Science Return to Saturn
posted by on March 12 at 18:20 PM
…Saturn’s ring becomes a cast-iron balcony on which the inhabitants of Saturn take the evening air.
The arms of spiral galaxies, the rings of Saturn, rainbows, sand dunes, life, consciousness, cities, and symphonies all are ordered structures that emerge when many interacting particles, or “agents”—be they molecules, stars, cells, or people—are subjected to a flow of energy.
I thought the rings of Saturn were made up of lost luggage.
What the fuck Mudede? Your posts have become increasingly cryptic. You're freaking me out.
That is some sweetness.
I know. Every post is wonkier than the last one. You really need to give the drugs a break for a while, Charles.
I agree. You really shouldn't post when you're high.
What is the architect trying to prove with all the compound curves and multicolored rings, anyway?
Tear that shit down and replace it with something rectilinear.
And monochromatic, preferably.
This post should be accompanied by the music of Sun Ra.
You arrogant pricks should notice the quote boxes and use Google to find out who is being quoted.
Dude. Adjust the dosage, will ya?
The mysterious agent you're looking for is called 'physics'. Quite fascinating, actually.
The google was of no use for the second one, elenchos.
Speaking of Saturn, around the same time you posted that, NASA's Cassini probe was whizzing 30 miles (!) over the South Pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus at 9 miles per second. That's too fast to get pictures of the moon's pole, but just after that. Cassini will fly right through the liquid water plumes discovered to be jetting out of cracks in Cassini's icy crust a couple of years ago so that the probe can sample their composition.
BTW, Saturn is around 746 million miles away...
Check it out here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
Bah!
and god handed me the world, but diminished to the size of an apple. And I ate the world.
oh i left out god's comment "and he said to me ...this thou must eat. And I ate the world...."
so much for trying to show up CM...
@1
BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
Also, on a related subject, Cassini discovered last week that Saturn's moon Rhea has a ring of its own...!
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=820
I think Charles is just amused to see his posts go over so many heads.
I thought iron balconies were wrought, not cast.
wringin' em's too expensive.
Chas Mudede is Carlos Castanada's bastard child.
In theory.
I'm disappointed but not surprised that so many people resist using their brains to see other viewpoints, understandings, visions.
Bastardizing science into something a philosopher can "understand" is not another viewpoint, Vince.
I liked the first part though.
Jesus Mudede, could you at least stop tagging these posts as "Science"? Don't you guys have an "Inane Ramblings" tag or something?
What about the rings around Uranus? Any philosophical musings on those?
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