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128 New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn in Mindblowing Discovery
Science Alert ^ | March 12, 2025 | Michelle Starr

Posted on 03/12/2025 11:27:12 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Sounds more like an asteroid belt.


41 posted on 03/12/2025 12:57:26 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Red Badger
I just love technical scientific jargon!............

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."

42 posted on 03/12/2025 1:26:53 PM PDT by null and void (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity. H/T MortMan)
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To: null and void

😁...............................


43 posted on 03/12/2025 1:27:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Saturn isn’t as lonely as I thought he was…


44 posted on 03/12/2025 1:29:22 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: duckbutt

A somewhat cleaner definition is that a moon orbits a planet, while an asteroid is a body smaller than a planet that orbits the Sun. Of course, then you still have to differentiate between an asteroid and a comet, and then when it comes to comets, some have been known to orbit planets, at least for a while...

Is a moon that gets pulled down into its “parent” planet a meteorite?


45 posted on 03/12/2025 1:34:44 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: Disambiguator

Uranus?


46 posted on 03/12/2025 1:47:25 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: EvilCapitalist
Uranus?

You cracked the code!

47 posted on 03/12/2025 2:01:44 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

I don’t know what you mean by 2^6 and 2^7.


48 posted on 03/12/2025 2:31:19 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger
They are not "moons," they are debris. Read this and it all makes sense:


49 posted on 03/12/2025 2:52:35 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Red Badger

C’mon, lighten up, Francis. It’s all in the semantics. Saturn has trillions of moons in the generic sense.


50 posted on 03/12/2025 5:24:35 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Verginius Rufus

2^6 is 2 to the 6th power, or 2 multiplied by itself 6 times, equal to 64.

2^7 = 2x2x2x2x2x2x2 = 128, the number of moons discovered in the article.


51 posted on 03/12/2025 8:47:25 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: duckbutt

Its all relative.


52 posted on 03/13/2025 7:49:14 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Tymesup

Thanks. It has been decades since my last math class, and anyway I think that would be shown as a superscript in a textbook...typing online requires different conventions.


53 posted on 03/13/2025 10:01:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: montag813

I read a bit of Velikovsky a long time ago...had a great imagination but a lot of his ideas must be taken with a grain of salt. I think he claims somewhere that a comet turned into the planet Venus.


54 posted on 03/13/2025 10:04:05 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

You’re welcome.

The one trick I knew to make a superscript didn’t work here. Oh, well.


55 posted on 03/13/2025 7:23:32 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Verginius Rufus

You’re welcome.

The one trick I knew to make a superscript didn’t work here. Oh, well.


56 posted on 03/13/2025 7:30:37 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Verginius Rufus
2^6 is 2 to the 6th power. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 64

2^7 is 128.

It just seemed odd to me that both counts were powers of 2. Will the next find be 256?

57 posted on 03/14/2025 2:38:25 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free
Powers of 2?

It looks like there has been a conspiracy by Dualists that the rest of us have been blissfully unaware of.

58 posted on 03/14/2025 2:49:13 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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