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The Return of Saturn's Spokes

CheshireCatCO writes "After more than a year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has finally spotted 'spokes' in the rings. Spokes, large radial structures in the rings, where seen by the Voyager spacecraft and have remained difficult to fully explain. The reappearce of the spokes comes about two years earlier than many models predicted."

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  1. What about Scientists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but what do models know? A lot of them don't even have degrees.

    1. Re:What about Scientists? by airherbe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some of them have heavenly bodies.

  2. Upon closer examination by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Astronomers have noticed a giant baseball card embedded in the spokes to make saturn feel like its a real motorcycle.

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  3. Spokes? by __aaydvd4604 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly the Saturnians are using space elevators to reach the rings... duh!

  4. Saturn's Spokes Explained by Blue-Footed+Boobie · · Score: 4, Funny
    You see, there is a photo dimetric charge built up with the gaseous core surrounding the ferrite sphere that is Saturn's core. Of course, as wel all know, this induces a strong para-helic cohesive bond between the ferro-flux dense matter which is on a cyclic Herbrunger-Feltz Path throughout the rings.

    It is really quite simple.

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    1. Re:Saturn's Spokes Explained by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You say that like we're all a bunch of idiots.

      -Anonymous Coward

  5. Duh! by jav1231 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows that the spokes keep the rings equidistant from the planet while providing lateral stability! Hello!

  6. Saturn: Rollin' on dubz by Mancat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Saturn be representin' the second largest plizzy in the sizzolar system, yo.

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  7. Re:The Electric Universe theories predicted this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is another theory that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created Saturn's ring spokes.

  8. Ye of little faith. Pastafarians have the answer. by ScentCone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly the Flying Spaghetti Monster has put planet-sized representations of His Noodly Appendages into orbit around Saturn to show us his majestic power.

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  9. Re:The Electric Universe theories predicted this by ScentCone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it never occur to people that what they read on the internet isn't always true?

    No, that is true that they never... don't not... dis-consider.... never mind. People are twits.

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  10. My take on the rings... by kesuki · · Score: 1, Funny

    large radial structures in the rings, where seen by the Voyager spacecraft and have remained difficult to fully explain.

    Difficult to explain? clearly the RIAA heard that if you played the rings of saturn backwards on a record player you would hear some copyrighted music, so the dissapearing sections of the ring were clearly removed by cease and desit orders sent by RIAA lawyers to saturn.

  11. Re:The Electric Universe theories predicted this by David+Gould · · Score: 2, Funny
    Does it never occur to people that what they read on the internet isn't always true?
    No, that is true that they never... don't not... dis-consider.... never mind. People are twits.

    I don't think you failed not to avoid being unclear.
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  12. Re:Ye of little faith. Pastafarians have the answe by PakProtector · · Score: 3, Funny
    Clearly the Flying Spaghetti Monster has put planet-sized representations of His Noodly Appendages into orbit around Saturn to show us his majestic power.

    Heathen. Clearly the Spokes will occur in, relate to, or somehow be connected to, the number five.

    Saturn was the Father of the Gods, but Eris is clearly showing us she can make him wear the galactic tu-tu.

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  13. Re:Ye of little faith. Pastafarians have the answe by ScentCone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly the Spokes will occur in, relate to, or somehow be connected to, the number five.

    You should repent now, for His Noodly Will is nigh.

    In the meantime, I think we can clearly see that, like global temperatures, the number of Saturnian Spokes is inversely related to the number of pirates. The decline in pirates has obviously caused an increase in the number Noodly Saturnian Spokes.

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  14. Re:Ye of little faith. Pastafarians have the answe by PakProtector · · Score: 2, Funny
    In the meantime, I think we can clearly see that, like global temperatures, the number of Saturnian Spokes is inversely related to the number of pirates. The decline in pirates has obviously caused an increase in the number Noodly Saturnian Spokes.

    This is true. And the decline in Pirates is clearly due to the ancient, noble fued between the Pirates and the Ninja. Clearly this senseless violence must stop, lest the world come that much closer to the Great Heat Death, from which only the Lord Kelvin, who Loves US, and wants to CONSERVE OUR SOULS FROM ENTROPY, can protect us from.

    Fnord.

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