Posted on 06/23/2014 7:18:31 AM PDT by lbryce
A mysteriously bright anomaly winked in and out of existence on the seas of Saturn's largest moon, Titan — potentially the first time waves, bubbles or some other unknown features have been seen there, scientists say.
Scientists usually call this spot a "transient feature," but the researchers have playfully dubbed it "Magic Island." Titan, the largest of Saturn's 62 known moons, is 50 percent wider than Earth's moon and 80 percent more massive.
"What I think is really special about Titan is that it has liquid methane and ethane lakes and seas, making it the only other world in the solar system that has stable liquids on its surfaces," lead study author Jason Hofgartner, a planetary scientist at Cornell University,told Space.com. "It not only has lakes and seas, but also rivers and even rain. It has what we call a hydrological cycle, and we can study it as an analog to Earth's hydrological cycle — and it's the only other place we know of where we can do that." [Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, Explained (Infographic)]
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Now, ecstatically I can say there is a 'Magic Island' on Titan because of the the irrefutable scientific phenomenon known as "winking" that when observed is irrevocably linked to "magic". a very scientific principle. Talk about your oxymorons. "Science" working together with a very inexact description of winking to bring science's doppleganger, "magic" to life.
If there are unicorns there can we send the 47 % there or at least the less than 3% homo population that’s making life hell for the rest of us?
I give your post a big ‘Thumbs Down’.
I think it was from the Sirens of Titan
Why is that?
If only we had kept up a vigorous and aggressive space program instead of welfare votes, bogus weather crises, and muzzie feel good schemes, we would know about this from a manned ship or station in the vicinity.
Winking is simply a non technical term for flipping between two photos to find changes. The human eye is particularly good at it and has been used in astronomy for as long as there has been space imaging.
Video of the before and after photos of the island’s appearance.
I did not know that. Thank you. I also didn’t know that it was an act of magic.
From what I see, the light changed and simply illuminated more of the surface. A lot more was visible when the light became brighter.
Yeah the angle of the light is definitely different. It could be a very low island that wasn’t picked up in the first photo or it could be a new island formed by some unknown process. For that matter it could be an iceberg of some sort.
Bull crap!
What? I’ve seen your comments and they usually make a lot of sense. What Bullcrap? What are you talking about? Did you just have some mental breakdown or something? I’ve come to realize that you’re some sort of mental patient who gets to use the internet at the asylum based on good behavior.
These are the folks whom after observing a star 100 million light years from Earth being temporarily blocked by what is hypothesized to be an orbiting planet, will after making a few hasty calculations determine that its Earth sized, may, I said may, have oceans on the surface with thick Amazonian Jungles but then again it may not because they can't see any surface objects on the planet being too far away with the term goldilocks invariably being mentioned.
Link to a source for that claim please.
The way they discover exo-planets is by observing how long the the light of a distant star is obscured by some seeming orbiting planet. I would ordinarily send a link to a story like that but why make you look even stupider than you already are by sending you the article I quoted that you mocked like the dimwit you are?
Link please.
Where’s the link?
*SNIP*
...an Earth cousin that just might have liquid water but then again it just might NOT have liquid water.
This is standard modus operandi for all discoveries of exoplanets that make it sound as if there's some idyllic Eden out there, as if we could just hop on the latest warp drive vehicle and get there in no time. This planet has been reported to be orbiting a star 100 million light years from Earth.
In our own solar system there are only two worlds that have liquid oceans on its surface, the Earth, its oceans composed of liquid water and Titan, with liquid methane. Other worlds are simply much too far away to make any determination as to what exists on the surface of any exoplanet.
Suffice to say, to make any statement on what exists on the surface of any planet without direct evidence is worse than mere conjecture. There is absolutely no scientific basis to mention the possibility of liquid water being present on this newly discovered Earth-sized planet. To make such assumptions is not only egregiously irresponsible but is conjecture, anti-science at its worst, discussed on the basis merely for taking flights of fancy.
Found! First Earth-Size Planet That Could Support Life
http://www.space.com/25530-earthsize-exoplanet-kepler-186f-habitable-discovery.html
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