Starship Asterisk*

emc ... I'm not taking any chances ... I'm going out at both times ... starting to wave 5 minutes early and ending 25 minutes later than when I start ... both times ... This is a once in a lifetime opportunity ... I think ...

so emc and Ed ... anyone ... what time do you think we really need to be waving at Saturn tonight, given that it's about 80 light-minutes away??

This is important stuff !!

I think that if you wave at Saturn tonight starting at 5:27 (E) you will have missed the boat by approx 80 minutes ... which is the amount of time it takes light to get to Saturn at a distance of 900,000,000 miles. Am I right ? JL-Virginia

I don't think the dry ice theory fits ... the "linear gullies" would get narrower toward the bottom of the mound as the ice sublimes. My Theory: These are stretch marks. The mounds were once relatively flat, but molten sulfer flowed out of the ground (smoothly, not in an explosion) a long ...

I have a hard time with the dry ice theory. These streaks remain constant width until the finish line. A ball or chunk of dry ice would sublime as it travels down the slope ... which would cause it to become smaller until vaporized ... which would not cause a constant-width line.