Author Topic: Huygens probe lands on Titan! (Read 5420 times)

Andyr · « **on:** January 14, 2005, 05:43:44 PM »

In case you didn't know, it worked!

Images and stuff are being posted on the ESA website at http://www.esa.int - I for one think it is pretty amazing.

Eral · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2005, 06:30:42 PM »

Part of me gets all thin-lipped and disapproving that we spend squillions of dollars to find out what other planets look like - oh, rocky and dusty, in the mean-time people are dying of hunger, etc.

The other part of me that thinks knowledge is a good in itself, is so impressed and admiring of the achievement - I didn't think it would work. Here we are, finding out how a world is made. Incredible.

I wonder if early science fiction writers who envisaged other planets as fabulous other worlds would be disappointed. My grandfather always liked it when discoveries of similarities and regularity were made across the universe. He used to see it as proof of God.

Ghreyfain · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2005, 07:29:11 PM »

Quote from: Eral on January 14, 2005, 06:30:42 PM

Part of me gets all thin-lipped and disapproving that we spend squillions of dollars to find out what other planets look like - oh, rocky and dusty, in the mean-time people are dying of hunger, etc.

Eh, we could spend all we wanted on space exploration, have free health care for everyone, and feed the hungry if we didn't bother with war, so I don't feel so bad about this sort of thing.

Although yeah, rocks and stuff are pretty boring.

SimDing0™ · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2005, 07:45:00 PM »

I also question the naming of a probe which looks suspiciously like "huge anus" to me.

Andyr · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2005, 07:47:34 PM »

Quote from: Ghreyfain on January 14, 2005, 07:29:11 PM

Although yeah, rocks and stuff are pretty boring.

Rocks rock.

glain · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2005, 08:37:49 PM »

Other than space kinda blowing my mind away, I think this stuff is pretty awesome.

icelus · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2005, 09:03:43 PM »

Quote from: Ghreyfain on January 14, 2005, 07:29:11 PM

Although yeah, rocks and stuff are pretty boring.

Fuck you.

Ghreyfain · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2005, 09:20:34 PM »

Hey, same to you mister What-the-hell-is-a-nectarine.

Mongoose87 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2005, 10:04:07 PM »

Tell me this is an IRC reference and Icelus acutaly knows waht a nectarine. Please.

Eral · « **Reply #9 on:** January 15, 2005, 12:19:05 AM »

Quote from: Ghreyfain on January 14, 2005, 07:29:11 PM

Although yeah, rocks and stuff are pretty boring.

They become more interesting when they're from a million miles away, though.

(Icelus- Rock Fancier. Ghreyfain- Astronomical Philistine.)

Caedwyr · « **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2005, 01:12:48 AM »

I'll jump in here to afirm that rocks=teh roxxor!!!!11onoe!

I'd also like to add that anyone who feels that rocks are boring=teh suxxor

Echon · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2005, 02:00:05 AM »

Quote from: Andyr on January 14, 2005, 07:47:34 PM

Rocks rock.

Exactly. This stuff is exciting.

-Echon

seanas · « **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2005, 03:43:27 AM »

Huygens - not coincidentally, he discovered Titan.

jester · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2005, 08:54:41 AM »

Shouldn't we have made contact by now or do we need James Cameron to do the job?

Dark Raven · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2005, 06:23:42 PM »

I don't care about rocks, I want to find life forms and a new planet to live on/explore.

icelus · « **Reply #15 on:** January 19, 2005, 06:29:23 PM »

You people are slowly killing me with your poisonous words.

* icelus goes to huggle his rock collection

Caedwyr · « **Reply #16 on:** January 20, 2005, 12:43:46 PM »

<--- Chimes in with the saying "If you don't grow it, you mine it".

*Looks covetously at icelus' rock collection*

jester · « **Reply #17 on:** January 20, 2005, 01:33:07 PM »

'Walking Tall' and 'The Scorpion King' can hardly be called a collection.

Eral · « **Reply #18 on:** January 22, 2005, 05:28:13 AM »

St. Jo sent me here. I told Opera she'd be cross. But would he listen? No. Once they get a trailer it all goes to their heads.

It said on the news tonight that they haven't found any signs of life on Titan. Not a big surprise, but then I thought about Jester and Blood Raven, and hoped they're not too disappointed. Apparently Titan cannot sustain life because of the methane in the atmosphere. Umm, didn't we already know that about Titan?

jester · « **Reply #19 on:** January 22, 2005, 08:53:12 AM »

I thought we are just searching for rocks. Aliens would be irritated, if we claimed to be searching for other intelligent lifeforms.

Veloxyll · « **Reply #20 on:** January 30, 2005, 07:48:51 PM »

Unless of course we found life that could breathe methane. Which makes me somewhat confused about the comment that Titan couldn't support life. We've known the atmosphere is methane for...forever. I will blame it on crazy news people and be content tho.

Eral · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2005, 12:34:10 AM »

I guess the media are in a bind on that one. Do they assume everyone listening to the item knows about Titan and just tell us the new stuff? Or do they have to quickly educate everyone in the 30 sec grab? Probably No.2. Electronic media debate, etc.

Quote from: Veloxyll on January 30, 2005, 07:48:51 PM

Unless of course we found life that could breathe methane.

Should you be encouraging them?

Reverendratbastard · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2005, 04:00:10 AM »

Quote from: Eral on January 31, 2005, 12:34:10 AM

Quote from: Veloxyll on January 30, 2005, 07:48:51 PM
Unless of course we found life that could breathe methane.
Should you be encouraging them?

i was just thinking "um, i know a few living huffers and former huffers..."

but 'truly subsist on' is a reasonable inference, of course.

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