The rings are maintained by Saturns cymatic column wave whos frequency keeps the integrity of the whole system in tact. This is evidenced by the Hexagonal geometry of its north pole, the EM dark bands in its rings, & the apparent hole in the south pole. Its possible that Saturn has a hollow axis like a giant storm vortex.
AWESOME! I think the Cassini-Huygens Mission has been the most successful & mesmerizing mission ever! They really should do the same for Uranus & Neptune, & send a probe to the moons, ESPECIALLY Neptune's moon, Triton! It's Geologically Active, with Nitrogen Geysers all over the south pole, & a blue-green "cantaloupe terrain" near the equator. The whole moon hasn't been mapped though, nor Uranus' moons. The only images we have are from 20+ years ago from Voyager 2! Send a mission to them ASAP!
@amamuffin "so nice! and to think there are actually people who believe in some biblical God!! THIS IS GOD!!!!"
Not really. This is more a sort of ape-creature race's attempt to get a life. Baby steps.
The efforts of the people who did the work should be recognized. But the efforts of the race which has accomplished so pathetically little while standing on the resources we do? Major "Fail".
We should be sending science probes to nearby star systems. But that's still way beyond the pale.
o trabalho dos telescopios e da equipe de pesquisa está sensacional. porem as pausas para carregamentos deixa muito a desejar e torna o trabalho de estudo e pesquisa muito cansativo e prolongado.
The waves and ripples in the rings are also caused by a moon. As the moon travels it tugs the particles upward. Prometheus and Pandora are called shepherds because they actually are whats keeping the rings where they are. Of all of the moons that Jupiter has 48 of which have been named. We are currently searching for life on 2 moons. Enceladus which is the smaller ice moon closer to Saturn, and Titan which has rivers and lakes of Methane.
@Axellerater You'd be kind of chilly, smushed flat and out of breath pretty quick if you tried to land, but it'd be a cool trip to go around. Check out the hexagon phenomenon at the north pole sometime.
Saturn always had a negative, if not evil significance. In ancient times, it has been called “The Greater Malefic” which was opposed to Jupiter, “The Greater Benefic”. Saturn is esoterically associated with man’s limitations, restrictions, death and decay.
@oleainatoivo His Greek name was “Kronos”, the ruler of time, time being the main factore inevitably leading to the death of mortals.Traditional representations of the “grim reaper” originate from the attributes of the god Saturn, who held the sickle with which he slain his father.
Dear Mr. Bad Astronomy. Youtube search EVA-22. Watch the first 5 seconds, and look at the camera feed monitor. Do you see what I see? Debunk that Mr. Illuminati propaganda man...Or debunk any of the videos on my channel for that matter, which include astronauts urinating on the moon...
So ur saying that Saturn rings will be gone that's bullshit it's favriot planet of all I would love on that planet or the moon and every morning or night I would see Saturn rings
he means having to deal with bad astronomy. take for instance astrological signs and the whole 2012 ordeal and fake moon landing ideas; he refutes them all.
Well, technically, we could be completely wiped out in decades, all it takes is one asteroid that is big enough. As for human produced explosions, it would be quite difficult to obliterate all life living on the surface of the Earth. However If you could produce enough quantities of anti-matter, you could completely destroy the entire planet.
@Ramshobraja I wouldn't give up everything to travel there. But I'd quite willingly pay the trivial amount of tax (literally pennies per capita) required to revive NASA's Titan/Saturn System Mission (TSSM) which most Americans don't even know was cancelled, or even ever existed. Such is the nature of our Bread and Circuses democracy.
@sbergman27 Lol, harsh, but I liked the Robert Heinlein reference; I don't hear him referenced too much. If it helps, I am an American, and I know about the TSSM. I will admit, “To Sail Beyond the Sunset,” was an interesting book to read, although I disagreed with Lazarus’ view on democracy in that particular book. I personally enjoyed, “The Moon is Harsh Mistress,” more. ^_^
@Usagi393 My Heinlein days were so long ago... wasn't "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" written by Lazaurus' mom? My very first science fiction book was the copy of "Red Planet" in our elementary school's library. (39 years ago.) Which book had all the body-sharing and a character named "Eunice"? And, what was the other name... Jubal Harshaw? And a 3rd main character whose name eludes me? ;-)
@sbergman27 Lol, sort of! XD “To Sail Beyond the Sunset,” is written as a fictional memoir by Maureen Johnson Smith Long, the mother, lover, and eventual wife of her son, Lazarus Long. I think it’s the book, “I Will Fear No Evil,” that has Eunice in it, but I haven’t read that particular novel, so I am kind of shaky on that one. Jubal Harshaw was first in “Stranger in a Strange Land,” but he also appeared in, “To Sail Beyond the Sunset," as well as two other books.
@Usagi393 "Maureen Johnson Smith Long, the mother, lover, and eventual wife of her son, Lazarus Long."
But will it play in Peoria? I'd forgotten about those little, err... complications. Yes. I remember now. "I Will Fear no Evil" was the one. I should probably go back and reread all this stuff. It might be interesting to revisit now that I'm decades older. I don't think I've read "Stranger In a Strange Land" since high school. It's Asimov who is my personal all time hero.
