Stationary Hexagon on top of Saturn

[AKIRA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzL194jiTyY&feature=player_embedded

 

[V-Man339]

Aliens are straight ****ing with us.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Some reason I immediately thought of carbon chains.

 

[Stigmata]

Saturn's moon, Rhea, experiences strange, unexplained electromagnetic effects with no known sources.

Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only non-Earth object in the solar system known to have stable liquid on its surface.

There is a hexagon on the north pole of Saturn.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Saturn and its surroundings, are harbored by aliens.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Dicks, dicks everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SN8I9Fw8M

 

[Bad^Hat]

 

[VirusType2]

I guess we weren't supposed to see it from that angle. Really bad polygon count.

 

[Planetary]

It's been replicated in the lab.
http://news.discovery.com/space/saturns-north-pole-hexagon-mystery-solved.html
See?

 

[Warped]

anyone ever stir in honey in with their tea?? Every morning I see a Galaxy swirl its awesome!

also Titan should be our number 2 priority. #1 is asteroid detection and deflection/destruction/whathaveyou

 

[dfc05]

It's been replicated in the lab.
http://news.discovery.com/space/saturns-north-pole-hexagon-mystery-solved.html
See?

Thanks, that's pretty cool.

I always liked that Uranus managed to get hit so hard it tilted over nearly 90 degrees. It's not mysterious but it's still awesome.

 

[Viperidae]

also Titan should be our number 2 priority. #1 is asteroid detection and deflection/destruction/whathaveyou

Um, k.

Jupiter represent.

 

[Dynasty]

Thanks, that's pretty cool.

I always liked that Uranus managed to get hit so hard it tilted over nearly 90 degrees. It's not mysterious but it's still awesome.

I only actually heard about this 2 nights ago on Discovery Channel.

Something came into our galaxy and caused a ***king planet to tilt sideways. Thats just insane.

And Jupiter and Saturn shouldnt be where they are apparently. We are so damn lucky to be where we are. Jupiter acts like a net for any comets heading for Earth.

We're just the right distance from the Sun? Venus, nothing! Mars, nothing! Earth? Fridge magnets, Spandau Ballet, anything you want!

What makes me smile is that no matter what we think or what we see, we actually dont have much of a clue of anything in space. Just because it relates to what we have back here on Earth doesnt mean its actually the same out there.

''We are searching for water on planets because where there is water, there is life.'' We are limiting ourselves by our own interperatation of what is possible.

Just because water is necessary for life here on Earth, doesnt mean it's necessary ANYWHERE ELSE.

Just because we believe it to be true, doesnt mean it is.

Ive always wondered if our first Earth contact with Aliens, where they come down, somehow always in humanoid form so we can relate, and prove to us that everything we know is wrong. That what we know about atoms is wrong, what we know about colours is wrong etc etc etc.

We are limiting our perception of the Universe based on our own findings, based on what we have determined is 'scientific fact'. We have no primary data to work on except a few soil samples from Mars. We have so much to learn. Our brains just cant comprehend it. And what pisses me off, is that the vast majority of people are more interested in what's happening to Cheryl Cole in god-damn Heat magazine, or if Brad and Angelina really ARE a couple, or who the next member of Big Brother will be voted off.

The Universe just absolutely blows my effing mind. I say we trim the heard here on Earth to save some money and give humanity a longer life expectancy, and devot our lives to exploration. Money will be the only thing holding us back from exploring the awesomeness of space. '"Well we'd love to invent space travel, but the government has cut our fundings to give more money to the benefit claimers.''

 

[Remus]

It's been replicated in the lab.
http://news.discovery.com/space/saturns-north-pole-hexagon-mystery-solved.html
See?

You ruined everything! :hmph:

 

[mindless_moder]

''We are searching for water on planets because where there is water, there is life.'' We are limiting ourselves by our own interperatation of what is possible.

True but it isn't out of ignorance, we only really have one shot to get it right with these sorts of things. So would you rather explore a planet which has water or one which doesn't ?.

 

[StarBob]

This is much better than the theory I originally read. It was something about like... vibration resonance from core activity causing the gases to move a certain way and all this crazy stuff. Fluid dynamics makes a lot more sense to me.

