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Etile
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 02:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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Back in 2005, a suite of six instruments on the Cassini spacecraft detected what was thought to be an extensive debris disk around Saturn's moon Rhea, and while there was no visible evidence, researchers thought that perhaps there was a diffuse ring around the moon. This would have been the first ring ever found around a moon. New observations, however, have nixed the idea of a ring, but there's still something around Rhea that is causing a strange, symmetrical structure in the charged-particle environment around Saturn's second-largest moon.


ooh, spooky

probably a cloaked klingon warbird :idea:

IT'S SO OBVIOUS




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Digital Nausea
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 02:45 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Could be a Mass Relay...




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Tap, Nap, or Snap
Tap, Nap, or Snap
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 03:28 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Pfft, jumpgate. So obvious...




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Do the chickens have large talons?
Do the chickens have large talons?
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 04:00 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


christian science monitor? what???




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god xor reason
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 04:43 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Cruithne?




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Mentor
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 06:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


@andyman: CSM is a decent newspaper really.

Have any black monoliths been spotted in the area?




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I'm the dude!
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 08:50 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dunno about Saturn, but it IS 2010, so maybe there's a monolith floating around Jupiter.



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Just another Earthling
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PostPosted: 07-29-2010 09:36 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


obsidian wrote:
Dunno about Saturn, but it IS 2010, so maybe there's a monolith floating around Jupiter.



I am with obsidian on this one :up:



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Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu
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PostPosted: 07-30-2010 12:04 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Saturn's second Moon is called Cruithne. It was discovered in 1986 and it takes a convoluted horseshoe path around our planet as it is tossed about by the Saturn's and the Moon's gravity.




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PostPosted: 07-30-2010 01:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's a turkey.



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opa!
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PostPosted: 07-30-2010 04:35 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


close thread :olo:




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