Juno Arrives at Jupiter Today

A few years ago doctors started thinking that maybe Gehrig died from repetitive brain injury, not ALS. He was knocked out a lot. But there are no autopsy results to look at so it will always be an open question.

Changed his name or something.

How the hell does a baseball player get knocked out a lot? It's not like badminton or shuffle board!

Beaned in the head. Lots of fights. Ty Cobb decked him once and his head hit the concrete.

Wow! I don't follow baseball, so I assumed it was a gentleman's sport.

Not when Ty Cobb was around

Apparently, a number of other players came down with ALS at the same time as Lou, so there's speculation that it could have been environmental factors which caused the disease.

What is going on in this picture? The alien in background looks like he is taking a shit while being propelled into the air.

And the dude in the foreground looks like he is getting high on something.

They're Venusian "Oucher Pouchers" who spend their lives hopping around on Venus because of how hot the surface is. The one in the front is eating one of the Soviet probes that landed on Venus in the 70s.

You re kidding right?

No I'm not. I've been visiting people (or maybe there's a TV on in a public area & I can't change the channel) and at least from the limited time I watched I didn't see anything violent or crude.

Meet Ty Cobb.

Yes I saw that movie, and am well aware of what a colorful character he was. I'm just saying for the most part you can take your family to a ball game without being a bad parent.

Colorful? Lots of people thought Cobb was a monster

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. Again, I'm out of my element here - the only sport I follow religiously is MMA. But they do put a disclaimer before and during every event telling people that there will be violence and that it might not be suitable for everyone. I fucking totally do not get this - you're a football coach, so school me: it's okay (fuck the Super Bowl is the cultural icon of America!) to watch two 250 pound men collide at full speed and give themselves insane wear & tear on their bodies and brains. But it's not okay to watch two 150 pound men punch, kick and elbow each other or choke each other unconscious because there might be......blood involved! Damn that is some hypocritical shit right there. Two people of the same size fighting is about as natural and pure a sport as could ever exist. Why would anyone not want their kids to see such a sport? Explain this please.

Dock Ellis liked to drop acid before he played.

A no-hitter......so LSD is a PED? I guess it was for him! Fucking amazing. Then again I knew a guy in the Air Force who hunted bears when he was on LSD - with a bow and arrow BTW. Wow

Juno just buzzed Jupiter.

All these Legos are yours, except Duplo. Attempt no connection there. Use them together. Use them in pieces.

To put that into perspective, this is an approximate view of the flyover.

Isn't the Great Red Spot steadily fading?

Yeah, tho what exactly that means isn't clear.

It fluctuates. There's been times in the past when it looked like it was going to disappear, but then its brightness returned.

It means it's being absorbed by a bunch of black monoliths.

My wife has been washing her panties with a new detergent, so between that and menopause the red spots should be almost gone soon. Sorry, it had to be said.

And there's a problem with June's engines. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/10/nasas-juno-spacecraft-has-a-problem-with-its-engine/

They should have opted for the towing insurance rider.

Is there a massive black monolith nearby?