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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RocketMan on April 22, 2009, 01:09:42 AM
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Check out this article in the UK's Daily Mail. NASA's Cassini probe has returned some absolutely stunning images of Saturn, its rings and moons. Very incredible.
I'll shut up now and let you enjoy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1172205/Saturn-close-Sensational-cosmic-images-bring-ringed-planet-life.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1172205/Saturn-close-Sensational-cosmic-images-bring-ringed-planet-life.html)
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Yeah! I've been looking for new desktop images. Thanks. :laugh:
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As amazing as those photos are, they pale in comparison to the fact that there was finally something worth seeing in the UK Daily Mail!!
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Gorgeous, thank you for the link.
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I had seen two of these previously, thanks for the post so I could see the rest.
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It's SHOPPED! =D
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That's no moon... =(
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That's no moon... =(
Yeah, they've been cracking that one about Mimas since the Voyager fly-by's in the 80's. :laugh:
When you look at the size of that impact crater in relation to the rest of Mimas, just a little bigger, and Saturn would have had an even more impressive ring system
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And they say UFOs aren't real? Proof!
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Which is the moon the monolith aliens don't want us near?
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Which is the moon the monolith aliens don't want us near?
In the movie, and the book sequels 2010, 2061, and 3001, it was Europa, around Jupiter. The monolith took a gamble on the walking coral-reef things under the ice on Europa, and turned Jupiter into a sun to give them a chance. And the star-children/space ghosts/whatever of Bowman, HAL, and the Monolith ordered humanity to stay away from Europa.
In the original book version of 2001, the Discovery mission was hastily changed to just fly-by Jupiter, then go to Saturn, which added to the stress and length of the mission and made Bowman and Poole a bit paranoid. This also made HAL's lie (to conceal the monolith found on the moon, and the signal it sent to the "big one" from Bowman and Poole) which drove him insane a bit of a bigger deal. Then the sequel books were just revised to match the movie and everything about Saturn was dropped, since the story otherwise to that point was essentialy the same.
The Saturn moon the big monolith sat on in the book was Iapetus, which was known from Earth teloscopes for some time to be very odd, because we knew for some time that one side is as black as coal, and the other is as white as snow. Clarke decided that having the big monolith that sucked up Bowman and sent him across the galaxy to have caused that coloration by being set down in Iapetus. And the blasted out white part was a big artificial signal to say "Hey! Something's HERE" in case humans got that far without finding TMA1 on the moon first maybe. In the movie and the later books, that monolith just orbited freely around Jupiter, or sat on Europa to protect/guide the life emerging onto the now warm and melted surface from Jupiter being "stellated".
Now with a good look at Iapetus from the Cassini probe, the moon is even weirder than we initialy thought. Aside from being ice white on one side, and coal-black on the other, it's got a near perfect mountain ridge around it's equator making the whole moon look sort of like a walnut, or like the seams on a soccer ball. It has all sorts of other odd features, probably from some kind of internal collapse, or coming back together from being blasted into chunks.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA08376_modest.jpg
So now because of it's oddbal shape, and the ridges, the "face on Mars/big NASA conspiracy tin-foil guys" are now claiming Iapetus is a big ancien Death-Star like space station. ;/
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Just don't be posting any pics of Uranus!
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... answer to question which I really appreciate...
So now, because of it's oddball shape and the ridges, the "face on Mars/big NASA conspiracy tin-foil guys" are now claiming Iapetus is a big ancient Death-Star like space station. ;/
Then we need Cassini to locate the thermal exhaust port posthaste.
:laugh:
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Then we need Cassini to locate the thermal exhaust port posthaste.
:laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KGD9cIy8I
You obviously need to help this guy with his research and getting the TROOOF out there... =D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KGD9cIy8I
You obviously need to help this guy with his research and getting the TROOOF out there... =D
Nope, I'll be too busy practicing bullseye-ing womp rats in my T-16.
Someone has to be ready for when that thing has to be taken down.
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Then we need Cassini to locate the thermal exhaust port posthaste.
:laugh:
It's right below the main port. Duh... =D
Nope, I'll be too busy practicing bullseye-ing womp rats in my T-16.
Someone has to be ready for when that thing has to be taken down.
A little advice for you, then... "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them. You must let go your conscious self, and act-on-INSTINCT."
What caliber for womp rat?
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I'm amazed at how much sunlight makes it out that far for it to be as bright as it is.
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I'm amazed at how much sunlight makes it out that far for it to be as bright as it is.
That's where all the light we should be getting during the winter goes.
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What caliber for womp rat?
I'd guess a heavy .30-06, since they're not much bigger than two meters.
/God, I'm such a nerd... ;/
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I'd guess a heavy .30-06, since they're not much bigger than two meters.
/God, I'm such a nerd... ;/
Not from where I'm sitting.
Then again, I'm one of those people Lucasfilm calls on when they need costumed volunteers for public events, so maybe I'm not the best judge there... :lol:
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NERD ALERT!! :O
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