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Colossal Hurricane-Like Storm Found on Saturn

By Will Dunham, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Nov. 10) - A colossal, swirling storm with a well-developed eye is churning at Saturn's south pole, the first time a truly hurricane-like storm has been detected on a planet other than Earth, NASA images showed on Thursday.

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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I was reading about this last night. A storm 5,000 miles wide, 350 mph winds, clouds 45 miles high! I love storms, I wish there was some way of getting a closer look at this one.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • surferdude
    surferdude Posts: 2,057
    hippiemom wrote:
    I was reading about this last night. A storm 5,000 miles wide, 350 mph winds, clouds 45 miles high! I love storms, I wish there was some way of getting a closer look at this one.
    I wonder how long until we're blamed for climate change on Saturn?
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    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Damn, look at the eye of that storm. It looks like its looking right at you.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    JaneNY wrote:
    Damn, look at the eye of that storm. It looks like its looking right at you.
    If there were any way of surviving being in the middle of that thing, it would have to be the most awe-inspiring experience ever!
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    surferdude wrote:
    I wonder how long until we're blamed for climate change on Saturn?

    i was thinking the same thing - i mean, i'm all for green...but, some people around here are just insanely foolish about it.
    I'll dig a tunnel
    from my window to yours
  • binauralsounds
    binauralsounds Posts: 1,357
    Those dam clowns on Saturn causing global warming drivin around in their SUV's is startin to make me sick!

    :D
  • WindNoSail
    WindNoSail Posts: 580
    Yeah that is very weird....not that I know anything about Saturn but for scientists to say they have never seen anything like this before is interesting.

    Begs the question, why now?

    I hope Al Gore looks into this.
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    WindNoSail wrote:
    Yeah that is very weird....not that I know anything about Saturn but for scientists to say they have never seen anything like this before is interesting.

    Begs the question, why now?

    I hope Al Gore looks into this.

    I think the scale of time in space is totally different than we perceive because of our lifespans. Though scientists say they've never seen anything like this, it doesn't mean it hasn't occurred before. Scientists have probably only been able to observe or measure such a storm in the last few years. Perhaps the last one occurred 10,000 years ago.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008

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