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Cassini Shatters Titan Theories
Dozix007 writes "The Herald reports: Cassini pierced
the haze around Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, revealing details
that have shattered theories about its composition. It has
atmosphere and soil similar to primordial Earth and may contain the
building blocks of life. Scientists believed bright patches
on its surface seen earlier were pure water ice. But the first infrared
images
taken by Cassini revealed water ice as dark patches because it is mixed
with material that may be organic, raining on to the surface."
because the majority of the money we give NASA doesn't go to projects like this... they go to the ones that fail.
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I suggest we send our own organic matter down there and see what becomes of it. Ok everyone who is the head of a political office raise their hand! Now everyone working for these people raise your hand. Every who has your hand raised get on a rocket cause we're shipping you out! I know we are starting low but consider it even we grew from one celled organisms so what we can send isn't much lower is it? Well at least we'd get rid of a few problem individuals.
oh dear god! It's raining farts!
What type of organisms can sustain life under such low tempartures?
Sapmelas.
KFG
Damn, I hope NASA remembered to keep up with its insurance premiums.
KFG
Why are we not giving them more funding?
Easy, I'm Canadian
I wouldn't want anything artificial in my water.
Maybe the people at Nasa are lonely. Aww thats so sad I think everyone at slash dot should chip in and send them a puppy! We can continue to let SETI search for life but they can only search for life that can send out signals of some sort.
There won't be a single bit from a Microsoft product on the whole damn planet.
:-)
Why are we not giving them more funding?
Haven't you been paying attention? There's a war on!
if organisms truly are found on Saturn, the space race is going to really pick up speed within the next few years.
Three possible beneficiaries of Titanian space race:
1) Big Pharma - Think of the patents, man!
2) Defense Industry - There must be some way to "weaponize" a microbe that survives at -180C.
3) Big Oil -- Excuse me, did you just say hydrocarbons ?
Of course, your tax dollars will bankroll any exploration. Don't expect to see any of the profits, though.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
Awesome! Now we can start making games and movies about evil aliens from Titan!
[o]_O
Java, naturally. Run anywhere, and all that... Of course, if their brains are completely different from the brain of a human, they might use perl...
Hey, only Europa is forbidden. They didn't say *anything* about Titan.
Are these units part of the metric system?
Can somebody please translate into more familiar units such as size of Texas or Volkswagen bugs?
The only difference between Democrats and Republicans regarding budget cuts is tense. Republicans say they will cut the budget, and then they increase it. After the budget has increased, Democrats say that it has been cut.
It's interesting that we keep cutting NASA's budget, saying there's nothing possibly interesting out there...
I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that none of Bush's family work for NASA... Maybe if they were discovering new and interesting ways to blow planets up they might be in with a shot at extra funding...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Cassini-Huygens were to somehow act as a catalyist and cause a chain reaction in Saturn's rings causing them to spontaneously combust and destroy themselves? People all over the world would be calling the U.S. "ring wreckers"!
BTM
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Sincerely,
Jerome
Navigator
Should read: "Cassini Shatters Titan; Theories."
Interesting that we search far away places looking for signs of life, and there may be some in our own back yard.
Where it was tragically eaten by Biff, the dog. Next time better use the radio telescope, little green ones.
Robber: OK MISTER. You have two choices: shot or stabbed. Which is it?
Blue Trane: Well Mister Robber, what you are presenting to me is a logical fallacy known as a "false dichotomo". It is a fallacy, because in this situation there are actually several options besides the two you gave. For example, I could plead for my life, or I could...
Robber: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (and he runs away, leaving you alive)
Hmmmm, I suppose you are right. +1 insightful.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
Now we know that Mars is the location of NASA's top-secrtet film-studio. Every time those middle-managers at NASA want to pocket those government grants for themselves (or occasionally to show that the Americans are better than the Soviets), instead of spendiung billions on sending spacecraft out to deep-spcae, they just spend millions on sending spacecraft to Mars, take some photos, and Photoshop them to look like any other celestial body they chose. In fact, I even suspect that the Apollo Moon landings were filmed on Mars.
Maybe we should stage one then. Fooling the average Joe would be easy, but how do we fool NASA...
Surely with the combined brainpower(tm) of all slashdotters, we should be able to come up with something.
Lets see, by combining all the brainpower of Slashdot, we have a database of hot grits, natalie portman, goatse, monty python, simpson, south park, Soviet Russia, and 3. Profit!! references, plus hundreds of trolls, thousands of single, educated men who actually own (and use) pocket protectors, and a few dozen people who simply go around correcting everyone elses grammar and spelling. Oh, and 500,000 pot smokers.
We might not be up to the task. I'm afraid half would quit, mid-task, and return to their online game and half would go back to building their "girl" robot. And the other 10% are too stoned to do basic math...
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the next generation in asian biological weaponry!!!