Posted on 06/23/2014 7:18:31 AM PDT by lbryce
A mysteriously bright anomaly winked in and out of existence on the seas of Saturn's largest moon, Titan — potentially the first time waves, bubbles or some other unknown features have been seen there, scientists say.
Scientists usually call this spot a "transient feature," but the researchers have playfully dubbed it "Magic Island." Titan, the largest of Saturn's 62 known moons, is 50 percent wider than Earth's moon and 80 percent more massive.
"What I think is really special about Titan is that it has liquid methane and ethane lakes and seas, making it the only other world in the solar system that has stable liquids on its surfaces," lead study author Jason Hofgartner, a planetary scientist at Cornell University,told Space.com. "It not only has lakes and seas, but also rivers and even rain. It has what we call a hydrological cycle, and we can study it as an analog to Earth's hydrological cycle — and it's the only other place we know of where we can do that." [Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, Explained (Infographic)]
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These are the folks whom after observing a star 100 million light years from Earth...
Bull crap! The furthest exoplanet found so far is 500 light years away not 100 million light years away.
...being temporarily blocked by what is hypothesized to be an orbiting planet,...
Bull crap! There are two methods of determining if there are planets orbiting stars.
...will after making a few hasty calculations determine that its Earth sized,...
Bull crap! The calculations are quite precise and anything but hasty.
...may, I said may, have oceans on the surface with thick Amazonian Jungles...
Bull crap! The article you linked didn't say that and you can't find any article anywhere that does.
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So do I. If someone is going to criticize science, they should do so accurately.
Thanks for the post. I was going to but felt it just wasn’t worth the effort on him.
Between you and me you’re probably the wiser one! :-)
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