@sbergman27 Yea, there were a lot of “complications” in Sunset! XD When I was reading it, I just had a feeling that this was going to end up just like Oedipus, but it had a happy ending, so I was really surprised! When you say Asimov, do you mean Isaac or his wife, Janet? I was never a big fan of either one, either personally or professionally, but I read a few of their works. My favorite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald, much better than Hemmingway! ^_~
@Usagi393 Isaac. To be honest, I've never read any of Janet Jepson's work. I enjoyed Isaac's fiction. (The Robot novels & short stories, & the future history, which featured, but was not limited to the Foundation series. But where I really got to "know" Isaac, was in his wonderful works of nonfiction. He did regular essays on physics for various magazine, which were later published as anthologies. On April 6, 1992, I honestly felt as though I'd lost a personal friend.
@Usagi393 "My favorite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald, much better than Hemmingway!"
I'm more a Science Fiction sort of guy. My exposure to Hemmingway is limited to "The Old Man and the Sea" in high school American Lit. I can barely remember a thing about it except that it was kind of a downer. And I confess that my F. Scott Fitzgerald knowledge is similarly limited. But the word that comes to mind today regarding Gatsby is "futility". I kind of catagorize the theme with Camus' "The Stranger".
@sbergman27 I like novels that are set in any country during WWI, up till the Great Depression (1914-1929.) I am not sure what literary subject that falls under, but that’s my favorite type of novel. I do like science fiction too, but I would say it’s my 3rd my favorite type of novel, (although one of my favorite TV shows is “The Twilight Zone” ^_^) Lol, yea, a lot of the characters WERE futile pple and pple today would probably considered it a futile book. I liked Gatsby though, because
@sbergman27 because I know individuals in my life just like the people in that novel, even though it is set in the 1920s, and I could still learn from its themes as result. I haven’t read “The Stranger,” yet, although it is on my list of books to read. I’m afraid my European literature is limited when it comes to French. For European novels, I typically read German, Russian, and English origin books.
@Usagi393 There's a remarkably prophetic 1898 novela that I would like to dig up and read. The details of the sinking of the Titanic have always been of interest to me. And Morgan Robertson's work, published 14 years previous and titled 'Futility', is eerie in its accidental similarity to the real event. See 'Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan' on Wikipedia for a good description.
@sbergman27 Fantastic! I have always been fascinated with the Titanic too! I am not sure why, there are plenty of other shipwrecks throughout history. The Titanic story does read like a tragic novel, so I am not surprised that a novel was written similar to the events of the sinking before it actually happened. In my opinion, I have always believed, given the time period of new and sudden industrial advances, combined the gaps in nautical knowledge, but still operating under the arrogance and
@sbergman27 delusion that they DID know everything about sailing and their new technology, something like the Titanic was only a matter of time. The Titanic, unfortunately, just got the “honor” of being the first person to the party. They had the proper technology to make the voyage, but lack the wisdom and knowledge to use it properly. Thanks for the reading suggestion!
@Usagi393 Probably the best summary of the facts is Walter Lord's book "A Night To Remember". A fascinating read, and a very good 50's movie. He's very "just the facts, ma'am" in his approach. I followed, with interest, the rediscovery of Titanic, in 1985. Though I must confess that I only did that after the fact. I didn't develop an interest in Titanic until 1988, and a friend directed me to Bob Ballard's work. Titanic's was a freak accident. Iceberg collisions were rare before and after.
@sbergman27 True, and I just meant the way they handled everything was novice at best, especially considering the crew were supposed to be seasoned veterans. Their preparations, their handling during the hit, and the aftermath of it, were all just evidence of the arrogance they had in themselves and how unexpected the hit was for them. They honestly believed nothing could have happen to them, and that is always dangerous thinking to believe you are 100% safe.
@Usagi393 "Novice" is a very good term to apply. "Keystone Cops" might be equally applicable. We all laugh at drills, don't we? We get overconfident and lax. You're right. People talk about the lack of life-boats. But there were enough boats to save over 50% of the passengers. & yet 70% died. It gets uglier when one considers the survival rates of 1st, 2nd, and particularly 3rd class (steerage) passengers. Then again, the crew didn't trust the ratings regarding the boats' capacity on lowering.
@sbergman27 Of course, there are SO many characters in Heinlein’s numerous novels that appear in more than one of his books, there is always room for error! The first science fiction novel I read was, “War of the Worlds.” A default pick for most, but I say start with the classics first! :D
!"#& Dammit!!!! Only 20 to 30 millions year to study saturns rings!! Why is this happening to me, WHY=!??! Not enough time, must go and enjoy the view...
@m0onst9er : Not for another 2.5 billion years. Which gives us plenty of time to blow ourselves up and for Saturn's rings to dissipate. Interestingly, due to the fact that galaxies, and the Universe in general, are almost entirely empty space with a little matter thrown in, there will likely not be many, if any, actual collisions. Galactic structure will be disrupted. If there is enough mass and relative velocities are low enough, we might combine into a larger elliptical galaxy.
