Posted on 12/18/2018 7:29:48 PM PST by EdnaMode
Saturn's rings make it one of the most striking planets in the solar system, but scientists believe they could disappear in less than a 100 million years -- which isn't all that long when you consider that the gas giant itself is more than 4 billion years old.
New research from NASA shows that the rings, made predominantly of water ice, are being pulled apart by the planet's gravity and onto Saturn's surface as deluges of "ring rain."
"We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour," NASA's James O'Donoghue, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
"From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years, but add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn's equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live," he added.
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It seems a given that tax-eating government studies will still be providing revenue to otherwise-unemployable people 290 million years from now.
reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics
So who wants unsightly “planet ring”?
Warns?
Isn’t that a bit dramatic?
My questions also.
Is there anything Global Warming can’t do?
Climate change?? Nonsense. This is happening because of the Zionist aggressor’s brutal occupation of Palestine!
Cow farts cause Galactic warming then ?
I learned it from my secret decoder ring. I’m not worried, though -— my tinfoil hat will protect me. I don’t know what the rest of you are going to do...
Nah. They’re going to face the Judge of all the Earth, waaaaay before then.
How much you wanna bet they are gonna find out somehow that the rings come and go depending on the interaction with its own iron core? Like it is seasonal.
Apparently not. It’s out to destroy the whole universe, as we know it, just like the Borg! Assimilate! Resistance is futile!
Well that explains it.
Oh no! What are we gonna do 290 million years from now then?
You wouldn’t be so flippant if you’d had planned on having your brain frozen for future regeneration, like most of them have. Algore will take up two containers, because he’s gotten so fat. Regular deplorables like you and I, will only get one, no matter how fat we get!
Right now, some of the rings are renewed by one or more moons that eject material into them, probably caused by Jupiter's tidal-effect gravity on said moon(s).
Yeah, but what about Uranus?
That’s why I’m for cheap rings. You can replace them if you lose them. Save your money for something else.
That’s why I’m for cheap rings. You can replace them if you lose them. Save your money for something else.
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