[X] My Assistant

[Stu]

And the award for "Most icky sentence used in an UMSF post" goes to...

(rips open envelope... smiles approvingly...)

ngunn, for:

they're not birds, just bits of self-organising foamy mucus.

[ngunn]

I don't know Stu - didn't you have something about diseased kidneys in your Titan poem?

[Stu]

Hmmm... good point....

...but which is worse... self organising foamy mucous, or diseased kidneys? There's only one way to find out... FIGHT!!!

(the above will mean nothing to our US members who don't watch "TV Burp", I'm sorry!)

[DFortes]

Hmmm... good point....

...but which is worse... self organising foamy mucous, or diseased kidneys? There's only one way to find out... FIGHT!!!

(the above will mean nothing to our US members who don't watch "TV Burp", I'm sorry!)

Hehe, I'd like to see Harry square up Titan versus Europa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxVLQ1jLU5g

[Stu]

Now I've done it... unleashed Harry Hill on an unsuspecting US and the world beyond... I feel like Oppenheimer watching the first A-Bomb going off, wondering what kind of monster I've let loose...

[DFortes]

Now I've done it... unleashed Harry Hill on an unsuspecting US and the world beyond... I feel like Oppenheimer watching the first A-Bomb going off, wondering what kind of monster I've let loose...

Actually - this is more the kind of TSSM / EJSM fight I'd pay to see....

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/20837/

[Stu]

Funny that!

Before I get accused of going OT again, can I ask if there are any realistic artist impressions out there of what a Titanian lake might look like, based on actual Cassini data like this? Most of the pics I've come across are pre-Cassini, and many show Saturn shining in a very Bonestellian way in the sky above the lakes, which we now know is not possible.

[ngunn]

I quite like this one by Ron Miller:

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[ugordan]

I quite like this one by Ron Miller:

That's a very nice one, indeed, although I'm not sure if the sun would be that well defined (and the consequent lake specular) given the large scattering effect of particulate haze. IIRC, there was a simulated view of the sky floating around somewhere here in a recent paper using actual data from Huygens' DISR measurements.
Overall, I like the low light levels of this image and the foamy appearance of lake surfaces (don't know how realistic that is, though...).

[ustrax]

ngunn, do you mean this slighty titanian agry mob?...:

[ngunn]

Yep, that'll do nicely. (That's me with the beard.)

[edstrick]

...(the above will mean nothing to our US members who don't watch "TV Burp", I'm sorry!)...

Cyril Kornbluth ("The Marching Morons") was right. But the marching morons didn't take over by 300 years in the future. He slipped a decimal point. It was only 30.

[dvandorn]

In re "The Marching Morons":

I have been heard to mention to my friends, in the past few years, that I truly expect to see a new TV game show on the air any day now. Its title? "Take It and Stick It."



-the other Doug

[Juramike]

I have been heard to mention to my friends, in the past few years, that I truly expect to see a new TV game show on the air any day now. Its title? "Take It and Stick It."

"I'd buy that for a dollar!"

[Juramike]

The recently released topographic polar image contains one of the identified "circular features". Here is a context image with arrows indicating the feature in PIA10353:



The craterform feature at [70N, 355W] can be seen in both the T28 and in the T25 RADAR Swaths (it is easier to spot in T28):



And here's the surprise...the entire feature is a topographic rise! It sticks up a few hundred meters from the surrounding terrain.

From the topographic data, the interior of the feature appears infilled almost to the top of the rim. Radar shading indicates that there is a slight scarp inside the "rim" (IIRC RADAR look angle is from below). This seems more consistent with a caldera and less consistent with an impact crater.

-Mike