Cassini to graze Saturn moon's plumes

[Basicpiviot]

Finding that balance is impossible with capitalisim. We need to rethink society in general. it will not do to have a profit based economy, we need to utilize our technology to automate all we can, and get rid of human labor.

[JuniorDExchangecore]

Well... not really. Slaughtering would be best, because then we could reuse the nice soil. :P

[Kenzofeis]

The population capacity of humans are extreme.

We don't mate only once or twice every year but are capable of reproducing by way of chainreaction by a factor much larger than 2x at every step.

Example: if every fly-egg survived into a grown fly, the earth would be covered by a 2m thick layer of flies in one year.

What is needed is to take religions (and some cultures/views/power-money-bro­kers) by their ears and make people understand that higher survival rates neseccitates lower birthrates..

[Kenzofeis]

My post here now will as everything else vanish in time in all the violent vortexes of utterings from all around.

But, humans expaning their habitats onto other planets will only bring the same problems there. It's like repeat but no real rinse. It will not remove the problems we already sit in.

It's an old instinct of leaving a troubled area to try and find something better - but as shown so many times, problems reoccur.

Humans are like bacteria - only a few thereof is good.

[Mittau]

I hate having to insert sarcasm tags on all my humour, it ruins the effect. But for your benefit, I was being sarcastic.

[DJNitty]

wow ice cubes in space...and ... people are still hungry on Earth...

[RyanB0011]

So? Thats a job for charities. Not NASA.

[RyanB0011]

Oh and you sir are too dull to realize that exploration of space can help us here on Earth.

[DJNitty]

:D really cant wait something from space help us win cancer/AIDS, hunger, bad economy, wars, pollution...uh yeah... xD we surely got time.. lalalalallaa.. xD.... VOYAGER, EARTH PPL TO BEAM UP!!!

[Mittau]

Yeah we should totally just concentrate all our attention on terrestrial problems and forget space exploration altogether. Its not like exploring a new place just to see what is there has ever yielded positive results for the exploring nation/organization as a whole...

Just imagine we could all be living in caves unaware of the complexity of the world around us, believing cancer, aids and all the other terrible things in the world are divine punishments or whatever.

[DJNitty]

Everything is more simple then human. He is most complex being ever made. We cant settle many stuff we done.We are still unaware... of ourselves. Im not against exploration of space...but i think for this part of time... we got more real stuff to care about. And they are sooner getting faster then we are, every wasted second. Where we will put knowledge if we are gone 1 day bcos we were too much watching in sky and less in front of our feet. What will happen to knowledge about space then?

[Volodus]

Imagin asteroid on it way to the earth. In 20 years it will hit earth and destroy evrything on it. In that case, all other problems (like polution, wars, starving, HIV, cancer) are unimportant.

[ikapacho]

It's funny DJ, if we were to completely halt space programs and apply all our scientific power to solving the most prevalent world problems and "help us win cancer/AIDS, hunger, bad economy, wars, pollution...", We could theoretically create an even larger problem that would eventually lead to our destruction.

[ikapacho]

This problem is of course, Overpopulation. I understand that we're a very long way from catastrophic overpopulation but if we were to suddenly cure all the fix all the world's problems, the death-rate would drop so drastically that we'd see a huge spike in Population growth. At a certain point the earth's resources will fail to be able to support the massive amount of human beings.

This will cause war and likely promote the spread of new/mutated disease strains.

Further, it will cause famine.

[ikapacho]

The space program offers us an opportunity for colonization and places to send our people, assuming we ever find a planet with an atmosphere that will allow us to terraform its surface.

[ItLingersAgain]

ikapacho is pretty clever!

[Craft2299]

Overpapulation isnt very mutch of a problem now, but as u sayd there will be "other" places wel find. god hope not the moon. we need that. not ruined.

[Basicpiviot]

@Craft 2299 there is nothing on the moon, not even special minerals since the moon is made out of the same materials as the earth. its a barren wasteland... its Mars or bust!

[JuniorDExchangecore]

@ Basicpiviot. Yes, but there is some speculation that due to its proximity to Saturn, that the water inside could be warm enough (due to constant spinning) to support life. It might also begin to develop a atmosphere with all the moisture spewing out as well, and if it is dense enough, it might produce some extra heat that we could perhaps live on.

[alkofly]

today!

[ArthBHx]

Mint!

[PolliFaxToaster]

effing brilliant! i'll be sure to have a brew for cassini. btw, im glad to see the quality of your videos is improving... did you hire a new editor? :P

[DamienZshadow]

beautiful, just like Europa! I can't wait to see what this fly by will reveal

[pchcruzer]

what there not going to take picture to.. they should take pictures while they are there!!!

[S1ndr0m3]

Hopefully The scientist remember that the altitude and speed measurements are metric and don't accidentally put in figures for feet. Remember mars?

[sonata1992]

How exciting! I didn't think they'd be able to do anymore research on Enceladus with Cassini. Great stuff = )

[aquamammal]

You know, our solar system has a lot of shitte that is interesting in itself.

I wonder if it's like this is every solar system.

[Keylimedelight]

First Bitches!! (damn im a moron)

[gnamp]

Bob "George Bush Sr." Mitchell knows what's what. (see 1:15)

[myfriendisalvl2elf]

nice thats awesome.