Hyugens.

[chcr]

When this thread started, I thought it must be a reference to the scientist, maybe a bio special or something not Cassini...so chcr, you're not an official supergeek yet.

In point of fact, I am so far beyond supergeek that they don't have a name for it yet.

One should note that when I got my 2005 calender two months ago I circled this date. Put a "ring" around it, as it were.

 

[unclehobart]

thanks for the heads up guys! totally forgot that was today! can't believe it actually WORKED! amazing!

Throw a few billion at something other than the UN and its bound to work once in a while.


Sorry. It was an easy cheap shot.

 

[unclehobart]

One should note that when I got my 2005 calender two months ago I circled this date. Put a "ring" around it, as it were.

I bow to your hardcore geekery.

 

[BeardofPants]

Oh wow. I can't believe they finally touched down!!! Too fucking cool!

 

[Sharky]

Simply amazing, awesome, incredible.

 

[chcr]

Anyone listen to the sound files on the ESA website (besides me)?

 

[Gonz]

This image was returned Friday, Jan.14, 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This is the coloured view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, gives a better indication of the actual colour of the surface. Initially thought to be rocks or ice blocks, they are more pebble-sized. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 15 centimetres (left) and 4 centimetres (centre) across respectively, at a distance of about 85 centimetres from Huygens. The surface is darker than originally expected, consisting of a mixture of water and hydrocarbon ice. There is also evidence of erosion at the base of these objects, indicating possible fluvial activity. (AP Photo/ESA/NASA/University of Arizona)

Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All right reserved

ANybody in the mood for a Juliius?

 

[Leslie]

That's very close to the rose-coloured world I live in.

 

[catocom]

http://www.l33t.com/

 

[IDLEchild]

What a lonely world. Anytime I see any pictures of alien surfaces one thing that always pops in my mind is: What a lonely place to be.

 

[Professur]

They came very close to loosing the entire data stream. And then, by some miracle, earth-bound radio telescopes caught the whole damned thing. They could have gotten even more data had they known that those faint signals would be clearly receivable on terra firma.

 

[unclehobart]

What was the cost of this sucker?