Johnatone Posted January 15, 2005 Janderson said:So what was the point of sending it there? Some bullshit point to get congressmen to sign off billions in tax dollars. Jesus Fuckin' Christ, and people wonder why I'm Republican. 0 Share this post Link to post
geekmarine Posted January 15, 2005 Titan has conditions similar to what the early Earth probably had, chemically speaking. Scientists are interested in studying it in hopes of better understanding the origins of life. Not that they expect to find life there, too cold, but they are hoping to find the chemicals of life. There, that a good enough reason? 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted January 15, 2005 ScareCrow said:Some bullshit point to get congressmen to sign off billions in tax dollars. Jesus Fuckin' Christ, and people wonder why I'm Republican. May come as a shock, but not everything you see is American. The Huygens probe was built by the European Space Agency. The Italian Space Agency provided Cassini's high-gain communication antenna. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scuba Steve Posted January 15, 2005 ScareCrow said:Some bullshit point to get congressmen to sign off billions in tax dollars. Jesus Fuckin' Christ, and people wonder why I'm Republican. A couple hundred million dollar space probe is hardly even on the level of wastefulness as so many other things in our government. Subsidising large businesses like the airline or railroad industry, tax exemption loopholes for large businesses. 20 billion dollar secret space satellites, Star Wars Programs, Balistic missile defense systems... a "cheap" space probe (which wasn't even paid for by America) is hardly a big concern if you're worried about governmenr bloating. 0 Share this post Link to post
Udderdude Posted January 15, 2005 ScareCrow said:Some bullshit point to get congressmen to sign off billions in tax dollars. Jesus Fuckin' Christ, and people wonder why I'm Republican. I suppose you think this was a better use of taxpayer dollars? http://www.costofwar.com/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted January 15, 2005 AndrewB said:Give them a break. Their throughput is like a fraction of what a modern dialup modem is. Wrong. Data was transmitted at 60-140 kilobytes per second. The ping was horrible, however. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 15, 2005 Quasar said:Now if some green thing with antennae would just run across the picture.. They know we are here. They are coming! 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted January 16, 2005 Ahaha, oh man my sides are hurting after that. Thanks Dan ^_^ 0 Share this post Link to post
Captain Red Posted January 16, 2005 ScareCrow said: Jesus Fuckin' Christ, and people wonder why I'm Republican. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Even if you where retarded enough to believe that the very republican Son of Star Wars was necessary and effective enough to justify it's 40 billion dollar bill, Didn't Gorge W Bush announce plans to go to mars last year? 0 Share this post Link to post
Caco-Puff Posted January 16, 2005 Are those oceans in the photographs? 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted January 16, 2005 Here's an image of the "shoreline" from another angle: Shoreline I'll let you be the judge of whether or not that's fluid or mushy terrain or whatever. My guess would be that's it a fluid, since the the lighter land near the dark stuff looks like it was weathered from a fluid running along it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted January 16, 2005 I'm too lazy to read the entire thread, so maybe this has been posted before, but isn't the Huygens's mission to dive into one of those oceans and find out what's below? 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted January 16, 2005 That was one possibility, however the probe would be able to capture data regardless of where it landed, be it sea or land. It seems as though Huygens landed near an ocean surrounded by "fog" or "clouds", but not in it. So far we've only seen pictures, but a microphone/microphones mounted on the craft recorded winds blowing around during descent. It wouldn't surprise me if in the following days we get some harder data that the other pieces of equipment are or were collecting. 0 Share this post Link to post
dsm Posted January 16, 2005 Goat said:somethin a LITTLE bit better These are only the first photos released buddy, we'll get better when they've further processed the data collected by the probe. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted January 16, 2005 IIRC the "oceans" or "lakes" on Titan are liquid hydrocarbon and various organic chemicals. Imagine being in a really cold puddle of oil, I have a feeling it's kinda like that. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted January 16, 2005 Snarboo said:Here's an image of the "shoreline" from another angle: Shoreline Ah, that's more like it :) I'm as clueless as everyone else to what's in that picture exactly, but with a little imagination it does look like a rugged coastline on another world - which is awesome. You know, as in the original meaning of the word, not as in 'my hands are awesome!'. 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted January 17, 2005 This is some pretty badass stuff here, sure we'll probably not find an ancient buried civilization (although that would be a major plus) but stuff like this always gets me excited. 0 Share this post Link to post
MRB_Doom Posted January 17, 2005 All shit put aside, that shoreline is quite yummy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 17, 2005 Snarboo said:Here's an image of the "shoreline" from another angle: Shoreline Holy crap, that looks like a wave over there on the left. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cyb Posted January 17, 2005 S1lent said:Yay! Rocks! This made my day. dude, seriously, if you don't care about this thread, then please do us a favor and stop reading it. That goes for everyone else. 0 Share this post Link to post