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Titan's Surface Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

MattKeeler writes "NASA's running a story on the recent findings of Cassini, the satellite orbiting Titan, one of Saturn's giant moons. New images reveal details of the moon's surface and a variety of materials that cover it."

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  1. Sirens! by spellraiser · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to see pictures of the Sirens! Where are they??

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  2. Best...comment...EVER! by Big+Nothing · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We're seeing a totally alien surface"

    No shit, Sherlock?

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    1. Re:Best...comment...EVER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      "There are linear features, circular features, curvilinear features."

      Oh no! Not more faces!

    2. Re:Best...comment...EVER! by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 4, Funny

      Here's an ASCII picture of those linear and circular features:

      O | O | X
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      O | X | 0
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      X | 0 | X

    3. Re:Best...comment...EVER! by sbaker · · Score: 3, Funny

      So on Titan they play tic-tac-toe with Oh's, X's *and* Zeroes! Boy those guys are just *so* alien - we may never learn to communicate with them.

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  3. Re:Uh, I'm not a regular of this place by tigress · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, don't worry. It happens all the time. We consider it a feature. :)

  4. Jack Handy by deutschemonte · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if there was life on Titan and they shot down our probe because they thought it was attacking them with it's scanning technology.

    Then they would send a probe to our moon and scan it with their weapons technology.

    That would suck.

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    1. Re:Jack Handy by l810c · · Score: 4, Funny

      I bet the tin foil hat sales on Titan are through the roof right now.

    2. Re:Jack Handy by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

      In other news the Pentagon confirmed that German intelligence had uncovered evidence of WMD on Titan. The weapons are believed to have been developed by the Titians, a cult cloaked in mystery and understood to have clashed previously with ancient Greek culture. A spokesman said this probably explained the disapperance of Atlantis and that Titan had been moved from position 825 to position 7 on the Places To Be Invaded list. When questioned President Bush had only two words on the matter, "Jelly Babies".

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    3. Re:Jack Handy by peaworth · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course there are WMD there. They found evidence of hydrocarbons there. Better mount an invasion to secure the oil... err- liberate the Titans.

    4. Re:Jack Handy by nyekulturniy · · Score: 2, Funny

      In other news, Lockheed Martin decided to merge with the moon Titan, instead of Titan Corporation of San Diego. "Titan the moon has been around since the formation of the planets, 10 billion years ago," Lockheed said in a press release. "Titan Corporation has cash-flow problems, and is implicated in the Iraqi prison scandal. Not to mention all that hydrocarbons out there make it possible for us to form a partnership with ExxonMobil in exploiting Titanian oil."

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  5. Just think.. by MikeDX · · Score: 1, Funny

    If we find out that Titan has a twin, and they collide.. we could indeed have a real-life "Clash of the Titans!"

    1. Re:Just think.. by Lispy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, or we could call it a dupe. Just like this story. ;-)

  6. Re:Uh, I'm not a regular of this place by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's because we all have short attention spans around here. If something is important enough, it gets brought up again and again.

    By the way, did you hear about those pictures from Titan? I can't wait to see them.

  7. Re:Dupe?! by Latent+Heat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Last time this story got posted, the thread got clogged with whining about NASA funding, worrying about contaminating Titan, lame Borg jokes, and the general Slashdot name calling.

    This time we will get it right and only post informative and insightful comments regarding what the pictures show and the possibility for life elsewhere than Earth . . . oops, too late.

  8. True-color image by Latent+Heat · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the city. Los Angeles, California. My name's Friday and I work here . . . (cough, cough cough!).

  9. And I thought they were orbiting Saturn by whimdot · · Score: 2, Funny

    At least it looks like Marvin would like Titan more than expected.

  10. Impact crater? by bjparker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Note the circular feature, a possible impact crater, in the northern hemisphere.

    That's no impact crater, they've found a Death Star!

  11. Oh shit... by Epistax · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they don't see my weed garden.

  12. Legos? by 955301 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... a variety of materials that cover it.

    So, are there any Legos? Cause, I mean, you can build freakin' anything out of Legos. Life can't be too far behind.

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  13. I dubya knight of the square peg in the round hole by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're just claiming WMD to invade and harvest all those "hydrocarbons", on Earth represented mostly as "natural gas", oil and coal. Crusader!

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  14. Re:Cassini is Orbiting SATURN by wombatius · · Score: 2, Funny

    Closer to accurate than the Los Angeles Times front page blurb on the Cassini orbit insertion, which heralded its entrance into the orbit of Jupiter.

    They had a one-in-nine chance of getting the planet right, I guess.

  15. Impact Crater? by John+Marter · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's no impact crater. It's the primary weapon.