In 2004, the cassini flew right thought the rings on its initial flyby of saturn. it turned and to point its high gain antena facing its path to protect it from impacts with the particles. Then it pointed it back to earth. It meanured the particle density among other things.
For years, contrail conspiracy theorists have competed with UFO sighters and alien abduction survivors for air time on late-night radio's "Art Bell Overnight." Their claim: Those puffy, white jet wakes are no mere water vapor, but chemicals sprayed by the government to (a) kill us, or (b) activate mind control chips secretly implanted in our bodies.
Why then has NASA launched a project to engage ordinary citizens - even schoolkids - in monitoring the jet fuel leavings? In a word: climate. NASA scientist Lin Chambers is a principal investigator with CERES, a satellite project that monitors the impact of contrails - essentially man-made clouds - on the Earth's radiant energy systems. Early evidence suggests that lingering contrails affect surface conditions in two ways, particularly in areas below major air corridors.
NASA and ESA are active today, because the majority has decided so. Sorry buddy, you aren't the majority, you've got to try harder, I'm sure you will find people who think like you but even so you won't have the majority, good luck.
NASA and respectively ESA should get a budget raise instead of a budget cut. Where from? Stop paying the sums of hundreds of millions as a golden parachutes for top managers who are partly to blame for this crisis, together with their club-buddies. 2009 is the year of Astronomy, any missions in 2009? Herschel and Planck will save this year. Still it's quite thin for the year of Astronomy. We could (should) have done alot more.
Seen from that point of view, then they shouldn't do any missions at all. There's no guarantee on any given mission that it will work. The Mars rovers are a good example, nobody expected that they would last for so long, but they have. Some work and some don't. But if we never try, how can we be sure?
Mars or the grand canyon? those rovers have been on the news crawling through the desert by remote control as filmed by the fox news crew. let's add a special filter to the film and we have....Mars.
Okay, I get your point. This way we have two geologist robots goofing around in the desert of Nevada. How about the satellites orbiting earth? Are those fake too? I build robots too, and they are by no means remote controlled....they are smart in a specific way. Now if I can build robots without having a degree in robotics, I can surely imagine what the professionals at JPL are able to build with an adequate knowhow. I trust NASA and ESA, but that's only my opinion.
That didn't answer my question... You obviously don't have a clue, so i'll run the figures for you.
less than 0.5% of each tax dollar is given to NASA. That is less than half a cent. Compare that to 22% (22 cents) of each tax dollar which is spent on the defence department (not including black budgets). Why would you hate on NASA so much when so much more money is wasted on gearing up the armed forces? One dept is for the betterment of humanity, the other is for the destruction of it..
Interesting, and whose hands will that be, the rich bankers? Another corrupt and wasteful government agency? It surely won't be you and I. Besides you don't know how corrupt I am and I don't know who you are. What's corrupt for you? The italian president is supposed to be corrupt too, but people vote for him. People decide, demos cratos, if the majority has decided one thing, well that's tough for the minority.
Dude, take some pills, oh and yes I learned, that's why I know every single planet have rings, even if they are very thin, but they have due to their gravity. So yeah... you should learn astronomy.
That's interesting to think about...How long would it take to see everything? Infinity doesn't even come close lol. Don't think i would do it though. I'd probably do it if I could see VY Canis Majoris and land on it haha. Or a bigger planet...if there is one.
You mean if you were able to physically visit these places? If so I understand ... I would travel the Universe for eternity and never look back, I always wanted to see what Jupiter's core was, visit the center of the Milky way? See how large Alpha centuri is, Red giant Betelguese, and if it's possible to
"walk" on a neutron star ... endless ideas, just think of how many different planets there are..
What's "bad" about this?
PutItAway101 2 months ago
The rings are maintained by Saturns cymatic column wave whos frequency keeps the integrity of the whole system in tact. This is evidenced by the Hexagonal geometry of its north pole, the EM dark bands in its rings, & the apparent hole in the south pole. Its possible that Saturn has a hollow axis like a giant storm vortex.
TwoDigitz 10 months ago
@TwoDigitz Thank you for copy and pasting from wikipedia
TheAuraofshadows 7 months ago
Liked it. Put ring on it.
Destroy Byonce`.
EntinludeX 10 months ago
That's my favorite planet. Saturn. I like it because it has rings. :3
123Katiscool 1 year ago
So that's where they made the film ''Lord Of The Rings''
sucky53 1 year ago 5
@9to0Gravity0to9 hmmm no such thing as perfect
willmymon 1 year ago
AWESOME! I think the Cassini-Huygens Mission has been the most successful & mesmerizing mission ever! They really should do the same for Uranus & Neptune, & send a probe to the moons, ESPECIALLY Neptune's moon, Triton! It's Geologically Active, with Nitrogen Geysers all over the south pole, & a blue-green "cantaloupe terrain" near the equator. The whole moon hasn't been mapped though, nor Uranus' moons. The only images we have are from 20+ years ago from Voyager 2! Send a mission to them ASAP!
