2,000km-wide Eye-of-Sauron MONSTER hurricane spotted on Saturn

Stargazing NASA scientists have snapped an image of a massive hurricane on Saturn whose vortex is 20 times larger than the average size of the eye of its earthly cousins.* The blowy behemoth boasts an eye estimated to be over 2,000km (1,250 miles) wide, which is more than large enough to spot any troublesome hobbits heading …

[I think so I am?]

If Carling made scouser astrophysicists

Why aye man!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: If Carling made scouser astrophysicists

Perhaps its just cos I'm a soft southerner, but I've always associated that turn of phrase with Geordies, not Scousers.

[IronSteve]

Re: If Carling made scouser astrophysicists

It's Carlsberg not Carling...and Geordies say 'Why aye man'

[Isendel Steel]

Re: If Carling made scouser astrophysicists

Calm down ! Calm down !

[TheRealRoland]

Re: If Carling made scouser astrophysicists

Are ye pickin' a fight?! Are ye pickin' a fight?!

[tempemeaty]

Geometric....

Amazingly hexagonal shaped storm.

[Crisp]

Holiday on Saturn?

No thanks. Not with 300mph winds and storms that last decades.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Holiday on Saturn?

Imagine coming out of a cave after a decade of winter then getting your FACE RIPPED OFF by methane ice particles driving by FOREVER HURRICANE.

Saturno-bears have it hard. Seriously makes one want to stay in bed.

[NukEvil]

Re: Holiday on Saturn?

Nah, if you were a Saturnian, you would consider that hurricane as 'a light shower, with a particular taste of farts'.

Explosion, because that's what farts should do when you light 'em.

[reno79]

Re: Holiday on Saturn?

Still better than a weeked in Grimsby

[Anonymous Coward]

I blame CO2 emissions.

These kind of mega-storms never occurred before the industrial revolution, according to the records.

[lglethal]

Re: I blame CO2 emissions.

"Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away."

-- Lisa Simpson

(Ah what would we do without the simpsons? There"s a quote for every situation...

[oldcoder]

Looks more like a drain...

When water is running out the drain.

That would also explain why the clouds in the center are lower than those around it (less dense).

[Anonymous Coward]

All seeing eyes

"...creepy all-seeing-eye familiar from American dollar bills..." Dollars creepy for a number of reasons.

[Gazman]

Strange dimensions

Having once got flamed to cinders as a youth for referring to an embossed surface as 2.5D, I think it is only fair that Eadon writes out the following 1,000 times:

"If it has height and width, it's 2D: if it has height, width and depth, it's 3D"

Either that, or we lock him in a room with nothing but a Win RT tablet for company over the weekend...

[Michael Dunn]

Re: Strange dimensions

"Either that, or we lock him in a room with nothing but a Win RT tablet for company over the weekend..." You'd get done under the HR acts for cruel and unusual punishment!