Starship Asterisk*

neufer wrote:

Floating a double-edged razor blade as a compass

bystander wrote:

Benbrilling wrote:
"many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade." doesn't make any sort of sense. In proportion to what?

1 km in proportion to the overall size of the rings is thinner, relatively speaking, than the edge of a razor blade in proportion to its size.

Another gross understatement
(only understood by those who were shaving back in the 70's):

Double-edged razor blade 39 x 20 x 0.25 mm [125 to 1]

Rings of Saturn 300,000 x 300,000 x 1 km [300,000 to 1]

3 x 3 cm. sheet of Gold Leaf: 30,000 x 30,000 x 0.1 µm [300,000 to 1]

garry wrote:Of course the other perplexing question is exactly how the rings of Saturn are formed? Gravity is not the answer unless it is very selective.

neufer wrote:<<Toilet of the Gods>>

bob(mc) wrote:
My view of the 'Close Inspection' shows a dog with its head in the toilet. Is this intentional - or just a scew up?
bob(mc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_of_the_Gods_%28opera%29 wrote:
<<Toilet of the Gods (Götterdämmerung) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the Ring. The title is a translation into German of the Old Norse phrase Ragnarök, which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied war of the gods that brings about the end of the world. However, as with the rest of the Ring, Wagner's account of this apocalypse diverges significantly from his Old Norse sources.>>

BMAONE23 wrote:

anon wrote:The cat (or dog?) looks like it is just doing a closer inspection of the toilet.

I think the Dog was out partying too late and is in the throes of a hang over. Perhaps a little "Hair of the Dog" would help

anon wrote:The cat (or dog?) looks like it is just doing a closer inspection of the toilet.

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002946/ wrote:

Cassini captured this approximately true-color view of Saturn with its enormous storm on February 25, 2011. The northern storm is obvious, but if you look below it you'll see a subtler band of whirling clouds. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / color composite by Ian Regan

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Pretty picture: Saturn storm
The Planetary Society Blog
By Emily Lakdawalla Mar. 8, 2011

In early 2011 Cassini took several high-resolution panoramas along the enormous storm that had developed in Saturn's northern hemisphere.

This view was captured in an infrared wavelength in which Saturn's atmospheric methane is relatively transparent, yielding tremendous detail of the whorls making up Saturn's weather.
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / mosaic by Astro0

Here's a wide-angle view for context,
taken a day earlier, so the details of
the storm are not quite the same:

Floating a double-edged razor blade as a compass

bystander wrote:

Benbrilling wrote:
"many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade." doesn't make any sort of sense. In proportion to what?

1 km in proportion to the overall size of the rings is thinner, relatively speaking, than the edge of a razor blade in proportion to its size.

MoodyMan wrote:"Close Inspection" when clicked take you to a very sick black cat leaning over a toilet.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12756 wrote:
Original Caption Released with Image:
...
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is in the center of the image. Titan is 5,150 kilometers, or 3,200 miles, across. The smaller moon Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) is on the far right, appearing just below the rings. The tiny moon Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) is barely detectable as a speck on the far left, beyond the thin F ring. To enhance visibility, Pandora has been brightened by a factor of two relative to the rest of the image.
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paulwallace wrote:Look to the far left of the large image. Is that Janus/Epimetheus just beyond the F ring? Or have I had too much coffee this morning?

csudhind@gmail.com wrote:a photo of what looks like a Labrador Retriever taking a quick drink from a commode. Not sure how that relates to APOD!

paulwallace wrote:have I had too much coffee this morning?

Benbrilling wrote:"many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade." doesn't make any sort of sense. In proportion to what?