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Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away
The Bad Astronomer writes "NASA's Cassini spacecraft took an image of Saturn's giant moon Titan earlier this year that serendipitously provides proof of liquid (probably methane) on its surface. The picture shows a glint of reflected sunlight off of a monster lake called Kraken Mare (larger than the Caspian Sea!). Scientists have been getting better and better evidence of liquid methane on Titan, but this is the first direct proof."
Mod parent +1E0 Informative but Pedantic.
That unit would scare away readers. "Yikes! A terameter-high terrorist!"
Table-ized A.I.
Frozen Nitrous Oxide anyone?
Pssshh. Don't make me laugh.
ALL THESE FARTS ARE YOURS. USE THEM WISELY, AND DON'T LIGHT ANY NAKED FLAMES.
EXCEPT TITAN. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE, BECAUSE IT BLOODY STINKS.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Yes, right, I'm sure Stanley Kubrick told Arthur C. Clarke the same thing when they were finalizing the screenplay. So now I'm reduced to typing a lot of mindless garbage just to get around the lousy Slashdot filter.
Where's the TMI mod when you need it?
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Read the name of the "lake", - Kraken Mare.
It's just a big puddle of sea-monster piss, nothing exciting at all.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Its called a terameter. What is the point of the metric system if you don't use the other scales?
Because then everyone would have to look up teramer and google would crash under the /. rush.
Of course. And so is "1 inch = 25.4 millimeters"
Let's face it, this isn't rocket science, is it?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Way to explain the joke, asshole.