Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Date	Tue, 4 Jul 2017 14:25:22 GMT
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In article <xf6dnamuxfX658bEnZ2dnUU7-LWdnZ2d@westnet.com.au>,
Whisper  <beaver999@ozemail.com> wrote:
>On 4/07/2017 3:45 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
>> i'll explain to you what is
>> 
>> Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and why it's red.
>> 
>> 
>> All planets surface is the color red. Earth is the only planet with a
>blue surface color.
>> 
>> 
>> Jupiter is simply making another red planet.
>> 
>> 
>> giving birth to a planet...

OMG, I think I knew where he got this.  Remember the original
COSMOS, when Sagan was spending a few minutes eviscerating
Velikovsky?  Who envisioned Venus having been ejected from
Jupiter and somehow assuming a nearly circular orbit in its
current position?

Sagan walked up to a gigantic model of Jupiter, opened up the Red
Spot (it was on a hinge) and pulled out a model of Venus and
walked away with it.

Starmaker is just deranged enough to have mistaken this
demonstration of what never happened for a prophecy of what's
about to happen.

As for the colors of planets (as seen through atmosphrere from
Earth, mind you), there used to be a saying among classic (I mean
Greco-Roman times), that three astronomical objects shone red:
Sirius, Mars, and Jupiter (but not as red)  Sirius is certainly
not red today, and current astrophysics has no explanation for a
star turning from bright red to bright blue-white.  If ever I
meet an astrophysicist, I'll ask him/her, "What's your
hypothesis," and if the answer is "I haven't got one," I'll take
that as an honest answer.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

Thread

Jupiter's Great Red Spot  The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-03 10:45 -0700
  Jupiter's Great Red Spot "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-03 11:40 -0700
  Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot Whisper <beaver999@ozemail.com> - 2017-07-04 21:22 +1000
    Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-07-04 15:03 +0200
    Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-07-04 14:25 +0000
      Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-07-04 18:08 +0200
      Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2017-07-11 07:08 -0600
    Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-04 12:13 -0700
      Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot Whisper <beaver999@ozemail.com> - 2017-07-05 19:29 +1000
        Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-05 11:39 -0700
          Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-08 12:22 -0700
  Re: Jupiter's Great Red Spot  Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2017-07-04 08:31 -0700

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