From today's Picture Show on NPR:
Suppose The Earth Got Saturn's Rings...
January 20, 2010
By Robert Krulwich
This little video boggled my mind, mostly because it is so precisely imagined. What would our sky look like, asks artist Roy Prol, if the rings of Saturn got transferred to Earth?
Those rings stay put. They don't shift around. But people shift all the time. So, if you lived in Quito, in Ecuador, the rings would be above you, but skinny, like a sharp cut in the sky.
Leave Ecuador for Manhattan? From a northern angle, those same rings would splay into a huge double band, bigger than any skyscraper. In Sweden, they get low and fat. In Madrid, they look like side-by-side railroad tracks.
Would kids grow up differently under such different skies?
Would they paint differently?
Write different stories?
Dream differently?
I wonder
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow...ml?sc=fb&cc=fp
that's pretty badass
lol mma
What if Uranus... I got nothing
I saw this on a bumper sticker
What if Uranus is really a black hole.
lol green ranger
he's my favorite ranger!
Cool video. Thanks for sharing it.
those rings, could be little colonies...
another article came out today about mars
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nas...-1225821859032
NASA orbiter photographs phenomenon that looks like trees... on the surface of Mars
* Staff Writer
* From: Herald Sun
* January 21, 2010 12:00AM
TREES growing on the Red Planet? What at first looks remarkably like groves of pine trees sprouting from rolling Martian hills covered in pink grass is actually an optical illusion.
The "trees" are trails of debris caused by landslides as Mars' spring season warms the planet's surface and generates ice melts.
The hills are sand dunes coated with a thin layer of frozen carbon dioxide.
One of the avalanches that cause the tree illusion has been caught in action in the image, just visible to the left of centre.
The bucolic but alien scene was captured by the most powerful camera sent to another planet.
The 65kg, $50 million camera is aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and is designed to view the planet's surface features in far greater detail - down to 30cm - than has previously been possible.
Scientists hope that the detail it captures will help studies of Martian channels and valleys and the planet's volcanic landforms.
Last edited by TDMVPDPOY; 01-20-2010 at 04:08 PM.
Actually Saturn's rings are not stable. They are drifting away from Saturn. If Saturn is billions of years old, why does it still have rings?
Saturn is Scientific proof the solar system is not as old as the Evolutionist want you to believe.
Sorry, ATRAIN but I couldn't find a way to work in anything about penises to make this thread more appealing for you
Sorry, ATRAIN but I couldn't find a way to work in anything about penises to make this thread more appealing for you
mouse is such an attention . Every ing remotely scientific thread is another opportunity for mr anti-everything to get on his soapbox.
is there only one saturn in our solar system?
there should be plenty of saturns out there right?
Would you like to be a Mod I can talk to kori.
Huh? I have never seen you win a debate here, and I hate the Cowboys almost as much as your 9-11 garbage.
That could be said about anyone who post in any topic. including yourself.
lets look at the facts,
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I have only replied to 4 topics in the club you have replied to twice as many.
Looks to me like your still butt hurt about me waxing your ass in The Moon topic. or is it the Cowboys loss to Vikings?
And your point?
Not only do you come across as an attention your like to Hijack topics for your own personal hate. Be a man use the PM's don't drama queen every topic you see me in it's getting old. We get it! you don't like me, add to the topic stop showing your Koriwhat side.
WTF?! He quoted you before you said it! That is crazy!
I apologize to the topic starter but maybe now others can see how this starts. and who starts this it's not me.
I just made a post on my opinions on Saturn. Is that not allowed anymore?
For once, quit playing the victim card when you're called out after lobbing another ignorant shot against anything scientific.
you must have the creationist arguments page bookmarked
wheeeeeeeeClaim CE240:
Saturn's rings are unstable. They gradually drift outward, and disruption from bombardment could mean that they could not last more than 10,000 years. The rings cannot be billions of years old.
Response:
Saturn's rings may be less than 100 million years old (Cuzzi and Estrada 1998). However, that says nothing about the age of the planet. The rings could have formed when Saturn captured a small moon that fell within the Roche limit (the distance below which moons will be pulled apart by tidal forces). This could have happened any time in Saturn's history.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CE/CE240.html
again man... you aren't going to get any sympathy so give it up. stop crying like a big in' pussy you big in' pussy.
It would be incredible, and would definitely affect people's lives especially in their formative years.
Bad enough that people living in cities see about 5% of the stars that are really visible under normal cir stances (thanks alot bin laden). Seeing something like that every time you go outside would remind you of your place in the world, and your world's place in the universe. Remind you of just how small everything you know is. Which I think is something humanity is losing completely.
You can't tell me the average adult isn't blown away when they are exposed to a natural sky unplagued by light pollution. It's incredible. And those are just stars.
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