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New Ring Discovered Around Saturn
HunahpuMonkey writes "BBC News is reporting that 'scientists using the Cassini probe have found a new ring and one, possibly two, new objects orbiting Saturn.' The article also notes that the discoveries are in the planet's contorted F-ring region. The ring of new material seems to be associated with Saturn's moon Atlas."
Frodo and Sam: "Here we go again!"
Stereotypical old fashioned cash register: "Cha-ching!"
The Fithp are coming...
We have the F-ring. Now let's work on the G-spot ;0
Moon n.
Large body made out of cheese which cows like to jump over.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
So many rings, so many weddings, he must be broke!
Oh, no! It's all coming true!
~Philly
They keep finding more bodies in orbit.
That reminds me - I found a new tree in the forest yesterday.
I think I'll name it 'George.'
"That's no moon!"
You're absolutely right! I'm sick of this earthist shit. Such demands are unfair to the other planets. In my classroom, I proudly display a poster of "Earth" where Saturn is in the foreground and earth is depicted as a small insignificant spec in the background--and it's depicted "upside-down" and America is not even visible! Most ignorant "earthlings" gaze wistfully up at their "proper" moon babbling about its "beauty" and never even ponder the dust fragments circling Saturn! Man in the moon, my ass! What about the "womyn on the spec?!"
Tiny bits of flotsam circling Saturn and other (equally beautiful) planets are perfectly good "moons" too, you bastards! I hope that if there are beings on the other planets, they come and blast our smug, bloated moon into millions of wonderfully diverse bits!
Mod parent up +555555555 insightful, please!
How the heck did you look up satellite in the dictionary and still manage to spell it wrong?
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
NASA is really just trying to keep you from paying too much attention to Gensis... don't be fooled! :P
(no, I don't have a tinfoil hat; yes, it's a joke)
Saturn has an F-ring huh? You'd think you'd find an F-ring somewhere closer to Uranus.
well then how come slashdot hasn't changed the icon that goes with the space stories. I won't believe theirs anouther ring until that happens.
It's fairly easy to distinguish moons and debris...
Debris are made of rock
Moons are made of cheese
Fry: "As long as you don't make me smell Uranus." Leela: "Huh? I don't get it?" Dr. Farnsworth: "Fry, they changed the name of the planet in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all." Fry: "What's it called now?" Dr. Farnsworth: "Urectum!:
No no. you're clearly wrong. The Moon is entirely stationary - the rest of the Universe just orbits it in a way that makes it appear to rotate.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Personally I think conspiracy theorists will be far more concerned because this article simply comes 'from the dept'..nothing more....
THE dept!!! Scary....
Who are they!? What is their agenda!?
"What exactly is the definition of a moon?"
When the ring around uranus is visible, that's mooning.
"Derp de derp."
Ahem, SINCE you assed, ahem, aSKED, I guess if Saturns moons are IN Uranus, those could be called "Moonheroids"... THese are NOT the kind of "kling-ons" you want hanging around...
s s. htm
WOuld Klingons on earth be "anti-government polyps"?
I remember back around 1990 seeing a new Saturn with the license plate:
HazRngs
or maybe
HzRings
It was/is cute pun on Saturn Has Rings and the car being a Saturn, heheh.
Now, these:
http://www.thecommentarybox.co.uk/issue45/kicka
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
... its a space station.
kulakovich