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First Word On Results From GRAIL, NASA's Moon Gravity Mission
An anonymous reader writes "Nature has advance word on the first science results from GRAIL, NASA's twin probes launched a year ago which are mapping the gravity of the Moon from lunar orbit. This is coming out in advance of any official publication or NASA release, so the data isn't available, but the story trails what the PI Maria Zuber told a Harvard CFA colloquium last week are some of the team's key scientific findings: including that the Moon's crust is substantially thinner than once thought; and some of the more speculative impact basins haven't been confirmed."
Hmm, so the inside of the moon is softer?
Aha! I knew it! "Thin Crust" -- The moon's not made of cheese it's a Pizza!
It's the only way to make sure.
Non-oblig. comic ref.
That said, I think "data" counts as a "non-count" noun in its typical modern usage. Like "information", or "water", or "peanut butter", it may be composed of many individual bits, but it's talked about as a blob, not as a large number of individual bits.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
The term you should be using from now on is "rind".
the Moon's crust is substantially thinner than once thought;
The Moon is really cheese cake - cheese doesn't have a crust but cheese cake does.
If it were fried cheese with a jalapeno center - a Moon Popper - the orbit would be completely different.
Initial data seems to indicate the presence of a monolith buried underneath the surface of the moon. Scientists baffled at the implications.
I used to have a good sig...
So it's plural-possessive?
The "crusts" on cheese are more commonly known as skins.
Cheese cake doesn't have a crust, it has a base.. and we haven't seen any moon bases yet.
I have to say that I'm sorely disappointed in the lack of moon poppers. Poppers are the moondog's nuts.
which is totally what she said
yeah, you got the joke and successfully dumbed it down for everyone. Congratulations!
From http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/is-data-singular-or-plural.aspx
So if data is correct as both a count noun and as a mass noun, which should you use? It comes down to style and personal preference. Many academic and scientific fields, as well as many publishers and newspapers, still insist on the plural count noun use of data, as in The data are compelling, but it is more commonly used as a singular mass noun, as in The data is compelling.
And this is science.
Cheese cake doesn't have a crust, it has a base..
According to Wiki, "crust" and "base" are interchangeable.
Cheesecake is a dessert consisting of a topping made of soft, fresh cheese, usually on a crust or base made from...
Now, we'll see if I started the first pastry flame war EVAR on Slashdot.
and hopes for an anomoly at Tycho.
RIND. Cheese Rind.
WTF is a Cheese Skin? Maybe Edam and Babybel have Cheese Skins, other cheeses have rinds.
The "crusts" on cheese are more commonly known as skins.
It's not called a "crust" or a "skin", it's called the rind.
Cheese cake doesn't have a crust, it has a base.
Base is a generic term, cheesecake has a bottom crust.
It's not called a "crust" or a "skin", it's called the rind.
Cheeses can have both rinds and crusts. The rind is on the outside, and is intended to be there. Crusts, on the other hand, develop mostly unintentionally, and often on the inside too after a cheese has been cut. An outside crust can be treated, e.g. with brine, to create a rind.
As for skins, yes, some have those too. Jarlsberg, for example, has a sprayed on rubbery skin between the cheese and the protective wax. It is NOT a rind, and not meant for consumption (and neither is the protective wax, although I've seen dolts that eat it).
In addition to these, some moist cheeses like Cabecou and Gamalost develop fur instead. It's a fungal layer which can be quite tasty. Sometimes it's compressed into the cheese again to make part of the rind, like in a Brie.
So how come a pizza is a "pie"?
No sig today...
Because it's built on a pastry crust
Free Martian Whores!
I volunteer to be captain. That's Captain Coward to you bub.
Will come when they do a survery of the moon's *magnetic* field.
Well they certainly proved their point. They basically said "Islam is violent" with their crappy film, and surprise surprise, a bunch of Muslims get extremely violent when they hear about it. It is very interesting that so many Muslims have come out to counter-protest and condemn the violent ones, however, but it still shows they have a severe violence problem in their cultures. Here in the West, when nutty Christians get violent, it's only one or two of them (like the OK City bombers, or an occasional abortionist murderer), but in Islamic cultures, it's hundreds or thousands of them at a time.
Slashdot is not what it should be anymore. The real slashdot should have discussions about the consequences of a thin crust. For example, is it having impact on the age of the moon?