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2020-03-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Comet FIVE times the size of Jupiter is set to light up the night skies in April - and it could be brighter than Venus

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-31 12:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 It isn't 5 times the size of Jupiter you wastes of oxygen.

It will appear near five times brighter/bigger to the naked eye.

If it was 5x the size of Jupiter, it would pull the inner planets out of their current orbit.

Goddamn ass clowns.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-31 13:47|| 2020-03-31 13:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Just hope it doesn't hit Uranus.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-31 14:26|| 2020-03-31 14:26|| Front Page Top

#3 That's some World Class jernoolism from the Daily Smail.

Still, the appearance of a massive Comet Of Doom helps fill in the missing parts of the "alarming portents and signs in the heavens" of the apocalypse.

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-03-31 17:13|| 2020-03-31 17:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Comet Atlas? Will it shrug?

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-03-31 17:15|| 2020-03-31 17:15|| Front Page Top

#5 It has it's own atmosphere? Heaven's Gate 2.0 - the only thing stopping the rush on jogging suits, Nike shoes is the quarantine. Well played, Mr. Trump

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-31 17:34|| 2020-03-31 17:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, the "writer" didn't manage to work the word exponential in..

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 18:38|| 2020-03-31 18:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Journalists exist because McDonald's doesn't hire everyday.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-03-31 20:29|| 2020-03-31 20:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Journalists exist because even McDonald's has ethical standards.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-03-31 20:50|| 2020-03-31 20:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Well it could appear 5 times the size of Jupiter without being 5 times the mass.

The gas surrounding the comet is very diffuse. Jupiter's atmosphere is for the most part greatly compressed. Very greatly compressed.

Posted by Hellfish 2020-03-31 21:27|| 2020-03-31 21:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Wait until it gets a whiff of Uranus.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-31 23:26|| 2020-03-31 23:26|| Front Page Top

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