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When other planets do storms, they do 'em right. The Cassini spacecraft snapped photos of this monster thunderstorm on Saturn that's been raging for five months now, each lightning bolt packing 10,000 times more juice than it's Earthly counterparts. Jupiter's still got the illest storm in the solar system with it's almost four-century old Great Red Spot, but Saturn's storm's not too shabby — it's that blotch down in the lower right-hand part of the planet. That bright spot just below the rings? That's Saturn's moon Tethys looking way bigger than it should because it's in the foreground, just to give you a rough sense of scale. (from NASA)
Saturn Thunderstorm Would Fry Earth in a Hurry
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9:31 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Michael Reilly
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Points to Michael Reilly for using the word "illest" in an article about planetary storms.
I wonder if there are any Saturnites (Saturnians?) chasing it around in a flying pickup truck trying to get a closer look.
Well, the storm's much bigger than Earth, right?
Hardly fair comparing our storms...
@Tiwa Face Kontrol: All of which should be deducted for messing up "its" not once, but twice in a single paragraph! (sigh)
BELINDA
Hang on, honey.
(Puts down phone, walks to window.
Opens blinds.)
BELINDA
Nope, still raining. (Pause.)
Yes, apparently I picked the ONE
FUCKING SPOT on the planet.
Hasn't it been determined that the "red spot" on Jupiter is really the calm eye of a planet-covering mega storm? Like the eye of a hurricane here on earth?
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