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dilo View Member Profile	Sep 19 2005, 07:15 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	This clean-filter narrow-field images ofDione was taken on Sep,16. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00039619.jpg There is a strange feature on the left of the moon.. This meteor-like shape is not visible in other images of the same sequence, so it is almost surely a cosmic ray signature, but a very strange one (never seen something like this, before!). Any alternate explanation? PS: It remind me an image from 2001: a Space Odissey (from the final, unforgottable Bowman's trip through the universe)... do someone else had the same flashback? -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

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QUOTE (dilo @ Sep 19 2005, 08:15 PM)

This clean-filter narrow-field images ofDione was taken on Sep,16.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...4/N00039619.jpg
There is a strange feature on the left of the moon..
This meteor-like shape is not visible in other images of the same sequence, so it is almost surely a cosmic ray signature, but a very strange one (never seen something like this, before!). Any alternate explanation?
PS: It remind me an image from 2001: a Space Odissey (from the final, unforgottable Bowman's trip through the universe)... do someone else had the same flashback?

Dilo:

Didn't you see the next image in the sequence?

Bob Shaw

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dilo View Member Profile	Sep 19 2005, 09:52 PM Post #3
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Sep 19 2005, 08:35 PM) Dilo: Didn't you see the next image in the sequence? Bob Shaw -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

RedSky View Member Profile	Sep 19 2005, 10:23 PM Post #4
Member Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 218	Maybe its the planet killer cloud interacting with some matter and generating some visible light. http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20050912/112653720001.html Who makes up these stories?! I can see this getting on the evening news and talk shows drawing much alarm. There's just enough that sounds like science to cause the media and public to ignore the "tongue-in-cheek" babble (mangled information chaos cloud produced by Hawking black hole radiation).

dilo View Member Profile	Sep 19 2005, 10:32 PM Post #5
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Yes RedSky, I'm disappointed. This article is an obvious joke to us, but most people would believe it's real!... ("Entarteinment & Gossip" classification on the top should suggests the truth, however) -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

Bill Harris View Member Profile	Sep 20 2005, 12:57 AM Post #6
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105	The guy is obviously a fruitcake... QUOTE И снова - никаких Albert Sherwinski-x нету. Ни Dr, ни Mr, ни пр. 3. Тогда просто --Bill -------------------- Dawn-- Ceres Pluto Encounter Rosetta Mission

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Sep 20 2005, 02:27 AM Post #7
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Sep 19 2005, 07:57 PM) The guy is obviously a fruitcake... --Bill Sounds like something from The Onion to me. http://www.theonion.com/content/index Or from Gregory Benford's SF novel Eater (which I recommend): http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/books/eater_000317.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Sep 20 2005, 03:01 AM Post #8
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Sep 19 2005, 09:27 PM) Sounds like something from The Onion to me. http://www.theonion.com/content/index Or from Gregory Benford's SF novel Eater (which I recommend): http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/books/eater_000317.html I was close - I just noticed that the red dust story is from the Weekly World News. Oy. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

Guest_Myran_*	Sep 24 2005, 12:31 PM Post #9
Guests	QUOTE RedSky said Who makes up these stories?! This guy obviously are a victim himself, hallucinating after having his head dipped into the information mangling chaos. but yes I noted it was in the entertainment section and actually read it trying to see what Sci-Fi film they were trying to sell. When there wasnt any I checked back for the date and since it wasnt one april 1 story, i'd say its quite irresponsible of Yahoo running it.

RedSky View Member Profile	Sep 24 2005, 01:59 PM Post #10
Member Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 218	Regarding the killer cloud article... I actually had to try and convince an alarmed friend why it couldn't be real. Besides the incredulous concept of a mangled informational chaos cloud, the astromonical facts were also just as ludicrous. Since it was traveling "near the speed of light" heading directly toward earth, and is to arrive in 2014 (June 1 at 9:15 am EDT), that means it must be around 8 or 9 light years away! That's twice as far as the nearest star(s). ... and they say they "saw it" obliterate a large asteroid". At that distance... really. And getting an exact trajectory to earth over an 8 ly path... bah. A 10 million mile wide cloud is a very tiny cloud, indeed. How electrons, or whatever, could hold themselves together in such a "cloud" is totally unknown. The story might have been actually more scary if it said it was a cloud of positrons that would annililate any matter it came in contact with instead of the mangled information chaos bit. Also, as huge as a 10 million mile cloud might seem to the public, its only about 1/10th the earth-sun distance. It could easily slip through the solar system and never touch a thing. Anyway, these alarmist jokesters should have a science advisor if they want their "stories" to have legs. That could really be dangerous.

mike View Member Profile	Sep 24 2005, 11:32 PM Post #11
Member Group: Members Posts: 350 Joined: 20-June 04 From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Member No.: 86	It's an 'article' from the Weekly World News, who also brought us Bat Boy, and Bat Girl, and endless sightings of Bigfoot and Elvis controlling the weather, etc. etc. etc. It's more of an editorial than anything, except that it purports to be factual, sort of, because it uses certain words, uhh, they never did claim it was true, did they...

Reckless View Member Profile	Sep 25 2005, 10:06 AM Post #12
Member Group: Members Posts: 221 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 217	QUOTE (mike @ Sep 25 2005, 12:32 AM) It's an 'article' from the Weekly World News, who also brought us Bat Boy, and Bat Girl, and endless sightings of Bigfoot and Elvis controlling the weather, etc. etc. etc. It's more of an editorial than anything, except that it purports to be factual, sort of, because it uses certain words, uhh, they never did claim it was true, did they... I also like the idea that we could be evacuated and off to Andromeda before 2014 it seems to be taking forever to get back to the moon. Roy F

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Sep 29 2005, 05:40 AM Post #13
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Hmmm... at last we have proof that an alien vessel is in orbit around Saturn? http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA07592_modest.jpg -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853