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Ceres' bright spots are back: Dawn captures new images of mystery features - and scientists STILL...
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| Jonathan O'Callaghan
Posted on 04/20/2015 8:06:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: sten
Respectfully, that’s absurd.
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posted on
04/20/2015 10:34:05 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Swordmaker
Glowing in the dark - especially at the same brightness level - pretty much dumps the reflection hypothesis for me.
If it's aliens, they obviously want to be seen.
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posted on
04/20/2015 10:34:12 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Swordmaker
The last person who left Ceres forgot to turn off the lights.
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posted on
04/20/2015 11:18:32 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Fred Nerks
The last person who left Ceres forgot to turn off the lights. Must be some of them thar new fangled LEDs to last this long. . .
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posted on
04/20/2015 11:20:52 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Swordmaker; All
It’s a Berserker and the shiny spot is just a bit of metal showing through the otherwise pounded surface from the last solar system it sterilized...
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posted on
04/20/2015 11:46:34 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
04/21/2015 12:06:47 AM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
WOOPS! Didn’t mean for that to be in red...
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posted on
04/21/2015 12:07:56 AM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Axenolith
Its a Berserker and the shiny spot is just a bit of metal showing through the otherwise p
ounded surface from the last solar system it sterilized... At this point, that may be as good an explanation as any.
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posted on
04/21/2015 12:10:28 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: BenLurkin
Segregated swimming pools...
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posted on
04/21/2015 4:08:15 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/21/2015 5:04:45 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Talisker
To: jjsheridan5
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posted on
04/21/2015 5:57:11 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/c/c0/20130218161954!The_Mote_In_God's_Eye_-_original_hardcover_edition.jpg)
Explanation of the bright spot: A powerful laser propelling a space ship with "light sails".
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posted on
04/21/2015 5:59:37 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
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posted on
04/21/2015 6:00:17 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Swordmaker
It’s a colony of Earthlings, set up by Marconi and his people when he built flying saucers and they left for Mars.
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:54:15 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:55:11 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m thinking its ice.
In the graphic you can see as the spot emerges from the dark that its a raised spot in the center of a crater like a rebound mountain.
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:58:24 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: cripplecreek
/bingo
Ice has a higher albedo than whatever covers most of the surface of Ceres.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:00:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: SunkenCiv
We’ll know a lot more when they start doing spectral analysis when Dawn settles into a true orbit.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:03:29 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: cripplecreek
Maybe it’s the priests of the temple of Ceres.
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posted on
04/21/2015 2:19:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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