Jupiter could eliminate life on Earth

*starts making list of to-do's before I die*

Jupiter, you too?

atmospheric storms do not equal giant solar system wide nuke. and jsut because callisto has a heavily cratered surface (meaning it is old) doesn't mean it has "never exploded" and therefore needs to.
all we have of callisto are surface images, and it is widely believed to be as geologically active as our own moon (ie. not at all).
this article is baseless and throws around a bunch of end of the world scares and that is about it.

downvoted.

This is according to a Pravda report. Pravda = not very reliable, to say the least.

what the fuck belanie!

no it couldn't. not enough mass. how does this shit get on here?

JUST WHAT WE NEED! Another theory of how the world will end or change in the year 2012, fantastic.

Lets be thankful for being around this long cos it seems a lot could go wrong to snuff us out of existence & this don't include our race to self annihilation.But rest assured our ticket-to-ride would expire 1 day so why hurry the inevitable?

uranus could eliminate the earth too or is just jupiter? what?

Its the end of the world! (sarcasm)

And we are worried about if the repulicans or the democrats are going to win on Dancing with the Stars?

Jupiter, you used to be my favorite planet. What happened to you? You've changed, man.

It is time to pull a planet druidia from spaceballs and make an airshield!

I'm going to write this off as something we should not worry about.

unless anthropogenic global warming somehow is affecting the rest of our solar system? or maybe we're throwing celestial bodies out of orbit with all our satelites and shit.

MOST LIKELY THOUGH ---- it's HAARP

Somebody call Inspector Gadget!

i hate this kind of news they make me paranoid.

OMG JUPITER AND ITS MOONS ARE GUNNA KILL ALL LIFE ON EARTH? I'd like to see them try and get rid of all the cockroaches. 300 million years and counting.

Jupiter might just disprove the bible.

I am going to be asking Jehova's Witnesses about this one!

I guess nobody remembers the nukes that were crashed into Jupiter on board Galileo in 2003 and the black spot that appeared a month later. I wonder if that started a chain reaction?

"There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it!"

Im not worried, if anything goes wrong we send Bruce Willis up there with Billy Bob Thorton and Steve Buscemi to blow it up!

for something like that to happen in our life time would be the greatest event of all times. what a way to go out. i'm going to get a telescope.

Damn, Jupiter just has it out for us. well, it's gotta happen sometime, eh? Maybe yellowstone will beat jupiter to the punch, or global warming.

Ahhhhhhhhhh it's 2010!

Arthur C. Clark was fucking on to something.

Ahhhhhh.

Life on Earth is truly a miracle - there really is no other place like it and everything in its place makes Earth possible. It was not created to last forever.

Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that at all; I can't remember from astronomy class, to be able to verify.

To get a good idea of how hot Jupiter is, just think of how far Jupiter is from the Sun(778 million kilometers = 5.20060429 Astronomical Units; which means that Jupiter is 5.2 times the distance Earth is from the Sun), and how hot it still is(the hottest planet in our solar system, at least), that far away from the Sun.. To me, these storms show how random the conditions on Jupiter are, and just how subject our lives are to this chaotic system; and, therefore, just how little we matter in the big cosmological scheme of things..

It's the end of the world as we know it! And I feel fine!

I think it would be neat if instead of killing us, it gave some of us superhuman powers.

Thinking back, didn`t an astrophysicist say not long ago, that if Jupiter was 2000 deg hotter, it would be a star.
Two suns, now that would be interesting.

Well, this sucks.

Dude, I don't really like the source of this article. It doesn't even tell you who the author is. I'm gonna rely on the "could" destroy earth. Just like every other planet "could."

This is Yet, another Discovery created to excuse Nuclear enrichment to create Weapons that would "Protect Us"

Awwww, earlytapemusic! You ruined all the sensationalistic fun by making this story pseudo-legit. I'm going to go hide under my desk now.

This is definitely not good news. As some of you may know, Jupiter's weather is largely the result of it having an internal heat source, in addition to the energy absorbed by the Sun; this energy is due to the continual contraction, releasing energy from the days of the accretion disk. These new storms indicate an increased Coriolis Effect, which is probably due to a vast increase in heat emission, in the past three years. This is very serious; and may be very legitimate threat to our existence...

What I don't get is, if Jupiters moon explodes, the chances of it hitting earth are tiny! think how big jupiter is, it orbits jupiter so the chances of it exploding at the point of orbitation where its inline with the earth is tiny!!!

Just a scare story people.

Jupiter isnt going to explode. Is this guy even a real scientist?

lets all move out into space and wait for the apocalypse to end. then we can go back down and be happy. :)

Ok. The day that Jupiter blows up is the day that I go up the the "end is near" guy and shake his hand. I am pretty sure that WE will destroy ourselves / this planet before that happens, though.

Someone should call Ben Affleck and see if he is free next week....

Jupiter may explode and kill us all? Ay yi yi. I mean, I'm freaked about it, but I'm actually more obsessed with questions like "where did I put my keys?" and "will anyone notice this chorizo-stain?" I think this Jupiter thing is a definitive case of a problem too big to worry about.

Jupi-Terror! Time for an inter-galactic Gitmo?

What they don't tell you is that Jupiter is upset because it's friends with Pluto, who is orbiting all alone out there no longer even recognized as a planet...

Jupiter is just sticking up for it's little friend.

go Jupiter...but please don't kill us.

This is a matter of national security, Jupiter is a threat to our sovereign nation. we have to go to war with Jupiter arm the damn nukes and raise the terror level. our war on terror is going terrestrial. lets take the fight to Jupiter before it strikes us at home. bomb bomb bomb Jupiter.

I bet he doesn't get invited to dinner parties more than once. He could shake the fun out of a children's party.

Game over man......game OVER.

Maybe we can strike first.

I would prefer if Jupiter didn't do that.

Another worry to add to our list, but hey we all have to die one day, even the sun!

God using Jupiter to purge his mistakes...?

On this scale, what will be will be. The consequences for all life in this solar system would be dire.

I bet we can destroy it all on our own before any other major event can!

And here we are fretting about global warming..pfff

I want my mum.

Every single morning after waking up, I get the joy of news about a new all destroying disease/meteor/planet/science experiment etc.

As if life in itself isn't a blast already. lol

Oh Great...

ain't that a bitch