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The lakes and rivers on Titan aren't frozen, they're made of methane (it rains methane too).
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15-01-2005, 05:11 PM
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i'm quite excited about further results of the huygens probe, most of all because
it's controlled by a bunch of german scientists located in a town not far from where i live  after most parts of our earth have been thorougly explored, space is the very place for human exploration interests to be concentrated on. i can't understand why there are people who are not curious about what might be discovered out there... |
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15-01-2005, 05:14 PM
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triton is colder than pluto, and might have life on it! OMG someone send a probe to land on it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(moon)
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15-01-2005, 05:36 PM
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The thing about life is that it doesn't go anywhere fast, that means it doesn't really matter if we send a probe tomorrow or in 10 years time.
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15-01-2005, 05:47 PM
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for me, i have maybe 40 years left to live, if i make it to 70 :P |
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15-01-2005, 07:01 PM
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w0000t? a probe landed on me? hope not it's an anal-probe...
Bah.. j/k.. yeah, saw it yesturday, but i'm waiting for more pictures and sounds (!?).. those 3 pictures where good, and showed a coastline and so on. But i agree.. Europa is more intresting imho. First read of this probe like 6 years ago in a science magazine.
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15-01-2005, 07:17 PM
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it rains methane....wow
it looks really cool it doesnt even look like its another planet OMG!!! |
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16-01-2005, 03:53 AM
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Great stuff! I want to go to the moon where it rains methane.
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16-01-2005, 08:22 AM
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Even more interesting is that these big drops of rain fall down really slowly and evaporate before even touching the ground.
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16-01-2005, 09:14 AM
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I'm actually more enthralled by Europa as I believe that moon is the ticket mankind need to progress outside the solar system.
They need the gasses from the planet to replenish the fuel they spent accelerating out from earth, and the ice on Europa for processing into water and oxygen. Once that has been gatered the gravity from Jupiter can be used for a small boot towards Saturn where a slingshot manouver will accelerate the ship event faster out of the solar system. Well, that theory is what Arthur C. Clarke has proposed anyway, and it has a ring of truth to me. "2001 A Space Odyssey" is a brilliant book by the way, though the movie is inferior in every way... I have to agree with Sebatianos: What conclusions the braintanks at ESA draw from this data is way more exiting and interesting that the pics themselves. |
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