Originally Posted by Warren Platts

Now that I look back, I can see where you were coming from. I should have seen that.


That may be a most mainstream way to do things (although the way I achieved that conclusion is decidedly not a mainstream way to do things, unless you're a biologist). However, the mainstream conclusion is that the GRB is quite extraordinary; therefore, the ATM view is by default that the GRB is in fact rather ordinary, just a lot bigger.

Thank you. I was beginning to get paranoid.

But Jupiter is a pretty big planet.

The Wikipedia article on the GRB says the cloudtops of the GRB extend 8 km above the surrounding cloudtops.