Ok people heres the deal..
Jupiters all messed up and such
the scientist dude said that it could be caused by valcanoes or something of the like.

IMPOSSIBLE

Jupiter is a gas giant

ITS NOT SOLID!

whered they get that Idea??/


CATFISH

Joviality... volcanoes... a hahaha ha... a scientist actually said that?!? Perhaps it is liquid hydrogen outgassing, though vulcanism seems unlikely. However, the material is thought to exist in a metallic state, maybe that's why a volcano is implicated.

Does anyone remember the "dark spot" that appeared on the planet not long ago? Could there be a causal relationship? As I recall, the spot appeared at approximately the same latitude as the bluish banding. If anyone is aware of such a correlation, please post to that effect.

Valcanoes need magma and stuff. youd think a qualified scientist would know this

CATFISH

No, it is not theorised that Jupiter is completely gaseous. You'd think someone challenging a "qualified scientist" would check this

Its called a 'Gas Giant', but this does not mean it is made entirely of Gas, it has a lot of atmosphere sure, but it also has a huge layer of metallic hydrogen, and a rocky core larger than the earth by a factor of 1.5 or more.

Well thats interesting.

I geuss a "qualified scientist" WOULD check that....

thanks for the update

Catfish

I remember when comet Schumacher crashed into Jupiter... It broke into several pieces before hitting Jupiter. When it crashed, it created several black spots. The same thing could have happened again. Depending on the composition of the comet, it could have created the blue color band.

It was only by chance that someone disovered the Schumacher-Levi comet before it slammed into Jupiter. This might be a new one that we missed.

I'm not too sure about volcanism on Jupiter... The pressure down at the solid core, which is the only place where volcanism could occur, is so high that I have doubts that the gas would go up as high as the upper layers of gas. It would need to be a hell of an explosion too.. That's a pretty big black spot.

that gas around Jupiter call me nuts but this is just an idea (i dont beleive this its just an idea), it sure could be a good way to keep prying eyes out, thing we cant even send anything down onto it yet, but its bigger than Earth by 1.5????

Also how do you know it was a Nuke they sent it might of been some sort of new weapon nuke or better?

[Edited on 13-3-2004 by blobby]

Our science at best says their might be solid hydrogen on the core of it, i have trouble fathamony that but it is entirely possible.

If there is something going on in there because we nuked it(possibly, no way to prove) with out plutonium pellets it should be a lesson for us to be careful with our trash because it might be toxic.

If by some unimagineable miracle there is inteeligent life on Jupiter and they are angry at us nuking them they should have kept tabs on what NASA was doing with the space program and prevented them fromt doing anything beyond stupid.