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New images of Jupiter

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483 points 0xFACEFEED | 4 comments | 06 Nov 24 07:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source
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JoeAltmaier ◴[06 Nov 24 12:28 UTC] No.42061164[source]▶
Juno was something about radar - penetrating the cloud layers to see what was below.

In college my son worked on the FFT engine that processed the radar data. He has code circling Jupiter!

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1. latexr ◴[06 Nov 24 16:45 UTC] No.42065022[source]▶
That would be a hilarious (and confusing) bumper sticker. When other parents say “my son is an honour student” you can smugly reply “yeah, but does he have code circling Jupiter?”

Congratulations, by the way. I’m being (trying to be) funny but I genuinely think that is cool and a reason to be proud.

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2. generic92034 ◴[06 Nov 24 22:47 UTC] No.42070760[source]▶
On the other hand, depending on their development, the Jovians might think that everything at all is circling Jupiter. :D
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3. ridgeguy ◴[06 Nov 24 23:56 UTC] No.42071497[source]▶
I don't have code running on them, but I do have hardware designs aboard Pioneer 10 & 11. These were the first rocks we humans tossed high & fast enough from the Sun that they're never coming back. I'm a little proud of that.

Anybody with code circling Jupiter definitely has bragging rights and should be proud. If it were a just world, he/she wouldn't have to pay for a drink in a bar, ever.

4. perihelions ◴[07 Nov 24 04:48 UTC] No.42073508[source]▶
That's only obvious if you're looking at Jupiter from the outside!

You could imagine primitive aliens on the various moons each believing their own is the center of the Jupiter system, which is an elaborate world of epicycles. And when they communicate with the aliens of the other worlds (over shortwave radios each time the moons fly past each other), they debate Europacentrism and Ganymedocentrism and get into very heated arguments.