Thread: you see Red?

Originally Posted by izlat

Does this hold true for newbies only or even for advanced Feather users?

You'd have to ask JoshEarl - I never got out of Feather grade school.

Originally Posted by Jonedangerousli

Perhaps you should change your handle to "Jupiter"...

*rimshot*

I'll be here all week.

Nothing substantiative to add to the discussion, just in a smart@ss mood.


J.

Being a foreign transplant I do not get it
Ivo

I think he meant "Mars". Mars was the Roman god with the red face. If you saw the HBO series "Rome", in the episode where G. Julius had his triumph, the reason he had a red-painted face is because he was dressed as Mars.

Nope.
Jupiter is famous for its red spot.
It is an immense hurricane, with wind speeds of hunderds of kilometers per hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoluti...Great_Red_Spot

its diameter is almost twice the size of earth. it has existed for a long time, and thermodynamic models have predicted that it will exist for a long time to come.

EDIT: the models are actually a combination of fluidodynamics and thermodynamics, and if I remember correctly, it involves a 4th order partial differential equation with several variables.
For those who don't know what the last sentence meant: most earthly problems can be expressed as only second order equations. And even those are notoriously difficult to solve unless they can be simplified to a couple of standard models for which analytical solutions exist.

A reallife 4th order partial differential equation with multiple variables cannot be solved, except numerically with $$$ number crunchers. And as if that is not enough, the equations usually have emergent chaotic behavior, meaning that very tiny changes can have very serious consequences.
This is why fluidodynamics is about the hardest engineering discipline there is.
Incidentally, this is also why the weather forecast is an unreliable science at best.

Probably some kids with laser pointers. Make sure the bathroom window shade is closed.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Incidentally, this is also why the weather forecast is an unreliable science at best.

That, and those $@^% butterflies won't sit still.