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Siberia
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Brazil
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 Posted - 11/30/2005 : 14:44:44 [Permalink]
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| Like I said, next thread, let's just limit ourselves to asking whether or not there are man-made satellites around. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/30/2005 : 15:15:00 [Permalink]
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The forest is there,
But can't see it for the trees.
Buffoon in orbit.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/30/2005 : 23:32:11 [Permalink]
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Whilst on my way to church, I happened to come across this. After giving it a little thought, I decided to make a probably futile attempt to raise the level of intellectual discourse in this thread with it.
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Titan's atmosphere is remarkably like Earth's, but even more complex and multilayered, according to results from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe.
The lander also saw signs of lightning and found chemical clues to the source of Titan's methane, which probably bubbles up from deep inside Saturn's giant moon.
Titan is the only satellite in the solar system to have any appreciable atmosphere. It is mainly nitrogen, like Earth's air, but it is 10 times as dense as our terrestrial atmosphere. As a result, the parachute-braked descent of Huygens to the surface in January took a leisurely 2.5 hours, giving it ample time to sample the gases around it.
The atmosphere turns out to be an exotic layer-cake. It has a troposphere and stratosphere, as on Earth, divided by a boundary called a temperature inversion. But much further out – 500 kilometres above the surface and higher – Huygens' Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI) detected many more such inversions, each defining their own narrow atmospheric layer.
That is unlike Earth, says Marcello Fulchignoni, head of the HASI team. But it comes as no great surprise, because Titan's atmosphere is so much thicker. Fulchignoni thinks that some of these upper layers may be quite stable and may undulate in great slow waves, driven by Saturn's gravity.
Now, here's the skeptical question: how could the EU's lander enjoy such success and record so many fascinating discoveries if Cassini-Huygens was an hoax?
Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Scotty
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 01:40:33 [Permalink]
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Judging by the following news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4482702.stm - it appears that the EAS buffoons are still at it - this time without NASA's help in any way ....
Beautiful picture by the way - small fragile - and adrift in the empty expanse of space ...Pity BB wasn't ... no that's unkind......
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 02:21:18 [Permalink]
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Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
Hey! Don't try to cut us out of The Conspiracy. We wan't to be part of it to. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 05:13:45 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
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Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
Hey! Don't try to cut us out of The Conspiracy. We wan't to be part of it to.
Any good conspiricy has room for all. Welcome Sweden, to the Vast Brainbrake Plot to Undermine Exploration!
DOWN WITH THE BUFFOONS!! DOWN WITH THE SOLAR SYSTEM!! ANARCHY NOW!!!! Oh, wait.... that last one's mine. Sorry, b.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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lord_hevonen
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 07:04:25 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
Now, here's the skeptical question: how could the EU's lander enjoy such success and record so many fascinating discoveries if Cassini-Huygens was an hoax?
Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
So far bigbrain has been unable to tell us anything about the structure of the conspiracy, how widespread it is and how it works. Usually conspiracy believers have such theories, which makes me suspect that he is trolling. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 08:03:05 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by lord_hevonen
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Originally posted by filthy
Now, here's the skeptical question: how could the EU's lander enjoy such success and record so many fascinating discoveries if Cassini-Huygens was an hoax?
Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
So far bigbrain has been unable to tell us anything about the structure of the conspiracy, how widespread it is and how it works. Usually conspiracy believers have such theories, which makes me suspect that he is trolling.
Yeh, and indeed, he's the most unusual troll I've seen. But in his defense, he's fun, and to our benefit, he's encouraged some very fine references from us. As it is said, "Every silver lining has a dark cloud."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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bigbrain
BANNED
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 14:13:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
30 November 2005
Artist's impression of the descent and landing sequence followed by ESA's Huygens probe to Titan.
Only and still artist's impressions.
Never one real image
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"Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit" (Flattery gets friends, truth hatred)
Publius Terentius Afer, "Terence", Roman dramatist
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 14:20:33 [Permalink]
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Big Brain.
Yes or No...
Are there man-made satellites in orbit around the earth right now? |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
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lord_hevonen
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 16:07:36 [Permalink]
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| Bigbrain, my girlfriend has worked on ESA projects along with her father. Am i safe to live and sleep with her? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 17:09:41 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by bigbrain
Originally posted by filthy
Or are we to be told that the Europeans are lying buffoons like NASA?
30 November 2005
Artist's impression of the descent and landing sequence followed by ESA's Huygens probe to Titan.
Only and still another artist's impression.
Never a real image
And whom, my dear blatherskite, would be stationed on Titan to capture such images? Stephen Spielburg? The ghost of "Dr. Flash" Edgerton?
Or maybe the Titaniputians should have taken them and sent them back to earth by e-mail.
C'mon bro, you can do better'n that.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 19:36:11 [Permalink]
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| This isn't exactly the latest news, but it can at least explain something about a certain poster here. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Scotty
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/02/2005 : 07:40:42 [Permalink]
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| I really don't suppose there's much point in reminding BB that the Black and white image he posted Is from the surface of Titan , how can you be sure BB , well the telemetry that included the image was sent from the Saturn space -the doppler shift of the signal was IMPOSSIBLE to fake ... OK BB how do you get a signal from Saturn without actually going there .... |
"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!" -
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bigbrain
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Posted - 12/02/2005 : 12:55:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
This isn't exactly the latest news, but it can at least explain something about a certain poster here.
"The Times August 05, 2005
Where rivers run high on cocaine
By Nigel Hawkes
Analysis of waste water in Italy shows a startlingly high level of drug abuse
THE rivers of Italy are flowing with cocaine, say scientists who have adopted a new approach to measuring the extent of drug misuse. The biggest river, the Po, carries the equivalent of about 4kg (8lb 13oz) of the drug a day, with a street value of about £20,000".
Instead of simulating to spend a lot of money going to Saturn,
instead of spending a lot of money to make a wrong war against Iraq, you ought to spend a lot of money to make war against the drug.
 
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"Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit" (Flattery gets friends, truth hatred)
Publius Terentius Afer, "Terence", Roman dramatist
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