Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139
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The Bad Astronomer writes "NASA's Cassini spacecraft took an image of Saturn's giant moon Titan earlier this year that serendipitously provides proof of liquid (probably methane) on its surface. The picture shows a glint of reflected sunlight off of a monster lake called Kraken Mare (larger than the Caspian Sea!). Scientists have been getting better and better evidence of liquid methane on Titan, but this is the first direct proof."
Liquid Methane Eh? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:billion kilometers (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent +1E0 Informative but Pedantic.
Re:billion kilometers (Score:2, Funny)
That unit would scare away readers. "Yikes! A terameter-high terrorist!"
Re:Fossil Oxidisers (Score:2, Funny)
Frozen Nitrous Oxide anyone?
Pssshh. Don't make me laugh.
Re:How do they know it's methane (Score:5, Funny)
ALL THESE FARTS ARE YOURS. USE THEM WISELY, AND DON'T LIGHT ANY NAKED FLAMES.
EXCEPT TITAN. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE, BECAUSE IT BLOODY STINKS.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Yes, right, I'm sure Stanley Kubrick told Arthur C. Clarke the same thing when they were finalizing the screenplay. So now I'm reduced to typing a lot of mindless garbage just to get around the lousy Slashdot filter.
Re:Liquid Methane Eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Where's the TMI mod when you need it?
Re:Liquid Methane Eh? (Score:4, Funny)
Read the name of the "lake", - Kraken Mare.
It's just a big puddle of sea-monster piss, nothing exciting at all.
Re:billion kilometers (Score:1, Funny)
A terameter is a tool for measuring teras.
A terametre is a unit of distance.
Re:billion kilometers (Score:3, Funny)
Its called a terameter. What is the point of the metric system if you don't use the other scales?
Because then everyone would have to look up teramer and google would crash under the /. rush.
Re:billion kilometers (Score:2, Funny)
Of course. And so is "1 inch = 25.4 millimeters"
Let's face it, this isn't rocket science, is it?
Re:Liquid Methane Eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Way to explain the joke, asshole.