I h3x you!
Complex magnetic fields perhaps?
Caught the "cyclops" storm last month - the size of it creeped me out.
Hah! We laugh at your puny Earthling 'Pentagon'! Ha ha!
I think we have to consider the possibility that Saturn is run by the Masons.
Oh, that's just the nut the Saturnians turn to tighten the, um, crust.
*points Fes to BSG discussion thread, where mct is waiting patiently for BSG discussion*
How is there a "north" or a "south" in space? (or on Saturn or here even) I suppose it's in relation to the galactic center?
MCT: I am of the mind that the BSG conversation should, in the interest of nonspoiling it for Medusa (and silent others), be conducted via discreter channels. Buzz me using that wuzzah we used that time at that place near the thing.
I concur!! mr medusa & I just got 2.0 & 2.5 last night, watched the first episode of 2.0.
We have a nerd infestation in thread 13983!
But I wanna heer the BSG discussion! No fair!
BSG spoilers in a thread about Saturn . . . that's a paddlin'.
Best Saturn pictures EVAR. Click on that first jpeg link, get blown away, i.e. all the way out the corridor into the alleyway garbage can, bum first.( From a previous post by homunculus that i can no longer find.)
BSG = Best Saturn Graphics. On topic you guys! So uh, let's discuss.
*silence*
Come for the freaky human eye-like hurricane at the south pole
This was one of the last sentences spoken to me during the most expensive phone call of my life.
Best.Saturn.Graphics.EVAR.
*extracts self from garbage can*
Ain't it the truth!
StoryBored, that awesome picture is my wallpaper now. Every time I look at it I contemplate the awesomeness of the Planet of the Goths.
Previous observations have shown that Saturn's south pole is warmer than other parts of the planet by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Damn, Saturn is a weird place.
Sometimes I want space travel so much that it just fuckin' hurts.
I promise not to visit the BSG thread anymore, so go have your little discussion!
the idea of a storm 5,000 miles across is sooooo....awesome, staggering, wild!
Sometimes I want space travel so much that it just fuckin' hurts.
I have the same thing with Green Lantern power rings.
I suppose it's in relation to the galactic center
I thought it was determined in relation to the overall magnetic flux generated by the lodestone in the Goat Nebula?
Planet of the Goths.
Why is it the Planet of the Goths?
mmmm, SaturnMonkeyFilter: Sometimes I want space travel so much that it just fuckin' hurts.
MonkeyFilter: We have a nerd infestation in thread _______.
Wow...
Every time I look at it I contemplate the awesomeness of the Planet of the Goths.
Amen PA! Another wondrous thing about these photos is the thought that we're the first humans to see Saturn in full glory. The best that Galileo could see was this:
...and to his eyes they weren't rings they were the "ears of Saturn".
???? Darn it, it worked in preview. Thanks minda, the "ears" pic I wanted to post is the second one. (thanks for the extra page, smt!)
Okay this is seriously weird, but now i can see the pic on this page.
Why is it the Planet of the Goths?
(deep breath) Because....
As far as the medieval dudes knew, Saturn was the planet furthest from the sun. It was also the only (non-Earth) planet not named after an Olympian god-- rather, Saturn is the Roman name of Cronos, the Titan who fathered Zeus, swallowed him and was defeated by him. To a medieval astrologer, Saturn was a negative planet to have in your horoscope; it was also associated with the humour of melancholy, the black bile that caused introspection and depression.
In the Hermetic version of Christian Cabala that became popular during the Renaissance, Saturn was rehabilitated a bit: furthest from the sun was closest to the fixed stars and to God. Melancholy, it was noticed, tended to affect thinkers, scholars and poets. In the years following the death of Queen Elizabeth I, melancholy became a vogue: Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Middleton (probably) wrote The Revenger's Tragedy, Dowland wrote Flow My Teares, and all the cool kids wore black and quoted John Donne. They had, in effect, become history's first Goths.
So that's why I think of Saturn as the Planet of the Goths.
Thanks, Professor Kitzel! ;)
Yeah, thanks PA!
(Also, it has better accessories than all the other planets.)
Apologies for astrological derail in serious astronomy thread.
I thought histories first Goths were those crazy Germanical dudes, you know:
Ostro-, Visi-, their good friend Longobard etc.
:D
/history nerd
history's
/d'oh
*snicker*
She said "Longobard".
....but did they listen to Sisters Of Mercy?
Bauhaus
Dude. OK, your Goths beat my Goths. And my Goths love it.
why don't your Goths and my Goths put on way too much black eyeliner and go out dancing :D
They will dance. ON SATURN.
To re-rail the thread: one of Saturn's moons is....
THAT'S NO MOON!
Cool picture of the southern hurricane-whirlpool-storm thingy on today's APOD.
tee hee! *whisper* *whisper* *snkkk* hee! hee!
Grinding Ice.
That's fun to say. Grinding Ice. Grinding Ice. Grinding Ice.
Saturns' Rings are Clumpy.
This is news because before they thought the rings were more even, more like evenly-applied paint particles if you will.
Now it's more like cottage cheese. Only made out of space rocks. And from another planet.
The quadruple transit on Saturn was pretty sweet.
As to the second link: even though detecting otherworldly lightning is undeniably cool, I must confess to disappointment that we could only perceive it as little white blotchy flashes..
Those "little white blotchy flashes" are probably several thousand times more powerful than the ones we have here. It's all a matter of scale and resolution.
Hah! We laugh at your puny Earthling 'Pentagon'! Ha ha!