Moons of Saturn May Be Younger Than the Dinosaurs

Scientific Computing ^ | March 28, 2016 | SETI Institute

[jmacusa]

Well thank you kindly! If’n I’m going up to The Pearly Gates do you want me to be puttin’ in a good word for you?(If’n it’s down yonder I’m bound, don’t you worry none. I know how to keep my mouth shut.)

[Grizzled Bear]

No fair! It’s bad enough that the dinosaurs are extinct, now they’re being called older than the rings of Saturn.

But they still look fabulous!

[JimRed]

But the first ones appeared 200 million years ago.

A blink of an eye in geologic time.

[snarkpup]

Holy moly. That would mean the rings are temporary, and that even Jupitor may get, then lose, rings. Thats mind boggling.

What would be even more mind boggling would be the Earth developing rings. ... Oh, wait. It is growing rings. Space junk.

[gleeaikin]

It depends on which dinosaurs you bring back, the ones that lived between 100mya and 65mya would have been around when the rings were there. Of course, no one can see these rings without instruments that dinosaurs never used.

[Rastus]

Single Planets (Put a Ring On It).

I wonder if any dinosaurs ever vacationed on the moons of Saturn?

[gleeaikin]

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[SunkenCiv]

;’) Loch Ness monsters.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3415731/posts?page=9#9

[Abathar]

Pretty good video comparing rotational 2D solar system like we were always taught as kids to the vortex model of how it really does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU

[ETL]

Apparently...

[ETL]

Here’s a short video of them partying...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONRDwJlCpn4

(full money back guarantee if this doesn’t at least make you smile)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Abathar.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. The electric universe and star water bump.

[SunkenCiv]

Extra to APoD -- just in case I'd not yet done that.

• Phoebe Probably Distant Traveller (Saturn Moon) [6/20/2004]
• "What if earth had rings like Saturn?" [11/23/2009]

[Red Badger]

But are they as old as Helen Thomas?.........................

[Red Badger]

I read once, long ago in some astronomy book, the our Moon, though presently getting farther away, slowly, will at some point begin an inward spiral that will inevitably get to the point of tearing apart through gravity and Earth will have a set of rings!..........................

[SunkenCiv]

The Moon's on the way out -- but if there's sufficient energy left in the Earth's rotation, and the tidal transfer of momentum is effective over the greater distance, the period when the Moon begins escape will lead to some very trying times here on the good Earth.