KarbineKyle 1 year ago
lolol god liked it so much he put a ring on it :)
sparksfly44 1 year ago
AHHHHHHHHH so nice! and to think there are actually people who believe in some biblical God!! THIS IS GOD!!!!
amamuffin 1 year ago
@amamuffin "so nice! and to think there are actually people who believe in some biblical God!! THIS IS GOD!!!!"
Not really. This is more a sort of ape-creature race's attempt to get a life. Baby steps.
The efforts of the people who did the work should be recognized. But the efforts of the race which has accomplished so pathetically little while standing on the resources we do? Major "Fail".
We should be sending science probes to nearby star systems. But that's still way beyond the pale.
sbergman27 5 months ago
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amamuffin 1 year ago
Why is this called Bad Astronomy?
salolamilainen 1 year ago
@salolamilainen the host, Phil Plait, owns a website with the same name, dealing with general misconceptions in astronomy
lzoli18B 1 year ago
He forgot to mention that the rings are also rotating into the planet so eventually they'll simply collide with Saturn.
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ushananditha 1 year ago
o trabalho dos telescopios e da equipe de pesquisa está sensacional. porem as pausas para carregamentos deixa muito a desejar e torna o trabalho de estudo e pesquisa muito cansativo e prolongado.
franciscomontnetto 1 year ago
holly shit, saturn is married!
bygota 1 year ago
You can actually see Saturn's rings with the cheapest of telescopes
Mik5OO 1 year ago
Damnit Sara Leavitt alone!!!!!!!!!!!
JaveDMode 1 year ago
The waves and ripples in the rings are also caused by a moon. As the moon travels it tugs the particles upward. Prometheus and Pandora are called shepherds because they actually are whats keeping the rings where they are. Of all of the moons that Jupiter has 48 of which have been named. We are currently searching for life on 2 moons. Enceladus which is the smaller ice moon closer to Saturn, and Titan which has rivers and lakes of Methane.
Twiztidguy 1 year ago
i would'nt mind going to saturn for a holiday.
Axellerater 1 year ago
@Axellerater You'd be kind of chilly, smushed flat and out of breath pretty quick if you tried to land, but it'd be a cool trip to go around. Check out the hexagon phenomenon at the north pole sometime.
shkotay 1 year ago
Saturn always had a negative, if not evil significance. In ancient times, it has been called “The Greater Malefic” which was opposed to Jupiter, “The Greater Benefic”. Saturn is esoterically associated with man’s limitations, restrictions, death and decay.
oleainatoivo 1 year ago
@oleainatoivo His Greek name was “Kronos”, the ruler of time, time being the main factore inevitably leading to the death of mortals.Traditional representations of the “grim reaper” originate from the attributes of the god Saturn, who held the sickle with which he slain his father.
oleainatoivo 1 year ago
Saturn is Satans planet.
oleainatoivo 1 year ago
Saturn or Satan.
oleainatoivo 1 year ago
this guy is dweeb
realscience1 1 year ago
Wait, I disagree: Crown Jewel in Sol system is Earth, whithout it I wouldn't be around to judge any other planets!
IvanisovitschGrozny 1 year ago 4
@Siniztar88 I'd rather that too... PWN!
sargentaaron2004 1 year ago
@Siniztar88 I'd rather him be talking than you.
sargentaaron2004 1 year ago
LOL lord of the rings!
JigSawFun 1 year ago
nice video. saturn is definitely a gem
AstronomyInformer 1 year ago
@AstronomyInformer If you like Evil
oleainatoivo 1 year ago
LoL, thinner than paper,... 8uIIShit
21mugen82 1 year ago
@21mugen82 He said, "to scale". Listen next time.
MrMZaccone 1 year ago
It's seems like a silly and fanciful idea, but it would be wonderful to walk along the rings of Saturn. =)
droxyy 1 year ago
I am baffled, Saturns rings are gone in 20 to 30 mio years!
MrSpaceartist 1 year ago
Dear Mr. Bad Astronomy. Youtube search EVA-22. Watch the first 5 seconds, and look at the camera feed monitor. Do you see what I see? Debunk that Mr. Illuminati propaganda man...Or debunk any of the videos on my channel for that matter, which include astronauts urinating on the moon...
fizban1977 1 year ago
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DreamsofMajesty 1 year ago
"You'd better soak in the view now, in twenty or thirty million years it might be gone."
:-D
peterlongan 1 year ago
At least we have 20 - 30 million years to look at them :D
The0Burger0King 1 year ago
So ur saying that Saturn rings will be gone that's bullshit it's favriot planet of all I would love on that planet or the moon and every morning or night I would see Saturn rings
905SONICking 1 year ago
No human being ever has seen this beauty before us. It's our privilege...
Pulguitapelusa 1 year ago
Saturn has a moon called Pandora?
DrShaym 2 years ago 3
@DrShaym yup, it's reeeeeally small, though.
Obama4Prezz 2 years ago
what do they mean by "Bad astornomy"?
