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So we have another Vault episode for you.

This is going to be the Great Eye of Jupiter, Part 2 of 2.

It originally published 513, 2025. Let's jump in.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

We are back with our second episode on the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

And in the last episode, we'll get sort of a rundown of what we talked about last time. But one of the things we did mention a few different times is how Jupiter does show up in science fiction, oftentimes just as a backdrop, sometimes in a more plot-oriented fashion.

But I was looking around because I'm like, okay, if I dive deeper into written fiction, I'm sure there's some

some great hardcore Jupiter sci-fi that references the spot. And sure enough, there's a

novella from, let's see, 1971. I believe the original version of it was published in Playboy

magazine. And it's set in the year

2050. It is titled A Meeting with Medusa by the legendary Arthur C. Clark. Oh yeah, huge jellyfish

in the atmosphere of Jupiter. This is sort of, this is an airship story, isn't it? It is. Yeah,

this is a, this is a pretty famous one. I've never read it, which is why it didn't,

you know, come to my mind immediately. And we may have referenced it on the show in the past, but it was a, it was a big one. It was a Nebula Award winner, highly influential tale. Um, I, I wish I'd had the, had a chance to read it in full ahead of our recording. But I did, uh, go through it and look for references to the great red spot and there are actually a couple of

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