Completely and Utterly OT: New Ring Discovered Around Saturn
After experiencing two heartbreaking losses by my favorite teams (Michigan Football and Detroit Tigers), I've decided that sports are merely a tool by a sadistic overlord designed to torture me over long periods of time. As such, I've decided to spend the morning after the Tigers blew opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to win the division to talk about something completely unrelated to sports.
Scientists have discovered that Saturn has a hitherto undiscovered massive ring around the planet.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/10/07/space.saturn.ring/index.html
In doing so, one researcher provided perhaps the best science-related quote of all time:
"This new ring provided convincing evidence of that relationship."
October 7th, 2009 at 9:49 AM ^
Space is pretty cool...
October 7th, 2009 at 10:07 AM ^
Saturn is my favorite planet, and this does somewhat ease the pain of losing Pluto to "Big floating rock" downgrade status from that of being one of our family of planets.
And isn't Saturn up to like 78 moons or something? Honeslty, that planet is full of mysteries! Go Saturn! Next thing you know, we'll find out much of the surface is covered by beer and Beyonce lookalikes!
October 7th, 2009 at 10:08 AM ^
saw the headline and didn't read the article. simply assumed it was 4 years worth of zoltan's punts.
but agreed, i love this shit. space shit, 'tis mind blowing.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:11 AM ^
In speaking of celestial bodies, I heard that they discovered another fat roll around Jabba's torso. He up to 78 - trying to keep pace with Saturn's moon count.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:20 AM ^
When I saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought about making a "Weis is fat" joke.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:07 PM ^
Saturn is a gas giant, after all.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:12 AM ^
is horribly underrated.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:05 PM ^
It's about time someone noticed.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:57 PM ^
I as hoping this was leading to a "Klingons on Uranus" story.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:53 PM ^
Thank you Kornheiser.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:20 AM ^
New ring discovered around Saturn? A massive one? Demonstrates a relationship clearly?
Awww... Sounds like Jupiter finally proposed!
October 7th, 2009 at 10:23 AM ^
How could there be a massive ring around the planet that remained undiscovered even when Voyager 2 flew by? Weird but it just goes to show you how our perception of our universe is constantly changing in big ways.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:41 AM ^
Let me know when they find huge rings around *it*.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:56 AM ^
It was just one of our MNC rings on it's way to Earth - current projections are for it making impact in January of 2012 (almost wrote 2011 but I'll try and temper my enthusiasm just a little bit ;)
October 7th, 2009 at 12:02 PM ^
Zoltan placed the ring there with one of his galaxy blasting punts.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:11 PM ^
a case of Zoltan's home planet building an extra ring in his honor before his impending return home upon the conclusion of this current season.