Chronos 2 years ago 3
@Chronos
he means having to deal with bad astronomy. take for instance astrological signs and the whole 2012 ordeal and fake moon landing ideas; he refutes them all.
Obama4Prezz 2 years ago
Saturn and its rings were known to the sumarians way before 1610.
Piratejenny25 2 years ago
Well, technically, we could be completely wiped out in decades, all it takes is one asteroid that is big enough. As for human produced explosions, it would be quite difficult to obliterate all life living on the surface of the Earth. However If you could produce enough quantities of anti-matter, you could completely destroy the entire planet.
Evandile 2 years ago
I'd give up everything to travel there.
Ramshobraja 2 years ago 34
you can its called astro projection.
Piratejenny25 2 years ago
@Ramshobraja I wouldn't give up everything to travel there. But I'd quite willingly pay the trivial amount of tax (literally pennies per capita) required to revive NASA's Titan/Saturn System Mission (TSSM) which most Americans don't even know was cancelled, or even ever existed. Such is the nature of our Bread and Circuses democracy.
sbergman27 6 months ago
@sbergman27 Lol, harsh, but I liked the Robert Heinlein reference; I don't hear him referenced too much. If it helps, I am an American, and I know about the TSSM. I will admit, “To Sail Beyond the Sunset,” was an interesting book to read, although I disagreed with Lazarus’ view on democracy in that particular book. I personally enjoyed, “The Moon is Harsh Mistress,” more. ^_^
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Usagi393 My Heinlein days were so long ago... wasn't "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" written by Lazaurus' mom? My very first science fiction book was the copy of "Red Planet" in our elementary school's library. (39 years ago.) Which book had all the body-sharing and a character named "Eunice"? And, what was the other name... Jubal Harshaw? And a 3rd main character whose name eludes me? ;-)
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 Lol, sort of! XD “To Sail Beyond the Sunset,” is written as a fictional memoir by Maureen Johnson Smith Long, the mother, lover, and eventual wife of her son, Lazarus Long. I think it’s the book, “I Will Fear No Evil,” that has Eunice in it, but I haven’t read that particular novel, so I am kind of shaky on that one. Jubal Harshaw was first in “Stranger in a Strange Land,” but he also appeared in, “To Sail Beyond the Sunset," as well as two other books.
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Usagi393 "Maureen Johnson Smith Long, the mother, lover, and eventual wife of her son, Lazarus Long."
But will it play in Peoria? I'd forgotten about those little, err... complications. Yes. I remember now. "I Will Fear no Evil" was the one. I should probably go back and reread all this stuff. It might be interesting to revisit now that I'm decades older. I don't think I've read "Stranger In a Strange Land" since high school. It's Asimov who is my personal all time hero.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 Yea, there were a lot of “complications” in Sunset! XD When I was reading it, I just had a feeling that this was going to end up just like Oedipus, but it had a happy ending, so I was really surprised! When you say Asimov, do you mean Isaac or his wife, Janet? I was never a big fan of either one, either personally or professionally, but I read a few of their works. My favorite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald, much better than Hemmingway! ^_~
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Usagi393 Isaac. To be honest, I've never read any of Janet Jepson's work. I enjoyed Isaac's fiction. (The Robot novels & short stories, & the future history, which featured, but was not limited to the Foundation series. But where I really got to "know" Isaac, was in his wonderful works of nonfiction. He did regular essays on physics for various magazine, which were later published as anthologies. On April 6, 1992, I honestly felt as though I'd lost a personal friend.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@Usagi393 "My favorite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald, much better than Hemmingway!"
I'm more a Science Fiction sort of guy. My exposure to Hemmingway is limited to "The Old Man and the Sea" in high school American Lit. I can barely remember a thing about it except that it was kind of a downer. And I confess that my F. Scott Fitzgerald knowledge is similarly limited. But the word that comes to mind today regarding Gatsby is "futility". I kind of catagorize the theme with Camus' "The Stranger".
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 I like novels that are set in any country during WWI, up till the Great Depression (1914-1929.) I am not sure what literary subject that falls under, but that’s my favorite type of novel. I do like science fiction too, but I would say it’s my 3rd my favorite type of novel, (although one of my favorite TV shows is “The Twilight Zone” ^_^) Lol, yea, a lot of the characters WERE futile pple and pple today would probably considered it a futile book. I liked Gatsby though, because
Usagi393 5 months ago
@sbergman27 because I know individuals in my life just like the people in that novel, even though it is set in the 1920s, and I could still learn from its themes as result. I haven’t read “The Stranger,” yet, although it is on my list of books to read. I’m afraid my European literature is limited when it comes to French. For European novels, I typically read German, Russian, and English origin books.
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Usagi393 There's a remarkably prophetic 1898 novela that I would like to dig up and read. The details of the sinking of the Titanic have always been of interest to me. And Morgan Robertson's work, published 14 years previous and titled 'Futility', is eerie in its accidental similarity to the real event. See 'Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan' on Wikipedia for a good description.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 Fantastic! I have always been fascinated with the Titanic too! I am not sure why, there are plenty of other shipwrecks throughout history. The Titanic story does read like a tragic novel, so I am not surprised that a novel was written similar to the events of the sinking before it actually happened. In my opinion, I have always believed, given the time period of new and sudden industrial advances, combined the gaps in nautical knowledge, but still operating under the arrogance and
Usagi393 5 months ago
@sbergman27 delusion that they DID know everything about sailing and their new technology, something like the Titanic was only a matter of time. The Titanic, unfortunately, just got the “honor” of being the first person to the party. They had the proper technology to make the voyage, but lack the wisdom and knowledge to use it properly. Thanks for the reading suggestion!
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Usagi393 Probably the best summary of the facts is Walter Lord's book "A Night To Remember". A fascinating read, and a very good 50's movie. He's very "just the facts, ma'am" in his approach. I followed, with interest, the rediscovery of Titanic, in 1985. Though I must confess that I only did that after the fact. I didn't develop an interest in Titanic until 1988, and a friend directed me to Bob Ballard's work. Titanic's was a freak accident. Iceberg collisions were rare before and after.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 True, and I just meant the way they handled everything was novice at best, especially considering the crew were supposed to be seasoned veterans. Their preparations, their handling during the hit, and the aftermath of it, were all just evidence of the arrogance they had in themselves and how unexpected the hit was for them. They honestly believed nothing could have happen to them, and that is always dangerous thinking to believe you are 100% safe.
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Usagi393 "Novice" is a very good term to apply. "Keystone Cops" might be equally applicable. We all laugh at drills, don't we? We get overconfident and lax. You're right. People talk about the lack of life-boats. But there were enough boats to save over 50% of the passengers. & yet 70% died. It gets uglier when one considers the survival rates of 1st, 2nd, and particularly 3rd class (steerage) passengers. Then again, the crew didn't trust the ratings regarding the boats' capacity on lowering.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 Of course, there are SO many characters in Heinlein’s numerous novels that appear in more than one of his books, there is always room for error! The first science fiction novel I read was, “War of the Worlds.” A default pick for most, but I say start with the classics first! :D
Usagi393 5 months ago
@Ramshobraja ... you would have to give up everything to travel there...
jimbxb 2 months ago
Man, that 'Borealis' apple loop is everywhere these days! Astronomy Cast, Fora TV and now this all use it
tommyk77 2 years ago
!"#& Dammit!!!! Only 20 to 30 millions year to study saturns rings!! Why is this happening to me, WHY=!??! Not enough time, must go and enjoy the view...
PigglyWigglySass 2 years ago 4
wat song is on at the begginig
VideosMusic100 2 years ago
I like your form of sarcasm "enjoy it while you can...."
300tunes 2 years ago
Frickin' luv spacerip!
lgarvey 2 years ago
Sorry, I'll be rotting dead by then.
So might all humanity.
Maybe Earth.
Okay, not Earth, but humanity definitely.
Hey, didn't they say something about our Galaxy going to collide with another neighboring Galaxy?
m0onst9er 2 years ago
@m0onst9er : Not for another 2.5 billion years. Which gives us plenty of time to blow ourselves up and for Saturn's rings to dissipate. Interestingly, due to the fact that galaxies, and the Universe in general, are almost entirely empty space with a little matter thrown in, there will likely not be many, if any, actual collisions. Galactic structure will be disrupted. If there is enough mass and relative velocities are low enough, we might combine into a larger elliptical galaxy.
sbergman27 2 years ago
i wish to fly there :)
(in my dream of course lol)
faoman2007 2 years ago
This is wicked.....
PrincessLeia100 2 years ago
open your asscheeks and put it on youtube.
nuggbubbler 2 years ago
Waaaaait... how can they be as thick as a sheet of paper, if the particles, comprising it reach the size of a house?
XENOpz 2 years ago
its to scale, it means if you had a piece of paper and cut a ring out the size of saturns, the paper ring would be thicker
RyOneLegend 2 years ago
'To scale'
SoNDgs 2 years ago
@XENOpz
That's what I was thinking lol
CokeSupply 2 years ago
pfff.... nobody knows the origin of the rings
that's simple... sauron made them :P
DarthHuru 2 years ago
The rings are formed by trash cans and garbage bags put into orbit by Saturnian houswives
throttlelever 2 years ago 42
frozen space spooge
nuggbubbler 2 years ago
@throttlelever
I can't believe you got +4 for that comment lol
CokeSupply 2 years ago
+5 now,,,was good comment,,:)
tmdkaaskop 2 years ago
@tmdkaaskop
I just gave it a thumbs up too - what the hell :p
CokeSupply 2 years ago
@throttlelever that's very ignorant for you to say, every knows Saturnian housewives aren't aloud to get out of the kitchen.
TheToxicRadio 1 year ago
Lol. You better enjoy this now, while you can, because in 20 or 30 million year it might be gone.
jvictorthegreat 2 years ago
yeah, I'll enjoy it now, cuz in 20 or 30 million years I'll be like, 'fuck, i remember back in the days when saturn had rings'.
nuggbubbler 2 years ago
@nuggbubbler Ha that is what I was thinking!
