Posted on 01/15/2005 3:38:33 AM PST by cabojoe
This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens.
(Excerpt) Read more at esa.int ...
I was wondering about what they might be called. Would it be "Titanians" or "Titanics"? BTW... what have the folks in Idaho settled on? Just curious.
Hmmm...
University of Pittsburgh health physicist Bernie Cohen has offered to eat a weight of plutonium equal in mass to the amount of caffeine that Ralph Nader would be willing to eat. His point was that taken orally - ingested - plutonium has the same specific toxicity as caffeine.
Ralph Nader used to claim that if a pound of plutonium was released into the environment it would end life on the Earth. The Russians performed the experiment at Chernobyl of releasing about 2500 pounds of plutonium. If life on Earth has ended, the suppression of this fact is the singularly most successful disinformation campaign in world history.
Nader's claim was based on research that showed that inhaled - as an aspirate - one pound of plutonium can induce two-million cases of lung cancer. Since the population of the Earth in the 1950's was about two-billion (10^9) Nader borrowed three orders of magnitude out of open stock, used the wayback machine to knock off a couple decades and redefined "life" to mean "human life". He left unanswered how a pound of plutonium released into the environment would transform itself into an aspirate, go back in time several decades, multiply itself by three orders of magnitude and then magically uniformly distribute itself into the lungs of all two-billion people. Or why all other lifeforms, seeing the demise of the human race would simply stop existing. Other than that he was on to something.
No hydrocarbons in the ice?
Is it me, or is there an obvious rhymtic sound in the low frequency sound? Almost like a bass drum or tympany beat. I know it is easy to hear patterns in white noise, which is why I ask.
It sounded like white noise with gain changes interspersed.
since I didn't know what I was expecting to hear, the audio doesn't seem interesting to me...what is the interest in the audio??
It was used as filler - because the GCMS data was not ready for prime time yet.
it almost looks like the pics of the coast off Phuket....
now THAT's scary....
I work in an R&D center in the U.S. for a European company. The article you linked summarizes the European attitude towards research. They do think American researchers are "cowboys" for real time data releases. Nothing gets released without lots of vetting and in depth analysis. Lay people are incapable of professional interpretations, therefore raw data must be closely guarded. Only select data that is in 100% agreement with the experts is permitted to be shown outside the group of official researchers. That's why our U.S. R&D team is 10 times more productive than our European counterparts, even though there is only 1/10 of us here. And they hate it because we will launch a new product without years of study to fully understand it. Needless to say, we are responsible for 50% of the company's global profits becasue of our "cowboy" attitude.
Okay. Thanks. "Titanians" it is...:-)
The real story of Huygens are the results of the chemical composition analysis - but where's that data?
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