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Saturn Hailstorm

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wear-your-hard-hat dept.

crmartin writes "NASA has released a web story about the sounds recorded aboard the Cassini spacecraft as it pased through the Rings. The story includes a Quicktime file of the hailstorm-like sounds of Ring particles impacting."

7 of 133 comments (clear)

  1. Cassini by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sorry, "Cassini" is already taken - it is the name of a free open-source web server written in .NET and is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 .NET.

    Why do people always copy Microsoft?

  2. I've got sounds from myanus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aaah shit, i fucked that up /*fart*/

  3. fake! by obli · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can see the threads! Damn cheap special effects...

  4. Re:Powerful Hull? by Neophytus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was going to post some sarcastic comeback until I looked at your user ID and realised you were probably being serious.

  5. Re:Why would anyone want to listen to this anyway? by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Awwright! Another ABBA fan!

    Let's together you and me jam!

    Money, money, money,
    Seems so funny,
    It's a rich mans world!

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  6. Re:Powerful 56 by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, Mr 56 is Taco. Look at his article submission stats. EVERY FUCKING ONE.

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  7. what do you hear? by tabby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nothing but the rain ;-)

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