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Cassini's Best Images

CheshireCatCO writes "The winners of the best images from the Cassini spacecraft (taken since Cassini images of Saturn were first acquired in February 2004) have been announced. The winner of best color image is In Saturn's Shadow, the stunning, high-phase portrait of Saturn from opposite the Sun. Winners of best black-and-white and best movie (both categories resulted in ties) are also available."

28 comments

  1. Frosty piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A nice big flute of frosty piss is yours for new year's!

    1. Re:Frosty piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Here is a 3d version of one of the images.

    2. Re:Frosty piss by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Troll

      that's pretty sweet. I'd love to see it in iMax 3d though.

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    3. Re:Frosty piss by Tablizer · · Score: -1, Troll

      Here is a 3d version of one of the images.

      That's not Saturn, that's Goatse sitting on a big frizbee.

  2. FP for 2008? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope so. Most people are out drinking, but I'm sitting in front of the computer, naked, posting to slashdot.

    1. Re:FP for 2008? by Smordnys+s'regrepsA · · Score: 3, Interesting

      This is /. - everyone else is sitting in front of their computer, naked, reading /. WHILE drinking.

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    2. Re:FP for 2008? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I was thinking of staying up to do the first post of 2008, but then I remembered the different time zones made it impossible :) oh well, happy new year!

    3. Re:FP for 2008? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Slacker. You could have easily made 24 first posts to cover your ass. Actually you would need less than that since Slashdot only posts a couple of stories during nighttime in North America.

    4. Re:FP for 2008? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why does it make it impossible? Pretend you are posting from Tuvalu (UTC +12), or maybe go with UTC. Too late now, though.

  3. first reply to first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I think of dirty old men, I think of Ike Thomas and when I think about Ike I get a hard-on that won't quit.
    Sixty years ago, I worked in what was once my grandfather's greenhouses. Gramps had died a year earlier and Grandma, now in her seventies had been forced to sell to the competition. I got a job with the new owners and mostly worked the range by myself. That summer, they hired a man to help me get the benches ready for the fall planting.

    Ike always looked like he was three days from a shave and his whiskers were dirty white, shaded by the brim of his battered felt fedora.

    He did not chew tobacco but the corners of his mouth turned down in a way that, at any moment, I expected a trickle of thin, brown juice to creep down his chin. His bushy, brown eyebrows shaded pale, gray eyes.

    The old-timer extended his hand, lifted his leg like a dog about to mark a bush and let go the loudest fart I ever heard. The old fellow then winked at me, "Ike Thomas is the name and playing pecker's my game."

    I thought he said, "Checkers." I was nineteen, green as grass. I said, "I was never much good at that game."

    "Now me," said Ike, "I just love jumping men ..."

    "I'll bet you do."

    "... and grabbing on to their peckers," said Ike.

    "I thought we were talking about ..."

    "You like jumping old men's peckers?"

    I shook my head.

    "I reckon we'll have to remedy that." Ike lifted his right leg and let go another tremendous fart. "He said, "We best be getting to work."

    That summer of 1941 was a more innocent time. I learned most of the sex I knew from those little eight pager cartoon booklets of comic-page characters going at it. Young men read them in the privacy of an outside john, played with themselves, by themselves and didn't brag about it. Sometimes, we got off with a trusted friend and helped each other out.

    Under the greenhouse glass, the temperature some times climbed over the hundred degree mark. I had worked stripped to the waist since April and was as brown as a berry. On only his second day on the job and in the middle of August, Ike wore old fashioned overalls. Those and socks in his high-top work shoes was every stitch he wore. When he bent forward, the bib front billowed out and I could see the white curly hairs on his chest and belly.

    "Me? I just love to eat pussy!" Ike licked his lips from corner to corner then sticking his tongue out far enough that the tip could touch the end of his nose. He said, A man's not a man till he knows first hand, the flavor of a lady's pussy."

    "People do that?"

    He winked. "Of course the taste of a hard cock ain't to be sneezed at neither. Now you answer me, yes or no. Does a man's cock taste salty or not?"

    "I never ..."

    "Well, old Ike's willing to let you find out."

    "No way."

    "Just teasing," said Ike. "But don't give me no sass or I'll show you my ass." He winked. "Might show it to you anyway, if you was to ask."

    "Why would I do that?"

    "Curiosity, maybe. I'm guessing you never had a good piece of man ass."

    "I'm no queer."

