day the Mayan calendar ends. This new planet will then become the New Earth, where life will begin anew, fresh, without the curse of humanity. > > Buy your going-away gifts early. _Please! Please! Please! Let this happen!_ [tin foil hat] This is why they’re remaking _When Worlds Collide_! It’s to prepare us for when this happens![/tfh] [Steve Martin] How many people here remember when the Earth blew up? [/SM] ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959/20 "2006-03-04T10:26:45Z")
Use Preparation A. Soothes sensitive areas and gets rid of asteroids. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jupiters-growing-a-new-red-spot/346959.md?page=2)