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Saturn Has a Warm Pole

Posted by Hemos on from the like-forgotten-earth dept.

Artifex writes "Astronomers using infrared imaging capabilities at Keck Observatory in Hawaii have discovered that Saturn's "south" pole is warm - the first warm pole detected in the solar system. "

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  1. Clothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Saturn Has a Warm Pole

    What's he wearing? Thermal underwear?

  2. Warm pole? by base3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I swear, sometimes the jokes just write themselves!

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  3. I know where this came from by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't this come from the book of "Roman God Pickup Lines" ?

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  4. He'd better be - and several layers of it by leonbrooks · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Warm" is defined here relative to roughly -100 to -200degC ambient. "Warm" might freeze you to death in ten minutes instead of eight. "Cold" might freeze you to death in seconds.

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  5. $PLANET has a warm pole... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it'd been Uranus, I think I woulda called in sick today.

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