Cassini's Best Discoveries of Saturn and Its Moons (theverge.com) 25
Loren Grush, writing for The Verge: Early tomorrow morning, NASA scientists will say goodbye to their Cassini spacecraft -- a hardy probe the size of a school bus that has been orbiting the Saturn system for the last 13 years. Launched in 1997, Cassini has spent a whopping 20 years in space, lasting through two mission extensions while going above and beyond what it was designed to do. But tomorrow, the probe will dive into Saturn's atmosphere, where it will break apart and cease operating. It's a sad time for the scientists who have worked on this mission for years, but also a triumphant one: Cassini leaves an impressive legacy of scientific discovery in its wake. Here's a nice video to go with it.
And in about two or three years... (Score:5, Funny)
The floating, lighter than air Saturnians shall respond in force to our raining down radioactive death upon them.
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'It became necessary to destroy the Earth to save it', a North Korean major said today. He was talking about the decision by Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to launch all of their missiles knowing that the United State would launch a full retaliation regardless of civilian casualties.
DJ T-Rump tweeted "I for one will never welcome our Saturnian overlords. Covfefe ergo est." before pushing the big red button on his desk to authorize the apocalypse and order one last diet Coke.
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Apocalypse, of course, means: Thick crust, double cheese, triple topping pizza with Trump Steak on top.
Re:And in about two or three years... (Score:5, Funny)
For years their mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
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You may have not intended to appear plagaristic, as pretty much every nerd should recognize it, but sad to not attribute this genuinely funny comment to its ACTUAL author Douglas Adams.
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A passage about a pair of warring alien races, the Vl'Hurg and the G'gugvuntt, that wanted to launch an attack on Earth:
"...Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mis
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Hair today, gone tomorrow.
This is the kind of stuff that makes America great (Score:1)
What makes America great? When we aspire. When we reach upward. This.
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Cassini is a joint NASA, ESA and Italian Space Agency project. It's what makes humans great, not America.
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I saw an actual mock-up from JPL in a museum. It is big. Without putting it next to an actual school-bus it's hard to say how accurate that description is, though. I'm not used to comparing probes to vehicles, and thus its hard to mentally compare.
Check this out (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQsDM3i4lZE&t=328s
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lol. Got us a Richard Hoagland fan here. Remember kids: a pixel is actually an artificial structure, like a secret base, or alien ship. Never a picture element.
Got any more 'spact facts' to enlighten us normies with?
NASA has credibility mate - you, a shit-talking dumbass AC on slashdot, don't. Remember that when you're telling people who to trust.