The Whitehouse has the craziest storms seen yet.
FTFW.
Jupiter has the strangest storm behavior observed to date, with formation patterns that have never been seen elsewhere. The latest pictures taken from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal the hidden cyclones at its poles. At the north pole, eight swirling storms circled another storm at the center, and at the south pole, another five …
"They were three. And one wasn't a guy - Carolyn Shoemaker."
Oops, yes. It was a long time ago and I was posting from memory. Someone should invent a way of scouring the worlds knowledge to help mitigate against things like this. Possibly involving computers.
They're certainly interesting but I suspect that the number of vortices at each pole varies over time as new storms migrate towards the poles and old storms merge. The northern polar storm system clearly includes two smaller storms within the large central cyclone and, like the image of the southern pole, also shows several additional smaller cyclones outside the central arrangement.
The octagonal (not octahedral, which means an eight faced solid) at the north pole actually looks closer to being a rather shonky square.
This is not to say that they don't last for quite a long time - I'd guesstimate that they're several thousand km across and anything that size is going to maintain its identity for quite a while, but I think that describing them as being "...extraordinarily stable arrangements..." is a bit premature for something that we've only been able to observe since Juno arrived, less than two years ago.
... where hell is!
Next step is pope sponsers space exploration to find heaven.
Then we can try to find this so called god/allah everyone claims exists ;-)
Lets do this, find out once and for all what is true and what is not, or if it's all a load of smelly stuff.
Note: I follow science, not religion.
But with that said I'd still like to see god disproven or even proven.
To learn more we must try to push past what we already know ;-).
The minute you say "I don't know that, may as well stop" is when you stop progressing. So sure, we don't know. But to learn that knowledge we must push forward and attempt it anyway, regardless of how often we fail.
Pick yourself up and try again and all that.
Oh you'll never get to heaven,
In a baked bean tin.
Cos a baked bean tin's
Got baked beans in.
...
Oh you'll never get to heaven,
On a sheet of glass.
Cos a sheet of glass
Will cut your arse.
[oh dear. It appears that once I've stuffed some lyrics into my brain, however stupid, I'm stuck with them forever.]
But with that said I'd still like to see god disproven or even proven.
If we're living inside a simulation of the universe there's a good case to be made for its project manager being god, team members being the angels and the devil a team member who was sacked for insubordination or goofing off.