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Phoebe Pictures Released

Posted by Hemos on from the name-one-zanzibar-buck-buck-fate-one-of-them-snimm dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes "NASA has begun to release some pictures from Cassini's Phoebe flyby last Friday. If you look at the thumbnail of this image or if you look at the right of these images, you can see a group of craters that look like a skull just south of the equator and something that looks like George Washington (wearing his wig) near the north pole. Come up with some good names for features, and you can submit your ideas to the IAU. There's a process for naming a newly discovered crater, fossa, or sulcus. By the way, the naming convention for Phoebe is people associated with Phoebe or the Greek islands."

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  1. Oh no, not more features that look like faces! by sdo1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Queue the wackos....

    -S

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  2. Fakes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/media/ir/2004/197_2 07_1.jpg that photo, I think I see a wire. I declare these are fakes! Tin foil hats set to maximum strength! Full conspiracy ahead!

  3. Real Conversation with my wife by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Me: Hm - looks like they're about to take pictures of Phoebe. Should be pretty cool.

    My Lovely Wife: Well, out of all the cast of "Friends" I thought she had the best career options.

    Me: ...

    (Really, she's only like this on astronomy.)

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  4. Screw this. by torpor · · Score: 5, Funny


    I'm sick of looking at black and white pictures of far-off places where the use of nuclear fusion not only makes sense but is also the only way to bring life to desolate locales.

    I wanna go there. Where is my Eagle lander damnit?!! Where is my General Enterprises Hull? Where is my Millenium Falcon? Where is my Beaver-1?

    Screw all this mechano-assembly 'space sciences', screw all this "lets invade Iraq so we can feed our fat society even more plastic landfill", screw all this "nuclear fusion will kill the Earth", I want my space-hardened nuke-powerplant packin' HumVee, and I want it NOW!!

    Seriously. I'd move to Phoebe TODAY. But the closest I can get is a shitty winnebago on some beach in the Netherlands, or some crap like that. What's the frickin' holdup people?

    Sheesh. New World Order my ass. Those guys have no clue what they're doing ... Vote Me For King, and I'll make it -compulsary- for all schoolkids to learn fusion plant physics on Phoebe ...

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  5. That's no moon by DCowern · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got a bad feeling about this.

  6. Gotta name something the island of Lesbos by colinmc151 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the Greek islands is the island of Lesbos (where the poet Sappho first wrote about love between women, and yes this is where the term lesbian comes from). This would be seriously cool on several counts:

    • Phobe being a female figure in Greek mythology this fits better than a lot of male oriented names.
    • It would annoy the U.S. right wing seriously, which at this point is a very good thing.
    • Because of the previous point, this may make it easier to get cash for space exploration, as in:
      • To the left talk about how more money would allow more heroes of the left be honored.
      • For the right talk about such features have to obliterated

    In other words everyone who loves space exploration wins :-) .