I like the Dynasty had this whole mindblowing experience post. It's the equivalent of blowing your load with knowledge. I'm also facinated by the scope of the universe. I mean I wish I could live in a time when all of this knowledge is universally appreciated and embraced by humanity. People are stuck on relatively menial things and ignore the fact that their star dust filled bodies and blink-of-an-eye lifetimes mean nothing to the universe as a whole. If we devoted as much time and effort to disovering these things as we do toward advancing military technology and managing standing armies, humanity would have probably made millions more life altering discoveries by now.

I mean we went from barely being able to launch rockets into space to landing on the moon in like 10 years because there was a push to do so. With the same funding and drive over the past 40 years... who knows what we could have accomplished.

Oh well it's just a dream.

 

[15357]

Well you know, without military applications, we wouldn't have sought to invent radar or long-range communications, all those sensors we need on those probes.

Hey, after WWIV, we woudl prolly invent warp drives.


But in all seriousness, I wish that we would reach the stars within my lifetime.

 

[StarBob]

Well you know, without military applications, we wouldn't have sought to invent radar or long-range communications, all those sensors we need on those probes.

Hey, after WWIV, we woudl prolly invent warp drives.


But in all seriousness, I wish that we would reach the stars within my lifetime.

Hey going to the moon didn't have any direct military application... we just need another cold war.

 

[15357]

With aliens.


Hah. I bet the appearance of a hostile alien race would seriously speed up space developement. Just goes to show what kind of motivations we humans need to explore space and all its wonders.

Nobody ever does it because space is awesome.

 

[<RJMC>]

''We are searching for water on planets because where there is water, there is life.'' We are limiting ourselves by our own interperatation of what is possible.

Just because water is necessary for life here on Earth, doesnt mean it's necessary ANYWHERE ELSE.

well good luck on the space mission to find life on the planet most scientifically proven to no contain life

 

[Raziaar]

Nature makes geometrical shapes all of the time. It's probably just a natural process.

 

[StarBob]

Nature makes geometrical shapes all of the time. It's probably just a natural process.

It is. There's even a cool link in another post.

 

[Raziaar]

It is. There's even a cool link in another post.

Oh wow, that is pretty cool.

 

[V-Man339]

That what we know about atoms is wrong, what we know about colours is wrong etc etc etc.

Gentlemen, we must acquire knowledge on colors OUTSIDE THE NORMAL SPECTRUM!

 

[Bad^Hat]

Something came into our galaxy and caused a ***king planet to tilt sideways. Thats just insane.

Haha, I love the way you worded this. It's those ****ing minority astronomical objects, I tell you. That'll teach us to put stronger locks on our galaxies!

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry

SO RESTRICTED.

(Nice Bill Bailey reference, though )

 

[Stigmata]

I have no doubt that alternate chemistries can support life. When reading this:

"Silanes, which are chemical compounds of hydrogen and silicon that are analogous to the alkane hydrocarbons, are highly reactive with water, and long-chain silanes spontaneously decompose. Molecules incorporating polymers of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms instead of direct bonds between silicon, known collectively as silicones, are much more stable. It has been suggested that silicone-based chemicals would be more stable than equivalent hydrocarbons in a sulfuric-acid-rich environment, as is found in some extraterrestrial locations.[4] Complex long-chain silicone molecules are still less stable than their carbon counterparts."

all I can think is "anthropocentric bias".

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I think in the end it comes down to amino acid formation right?

 

[Stigmata]

Sort of. It's more that we need to be able to envision life without the amino acids that make life on this planet. These amino acids only exist because of the specific chemistry of our planet, and in the end, it's not "amino acids" so much as easily-replicated building blocks in general that allow life to exist. Maybe in methane-based chemistries with high pressures, the amino acids would be five times more chemically complex? Then from that, it would follow that the stages of life from microbial to complex are correspondingly larger than what we find on Earth (among TONS of other differences). We just have an incredibly hard time envisioning these chemistries and their effects on life because they simply don't exist on Earth, outside of little local hotspots in oceans, and in laboratories.