Mystery Rising Within Mercury 120
astroengine writes "Something besides volcanic eruptions and asteroid and comet impacts has sculpted the surface of Mercury — an unknown process, possibly still going on today, that causes the ground to swell from the inside out. The evidence, collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft currently orbiting the innermost planet, is scattered all over Mercury, including a dramatic finding that half of the floor of the biggest crater on the planet has been raised above the walls. The MESSENGER team's findings were announced at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston on Wednesday and will be published in this week's Science."
Mystery Rising Within Mercury? (Score:5, Funny)
So it has come to this.
space worm/moth metamorphasis (Score:5, Funny)
I predict the billion year "planet" phase of the great space moth is nearing completion. In another million years, the beautiful space moth will spread its wings and fly away.
It's the Mycon (Score:5, Funny)
Only one man can figure this out. (Score:0, Funny)
Orville Redenbacher.
Quick, look for a man in horn-rimmed glasses and wearing a bowtie!
Re:Mystery Rising Within Mercury? (Score:3, Funny)
So it has come to this.
Nah, it's just the Slashdot effect [wikipedia.org]...
Re:Mystery Rising Within Mercury? (Score:3, Funny)
So it has come to this?
So it has come to this.
Come to this, so it has.
Re:What about this is unusual? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here.
Swelling from the inside out (Score:4, Funny)
As opposed to the other sort of swelling.
Re:just guessing (Score:4, Funny)
No,no. I'll give him computer scientist. Considering how utterly craptastic software has been, There is very little expectation for computer scientists to actually do anything right.
Computer Science is the only profession next to Meteorology where you can be wrong most of the time and keep your job.
Re:Mystery Rising Within Mercury? (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Union, this comes to it.
Re:just guessing (Score:5, Funny)
No,no. I'll give him computer scientist. Considering how utterly craptastic software has been, There is very little expectation for computer scientists to actually do anything right.
Computer Science is the only profession next to Meteorology where you can be wrong most of the time and keep your job.
I don't know. Most senators are re-elected for life.