NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System

NPR ^ | October 18, 2009 | unknown

[Defiant]

NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious ribbon around our solar system —- a stripe made of hydrogen —- that defies all current expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like.

Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, tells NPR's Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific community. "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."

[Defiant]

It turns out we live in a gated community. Note also that now it's ok to quote Rumsfeld.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[Larry Lucido]

New stuff discovered. More proof that all science is unreliable and wrong!!!!!

/s

[Crim]

*snicker*

Rummy made sense to me the first time...

[Bob Eimiller]

It’s like a ring in a bath tub... from all the liberal scum here on earth.

[JRandomFreeper]

Besides the Oort cloud?

/johnny

[Only1choice____Freedom]

"We thought we knew everything about everything..."

Here's the problem right here!!

Why so arrogant?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

"We thought we knew everything about everything"

The arrogance is stupefying!!!

[llevrok]

I hear there is a ring around Uranus.

[piasa]

"There are things we know we know, and that's helpful to know you know something. There are things we know we don't know. And that's really important to know, and not think you know them, when you don't. But the tricky ones are the ones - the unknown unknowns - the things we don't know we don't know. They're the ones that can get you in a bucket of trouble." ------- Donald Rumsfeld

[DannyTN]

"We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."

That first clause is the biggest problem I have with what passes itself off as "science" today.

[Hi Heels]

I thought there was some newly discovered ring around Saturn. Waiting for the ring around Uranus.

Sorry....

[bogusname]

Cool article.

[Hi Heels]

Great, yet crass, minds...

[blam]

Very interesting, thanks.

[Defiant]

I hear there is a ring around Uranus.

That's where the black hole is.

[DannyTN]

"Ribbon of darkness over me...."

[Captain Beyond]

Hopefully The Federation is not giving out green cards to the aliens.

[DoughtyOne]

Quite interesting. I’ll have to admit to taking many scientific discoveries and theories with a grain of salt though. The original theories on many subjects have morphed with time. So these things are interesting, but so will be the next revelation on this issue, and how it alters what we are sure we know now.

[Rembrandt]

I’ve heard that NPR floats. NASA still hasn’t discovered that toilet bowl ring around NPR.

[The Comedian]

And I don't want anyone telling me "there's only one Return, and it ain't of the King, it's of the Jedi."

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Defiant]

I found this interesting:

"It captures an image that looks like what it would be if you were inside of a bubble," Fisher says. "And what it shows is that there is a stripe across the inside of this bubble."

Maybe what they are seeing is a big, universal eye looking in at us. Like this:

[My Favorite Headache]

“We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns.”

Sounds like a liberal to me. Total idiots. Try God for a change...if he wants us to know he will let us know there dipshit.

[Cvengr]

It's amazing what we can find out there.

[My Favorite Headache]

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation We have assumed control. We have assumed control. We have assumed control.

[blam]

LOL...maybe.

[Publius6961]

Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, tells NPR's Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific community. "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."

Maybe someone should pass this nugget of modest wisdom by that phony alpha male, Al (the-issue-is-settled) Bore...

[tlb]

Several years ago it was announced the Voyager spacecraft was slowing as it was reaching the edge of the solar system and deep space. The thinking was the craft was reaching unanticipated resistance as it encountered the streaming solar winds generated by other stars.

Sol generates its own solar winds. It might make sense that as our outward stream meets and neutralizes the incoming stream, there might be a zone formed like a Sargasso Sea around the perimeter of the system. A ring of gas and dust.

[maine-iac7]

Our solar system is encased in a sort of protective layer called the heliosphere, which shields us from harmful cosmic radiation

Well, now, is could be to protect us from outside harm - or it could be protecting the rest of the Super Universe from harm from US...

Kinda like a fence around ones property...It can protect the people within - or without...

I think, were I part of a higher intelligence 'out there' , I'd want a shield between my world and this one!

[Gene Eric]

>> NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System
>>
>> Fisher: “We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns.”

Has anyone told Fischer the telescope was focused on Obama’s halo.

[scott7278]

Bookmarked.

[beagleone]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.

[GingisK]

If politics is any indication, this new find is similar in every respect to a “ring around the bathtub”.

[razorback-bert]

Guess I am the only one who the read the scifi book, Crystal Speres?

[razorback-bert]

Guess I am the only one who the read the scifi book, Crystal Spheres?

[dfwgator]

In After the Uranus Jokes.

[TChris]

> "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."

New stuff discovered. More proof that all science is unreliable and wrong!!!!!

No, but often insufferably arrogant.

[Defiant]

Or maybe, just maybe, that ring is just the setting that holds our galaxy in place on the collar of a giant cat that roams around on a much larger planet in another galaxy.

[Captain Beyond]

LOL! Good one :) Rush 2112 one of there best.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Just more proof of the amorphous nature of science.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree.