by neufer » Mon May 21, 2012 1:45 pm
APOD Robot wrote:
A Close Pass of Saturns Moon Dione
Explanation: What's that past Dione? When making its closest pass yet of Saturn's moon Dione late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's rings, and the two small moons Epimetheus and Prometheus. The above image captures part of the heavily cratered snow-white surface of the 1,100 kilometer wide Dione, the thinness of Saturn's rings, and
the comparative darkness of the smaller moon Epimetheus. The image was taken when Cassini was only about 100,000 kilometers from the large icy moon. Future events in Cassini's continuing exploration of Saturn and its moons include tomorrow's flyby of Titan and imaging the distant Earth passing behind Saturn in June.
<<In his book Commemorating Epimetheus (2009), Les Amis credits Epimetheus with bringing to the world our knowledge of dependency on each other described phenomenologically in terms of sharing, caring, meeting and dwelling and loving.>>
[c]Epimetheus: Albedo= 0.73
/ Mean density= 0.64 g/cm³
Prometheus: Albedo= 0.60 / Mean density= 0.48 g/cm³[/c]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_%28mythology%29 wrote:
<<In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (Ἐπιμηθεύς: "hindsight", literally "afterthinker,") was the brother of Prometheus (Προμηθεύς: "foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a pair of Titans who "acted as representatives of mankind". They were the inseparable sons of Iapetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas.
While Prometheus is characterized as ingenious and clever, Epimetheus is depicted as foolish.
According to Plato's use of the old myth in his Protagoras (320d-322a), the twin Titans were entrusted with distributing the traits among the newly-created animals. Epimetheus was responsible for giving a positive trait to every animal, but when it was time to give man a positive trait, lacking foresight he found that there was nothing left.
Prometheus decided that mankind's attributes would be the civilizing arts and fire, which he stole from Zeus. Prometheus later stood trial for his crime. In the context of Plato's dialogue, "Epimetheus, the being in whom thought follows production, represents nature in the sense of materialism, according to which thought comes later than thoughtless bodies and their thoughtless motions."
According to Hesiod, who related the tale twice (Theogony, 527ff), Epimetheus was the one who accepted the gift of Pandora from the gods. Their marriage may be inferred (and was by later authors), but it is not made explicit in either text.
Epimetheus plays a key role in the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler, and in particular in terms of his understanding of the relation between technogenesis and anthropogenesis. According to Stiegler, it is significant that Epimetheus is entirely forgotten in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In his book Commemorating Epimetheus (2009), [Les Amis credits Epimetheus] with bringing to the world our knowledge of dependency on each other described phenomenologically in terms of sharing, caring, meeting and dwelling and loving.>>
[float=right][img3="[b][color=#0000FF]orin stepanek: [i][size=150]"I liked the comparative darkness picture!"[/size][/i][/color][/b]"]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kYj867JeEVY/0.jpg[/img3][/float][quote="APOD Robot"][url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120521.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_120521.jpg[/img] [size=150]A Close Pass of Saturns Moon Dione[/size][/url]
Explanation: What's that past Dione? When making its closest pass yet of Saturn's moon Dione late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's rings, and the two small moons Epimetheus and Prometheus. The above image captures part of the heavily cratered snow-white surface of the 1,100 kilometer wide Dione, the thinness of Saturn's rings, and [b][u][color=#FF0000]the comparative darkness of the smaller moon Epimetheus[/color][/u][/b]. The image was taken when Cassini was only about 100,000 kilometers from the large icy moon. Future events in Cassini's continuing exploration of Saturn and its moons include tomorrow's flyby of Titan and imaging the distant Earth passing behind Saturn in June. [/quote]
[b]<<In his book Commemorating Epimetheus (2009),[color=#0000FF] Les Amis credits Epimetheus with bringing to the world our knowledge of dependency on each other described phenomenologically in terms of sharing, caring, meeting and dwelling and loving.[/color]>>[/b]
[size=175][c][b][u][color=#FF0000]Epimetheus: Albedo= 0.73[/color][/u][/b] :!: / Mean density= 0.64 g/cm³
Prometheus: Albedo= 0.60 / Mean density= 0.48 g/cm³[/c][/size]
[quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_%28mythology%29"]
[float=right][img3="[b][color=#0000FF]Epimetheus & Prometheus were the inseparable sons of Iapetus (shown above)[/color][/b]"]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Iapetus_mosaic_color.jpg/560px-Iapetus_mosaic_color.jpg[/img3][/float]
<<In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (Ἐπιμηθεύς: "hindsight", literally "afterthinker,") was the brother of Prometheus (Προμηθεύς: "foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a pair of Titans who "acted as representatives of mankind". They were the inseparable sons of Iapetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas. [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28175&p=173051#p173051]While Prometheus is characterized as ingenious and clever, Epimetheus is depicted as foolish[/url].
According to Plato's use of the old myth in his Protagoras (320d-322a), the twin Titans were entrusted with distributing the traits among the newly-created animals. Epimetheus was responsible for giving a positive trait to every animal, but when it was time to give man a positive trait, lacking foresight he found that there was nothing left.
Prometheus decided that mankind's attributes would be the civilizing arts and fire, which he stole from Zeus. Prometheus later stood trial for his crime. In the context of Plato's dialogue, "Epimetheus, the being in whom thought follows production, represents nature in the sense of materialism, according to which thought comes later than thoughtless bodies and their thoughtless motions."
According to Hesiod, who related the tale twice (Theogony, 527ff), Epimetheus was the one who accepted the gift of Pandora from the gods. Their marriage may be inferred (and was by later authors), but it is not made explicit in either text.
Epimetheus plays a key role in the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler, and in particular in terms of his understanding of the relation between technogenesis and anthropogenesis. According to Stiegler, it is significant that Epimetheus is entirely forgotten in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In his book Commemorating Epimetheus (2009), [Les Amis credits Epimetheus] with bringing to the world our knowledge of dependency on each other described phenomenologically in terms of sharing, caring, meeting and dwelling and loving.>>[/quote]