"Yeah, because I'm going to live 20 to 30 million years."
wavepsychic 2 years ago
Can't the scientists launch a probe into the rings? We would get awesome photos and other data, even if the probe "dies" a few seconds after...
megahurtz30 2 years ago
In 2004, the cassini flew right thought the rings on its initial flyby of saturn. it turned and to point its high gain antena facing its path to protect it from impacts with the particles. Then it pointed it back to earth. It meanured the particle density among other things.
zer0dahero 2 years ago
Did it take closeup photos of the rings? That's what i'd love to see... I bet they sort of look like a landscape.
megahurtz30 2 years ago
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LaurelCowgal 2 years ago
hold on 20-30 millon's might be gone lol i'll be death probly the earth would be distory probly who care then
Neokhan 2 years ago
lots of beings care,we are not the only ones in the universe,young neokhan
5RXP 2 years ago
You're so right. Solar system can't dissapear. Only humans die, not what's made into space, including the earth.
sinning1966 2 years ago
yeah thats what i meant we human's probly would kill are self's and the earth would be distory's thank's to us......
Neokhan 2 years ago
why is evrything named after greek words?
cyprussunizhot 2 years ago
saturn is roman, not greek.
because western science is based off the works of the greeks and romans so they got first dibs with naming crap.
GhostInTheShell29 2 years ago
i didnt mean just saturn
cyprussunizhot 2 years ago
"A few dosn yards across , about the size of a small house."
man to ave a house on one of those Blocks of ice would be sweet!
bobhub600 2 years ago
True, 911 was a biggest hoax in history. But you have to be careful not to get drowned in many other conspiracies.
I believe so many are planted to confuse people and cover up 911.
Your video "911 part 8" is good to make people think!
Stuff like Chemtrails or Nibiru is pure trash!
zvast 2 years ago
'TROLL ALERT'
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javonoUTube 2 years ago
:-))
"all more intelligent than us....we as humans are about as aware a a potatoes..." You don't think much of yourself, do you?
zvast 2 years ago 4
simmer down now
PicoTheWanderer 2 years ago
He is beautiful from a man's view.
But Earth is the most valuable ^_~
xxAtlantianKnightxx 2 years ago
favorite planet
iron888888 2 years ago
This is good - except I am not getting the paper-thin to scale comment.. please reply me. Thanks.
khal007 2 years ago
it is I guess area : thickness ratio. If you shrink the ring to the size of a paper it will be thinner than the paper that makes it thinner in ratio.
justawordaway 2 years ago
the rings are about 30 feet thick, i think he meant to say if u look at them from far away they look as thin as a piece of paper.
Brian79camino 2 years ago
or the ring is sombody mining the planet?
hebalott 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
it's made of gas you fag
WeirdMrBilly 2 years ago
Stop having a boring ring orbit.
Stop having a boring life.
Lonestarr1337 2 years ago
hehe who's going to be around in 23,000 years? i know i am
:P
Chloetyne22 2 years ago
Imagine living on Saturn and being able to view these magnificent rings, close up. :)
dujl 2 years ago 2
A pity the closets anyone can get saflly is one of it's moons.
drsdino 2 years ago
That would be fucked up. Almost like living in the most high-class hotel with water and champagne.
sinning1966 2 years ago
NASA is improving your lives by participating in the chemtrail program
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
I'd like to see why you think LCROSS (the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) is a waste of money. Just stating so doen't make it a fact.
Finding water ice on the moon is actually pretty important. So far, LCROSS has done a bang-up job.
I guess next you'll be saying man never landed on the moon....
karadan100 2 years ago
no,yes
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
For years, contrail conspiracy theorists have competed with UFO sighters and alien abduction survivors for air time on late-night radio's "Art Bell Overnight." Their claim: Those puffy, white jet wakes are no mere water vapor, but chemicals sprayed by the government to (a) kill us, or (b) activate mind control chips secretly implanted in our bodies.
lol
karadan100 2 years ago
Why then has NASA launched a project to engage ordinary citizens - even schoolkids - in monitoring the jet fuel leavings? In a word: climate. NASA scientist Lin Chambers is a principal investigator with CERES, a satellite project that monitors the impact of contrails - essentially man-made clouds - on the Earth's radiant energy systems. Early evidence suggests that lingering contrails affect surface conditions in two ways, particularly in areas below major air corridors.
karadan100 2 years ago
i amnnswer u wit thumbs down :C
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
i actually learnt alot from that
chickenman23456 2 years ago
NASA and ESA are active today, because the majority has decided so. Sorry buddy, you aren't the majority, you've got to try harder, I'm sure you will find people who think like you but even so you won't have the majority, good luck.
enoughzenough 2 years ago
just wanaa share amazing fact that.. all planets rotate counter clockwisely but venus is only a planet which rotates clockwisely.....
ghousevil 2 years ago
Uranus. XD
lilletizz 2 years ago
lol view my video about saturns ring going bye bye
ShanceLoad 2 years ago
NASA and respectively ESA should get a budget raise instead of a budget cut. Where from? Stop paying the sums of hundreds of millions as a golden parachutes for top managers who are partly to blame for this crisis, together with their club-buddies. 2009 is the year of Astronomy, any missions in 2009? Herschel and Planck will save this year. Still it's quite thin for the year of Astronomy. We could (should) have done alot more.
