Heavy Weather Exometeorology Style

Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC has posted a gallery of images showing storms on some of our solar system's other planets. The pictures are both intriguing and stunning."

They missed Venus

[phantomfive]

Venus has a giant vortex constantly at its pole [globalpost.com].

Murica. F*** yeah.

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Did you notice that all of the BBC's photos had "Copyright NASA" on them?

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[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> Does the BBC have a satellite?

Sort of: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogaboutthebbc/posts/Changes-to-BBC-Satellite-transponders-in-2013 [bbc.co.uk]

Saturn's polar storms in motion

[Geoffrey.landis]

You should also check out some of the images on the Cassini mission webpage:
http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/191/The_Red_Rose_Of_Saturn [ciclops.org]
and some of the animations, like the ones on this page: http://www.ciclops.org/view/7620/North_Polar_Movie [ciclops.org]

Re:Murica. F*** yeah.

[idontgno]

I think that's just BBC mis-interpreting "Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI" as a copyright claim, in clear ignorance of 17 U.S.C. Section 105 (Copyright Act) [nasa.gov]:

Generally, United States government works (works prepared by officers and employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties) are not protected by copyright in the U.S. (17 U.S.C. [Section] 105) and may be used without obtaining permission from NASA.

(*Yeah, Slashdot doesn't accept the ampersand entity code or the unicode character for the "section" mark. The 20th Century called. They wish to thank Slashdot for their continued support of last millennium's encoding standards.)

Anyway, I have this funny feeling BBC assumes copyright everywhere. (Suddenly, copyrights! Thousands of them!) I suspect they'd give themselves a hyperventilating panic attack if someone submitted some Public Domain material for them to display... "OMG, whose copyright is this!??!"

Texas is quite large

[Anonymous Coward]

It's true that Texas is fairly large - it's practically the same size as Alberta, Canada's [ahem] sixth largest province.

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[Hognoxious]

# I took time out to write to my old friend.
  Walked across that burning bridge.
  Mailed my letter off to Dallas,
  But the reply came from Anchorage ...

Page not accessible from the UK?!

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell? Great job submitter.

I bet they know what the problem is

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

I didn't RTFA because its from the BBC but I am pretty sure they are blaming extreme weather on other planets in the solar system on our excessive high levels of carbon dioxides. The article was only written to make us feel guilty and inhumane for turning on a light to read by at night for all the hell it generates across our solar system.

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[AaronLS]

I thought it was great collection of pictures and anecdotes, and has nothing to do with any of your nonsensical ramblings. It was not political at all, yet I knew as soon as I came to the comments, there'd be some asshat trying to twist it into some cynical bullshit. Get a life.

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[saveferrousoxide]

Dude...y'all seriously need to lighten up. It was a "joke." Perhaps you've heard of them. Or perhaps you hear nothing over the constant WHOOOSHing over your heads.

Global warming.

[m1ndcrash]

Global warming is everywhere.

This is great

[bugs2squash]

All the BBC did was re-post some NASA images that won't be news to many here, but even this simple act was enough to make me think about aurora on other planets, what the difference between a star and a planet really is and gives me some idea of the scale of the features by comparing them to the size of the earth. That's pretty good for such a simple sequence of photos. Giving me reason to think about things outside the day-to-day routine like this is just what I want out of slashdot. Thanks.

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[war4peace]

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."
That's fine, I have US proxies too.

I don't understand why are they still relying on IP addresses to block content. So easy to circumvent.

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[Anonymous Coward]

So it's not funded by the license fee. That's nice

WTF is it funded by then? Advertising? Then where is my website?

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[AaronLS]

I thought it was an interesting despite it being mostly anecdotes. Maybe not news by any pedantic standard, but far better than most 90% of what most people consider news. I think the fact that there's a hurricane that's been around for 300 years is alot more fascinating than who some random person I have never met has been having an affair with.

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[AaronLS]

Because of negative people like you, we can't have nice things. "Hey guys, they don't like the NASA articles, so next week just do some more articles on Ashton Kutcher and forget that science bullshit."