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The Return of Saturn's Spokes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wheel-in-the-sky dept.

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!