On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:09:40PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:13 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Great spots! > > http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc/20080717/jup-browse.jpg > > I wonder: If you were standing on the surface of that planet, would it > sound like a terrestrial storm? All howling wind and whatnot?
Which "surface"? By the time you reach anything approaching a solid on Jupiter, you're at millions of bars of pressue. I doubt sound would carry too far in such an environment, even if any living being could survive for longer than a microsecond to hear it :-) -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