    "Now don't be getting judgmental. Enjoying what's at hand ain't being queer. It's taking pleasure where you find it with anybody willing." Ike slipped a hand into the side slit of his overalls and I could tell he was fondling and straightening out his cock. "Now I admit I got me a hole that satisfied a few guys."

    I swallowed, hard.

    Ike winked. "Care to be asshole buddies?"

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    We worked steadily until noon. Ike drew a worn pocket watch from the bib pocket of his loose overalls and croaked, "Bean time. But first its time to reel out our limber hoses and make with the golden arches before lunch."

    I followed Ike to the end of the greenhouse where he stopped at the outside wall of the potting shed. He opened his fly, fished inside, and finger-hooked a soft white penis with a pouting foreskin puckered half an inch past the hidd

    1. Re:first reply to first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      that made me hard. I gotta go jack off now

  4. Hey! by Smordnys+s'regrepsA · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can see my house from here.

    All kidding aside, the little dot in Saturn's rings is us!

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    1. Re:Hey! by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 0

      Really? It looks like an airbrushed drawing to me.

    2. Re:Hey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was glad "In Saturn's Shadow" pulled in the most votes. Not only is it a simply stunning picture of a beautiful planet, but it's interesting in more ways than just aesthetics. First of all, is the fact that our home is in the picture, too: purpose and origin. It's scientifically useful, as sunlight passing through the rings and atmosphere reveals details about both. It also is an will be rare for the foreseeable future. It took a $2 billion space probe to take that picture.

      It also makes a perfect background for widescreen monitors.

  5. Feliz Ano by l1nuXB0X · · Score: 1

    There we are, a mote of dust suspended in a sun beam, a pale blue dot.

  6. Tiny Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can see how small and insignificant the earth is from this enhanced image

  7. Looks fake and it is by dgarbett · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Totally unimpressive

  8. Sponge Moon Square Pants by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of my very favorite Cassini images is an enhanced view of the odd sponge-looking moon Hyperion:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hyperion_false_color.jpg

    1. Re:Sponge Moon Square Pants by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 1

      With caption at http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1507.

      Oddly, that image didn't make it into the options for the voting. (Candidates were largely nominated by visitors to the site, incidentally.) The black and white version of that image *was* in the voting, but only got 6% of the BW vote. Pity, because I agree that it's a really amazing view.

    2. Re:Sponge Moon Square Pants by macshit · · Score: 2, Funny

      One of my very favorite Cassini images is an enhanced view of the odd sponge-looking moon Hyperion
      My pores feel cleaner just looking at it!
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    3. Re:Sponge Moon Square Pants by mangu · · Score: 1

      Hyperion is also interesting because its rotation is chaotic. There's a project for simulating this rotation in this book (chapter 12, item 12.26)

  9. Are these images from an explorer spacecraft? by listen_to_blogs · · Score: 0

    The images look more like drawings/computer generated images. The elliptical paths are perfect!! (as if generated using the equation of perfect ellipse!!!) I hope this is not a joke!! listen_to_slashdot

    1. Re:Are these images from an explorer spacecraft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As N -> bignum, even rings composed of a discrete number of particles will look continuous. Additionally the eccentricity of Saturn's rings is minute. They look like perfect ellipses because at the resolution these photographs were assembled you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

    2. Re:Are these images from an explorer spacecraft? by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 4, Informative

      The images are real (and as unaltered as humanly possible). Then again, the accuracy of the figures should be an indication that this is so: the best ellipse you can draw (even with a computer) is no match for the shape of the Sun or any of the gas-giant planets, for example. (Also, most of the rings are really darned circular, especially at this level.)

  10. Damn flash movies by argent · · Score: 1

    Anyone know how to download those movies and convert them to an open format so my Mac mini can actually play them? The flash format must be horribly inefficient, why do people use it?

    1. Re:Damn flash movies by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 2, Informative

      Click the title of the movie (not the movie itself). This will open the page with the caption and (typically) three formats of the movie, including QuickTime -- which your Mac should surely play.

      They upload three formats because there really isn't just one that works for everyone.

  11. Saturn's Moon Dione. By far the best. by JosefWells · · Score: 1

    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/?IDNumber=PIA07745

    Big, Detailed, Beautiful.

    Perfect for dual-monitor setups.

  12. Not if you made a "Quantum Post" by StressGuy · · Score: 1

    I knew I'd be able to work in a Quantum Physics joke at some point, This year, I resolve to come up with one that's actually funny or, at least, amusing in some way.

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