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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. Re:The Electric Universe theories predicted this by EvilBastard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hang on...
    The (completely insane and already disproven multiple times) Electric Universe theory has only been talking about these rings since 2004.

    These spokes were first spotted in the '80's.

    Isn't this a bit like "I have a theory, this theory is that Orange Polkadotted Jet Propelled Chickens from the Pleides are currently touring the universe blowing up stars. The last star they visited was SN1987A, and sure enough observations back me up".

    If they predicted it before they hit Saturn, then maybe we'd pay attention. But seeing how they predicted it after it had already been observerd places you fairly in the OPJPC camp.