enoughzenough 2 years ago 2
maybe they should quit wasting money- like they are doing with the LCROSS mission
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
Seen from that point of view, then they shouldn't do any missions at all. There's no guarantee on any given mission that it will work. The Mars rovers are a good example, nobody expected that they would last for so long, but they have. Some work and some don't. But if we never try, how can we be sure?
enoughzenough 2 years ago
Mars or the grand canyon? those rovers have been on the news crawling through the desert by remote control as filmed by the fox news crew. let's add a special filter to the film and we have....Mars.
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
Okay, I get your point. This way we have two geologist robots goofing around in the desert of Nevada. How about the satellites orbiting earth? Are those fake too? I build robots too, and they are by no means remote controlled....they are smart in a specific way. Now if I can build robots without having a degree in robotics, I can surely imagine what the professionals at JPL are able to build with an adequate knowhow. I trust NASA and ESA, but that's only my opinion.
enoughzenough 2 years ago
nasa is just another corrupt and wasteful government agency. one day space research and exploration will be placed into the proper hands.
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
Lol, spoken like a true ignoramus. You know nothing about NASA, obviously.
karadan100 2 years ago
i know more than i care to, dont waste time here you might miss your bus
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
O,Rly?
Proof please.
How many cents out of each tax dollar is spent on the NASA budget?
After that, tell me how many cents out of each tax dollar is spent on the defence department...
I'd love to see your answer.
karadan100 2 years ago
billions
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
trillions
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
gozillions
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
That didn't answer my question... You obviously don't have a clue, so i'll run the figures for you.
less than 0.5% of each tax dollar is given to NASA. That is less than half a cent. Compare that to 22% (22 cents) of each tax dollar which is spent on the defence department (not including black budgets). Why would you hate on NASA so much when so much more money is wasted on gearing up the armed forces? One dept is for the betterment of humanity, the other is for the destruction of it..
karadan100 2 years ago 2
not important 2 meeee
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
LCROSS?
CosmoZorzi 2 years ago
Interesting, and whose hands will that be, the rich bankers? Another corrupt and wasteful government agency? It surely won't be you and I. Besides you don't know how corrupt I am and I don't know who you are. What's corrupt for you? The italian president is supposed to be corrupt too, but people vote for him. People decide, demos cratos, if the majority has decided one thing, well that's tough for the minority.
enoughzenough 2 years ago
Every planet have rings, even Earth.
RajmundShow 2 years ago
hahahahahahaha what a dumb-ass ahahhahahahaah
Joyful9978269 2 years ago
What it's true >.>
RajmundShow 2 years ago
It isn't you idiot, only Jupiter and Saturn does..Omg learn some astronomy you fuck-tard
Joyful9978269 2 years ago
Dude, take some pills, oh and yes I learned, that's why I know every single planet have rings, even if they are very thin, but they have due to their gravity. So yeah... you should learn astronomy.
RajmundShow 2 years ago
That is incorrect.
Only the "Gas" planets have a ring system. Solid bodied planets are exempt from having a ring system.
XmegaPresident 2 years ago
You mean tomorrow, today is the 10th.
moderndayninja5 2 years ago
if i could go see space, but had to die right after, i would do it, definitely...
BboyMattt 2 years ago
That's interesting to think about...How long would it take to see everything? Infinity doesn't even come close lol. Don't think i would do it though. I'd probably do it if I could see VY Canis Majoris and land on it haha. Or a bigger planet...if there is one.
Valtheos 2 years ago
You mean if you were able to physically visit these places? If so I understand ... I would travel the Universe for eternity and never look back, I always wanted to see what Jupiter's core was, visit the center of the Milky way? See how large Alpha centuri is, Red giant Betelguese, and if it's possible to
"walk" on a neutron star ... endless ideas, just think of how many different planets there are..
Jahan917 2 years ago
i didn't exactly mean it like that, i mean even just orbit the earth
BboyMattt 2 years ago
i wish people can live in planet saturn =(
alfina21 2 years ago
Why Saturn when there's VY Canis Majoris or other planets that we know very little about. I guess I'd like to see Saturn too though.
Valtheos 2 years ago
1 ring to rule them all!
owlfood 2 years ago 3
wow so they did get a sitalite all the way over 2 saturn?? :} cool
Deryathecat2 2 years ago 2
Remember that Voyager has already left the solar system!
DogOfTheSpag 2 years ago 4
agreed
xxXWorldFuneralXx 2 years ago
You won't be alive in 20 or 30 millions years.
Freak2121GTAF 2 years ago
wanna bet? xD
geckotwister 2 years ago
ya, i bet 20 bucks on it!
cephyric 2 years ago
Deal! If I die before 20 or 30 million yeras, I owe you 20!
geckotwister 2 years ago
faire enough! yay
cephyric 2 years ago
30 bucks
4youp 2 years a