Strongest evidence yet indicates Enceladus hiding saltwater ocean

PhysOrg.com ^ | 06-22-2011 | Provided by University of Colorado at Boulder

[Londo Molari]

“It’s just damn sad that the mankind’s greatest achievment happened nearly 50 years ago...”

Whoa, whoa — obamacare was just passed last year!

[Little Bill]

Book.

[Red Badger]

There is more to Dune than just the first book. There are six books in the original series by author Frank Herbert, and since he died, there are 10 Prequels and sequels to the series. It is perhaps the greatest sci-fi series of all time.

Official website:

http://www.dunenovels.com/

I am also a fan of Issac Asimov and his Foundation series. There is a great resemblance in the two series...............

The movies are not that great, though the 1984 movie captures the look and feel of Dune the best.........

[Little Bill]

I think that Herbert ripped off a stranger in a strange land scenario and then got stranger, GROK!

[Little Bill]

I think that Herbert ripped off a stranger in a strange land scenario and then got stranger, GROK!

[Red Badger]

Stranger in a Strange Land is a good novel, but it's nothing like Dune. SIASL was written in 1961 and Dune in 1965 and won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1966. I don't think they would have awarded it to him if it was a 'rip-off'..............

[Little Bill]

Read it in 1967, care package in Nam, did not like it then and I did not like it when I was gifted it last year and reread it. The man was a one hit wonder, neither a good fantasy or good blend of SF and fantasy, GROK!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks houeto.

• In The Beginning: The Origin of the Oceans by Immanuel Velikovsky

  Of the salts of the seas sodium chloride is by far the most abundant. The provenance of it is, however, a riddle. It was, and still is, assumed that the salts in the oceans originated mainly through importation from land, having been dissolved from rocks by flowing rivulets and rivers, themselves fed by underground sources, and the same process working on the rocks of the seabed. Terrestrial formations are rich in sodium, and in eons of time, it is assumed, the sodium washed out of the rocks supplied its content to the oceans; the seas evaporate and the concentration of these salts grows. But the rocks are by far not so rich in chlorine, and hence the problem—from where did chlorine come to contribute its abundance to oceanic water? There is chlorine in source water, but usually not in significant amounts. The proportion of salts in the rivers is very different from their proportion in the seas.

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[Zuse]

A little different explanation:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/arch11/110425enceladus.htm

and here:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060313moonjets.htm

[TheOldLady]

Why should we be the only ones who have nice, salt-water oceans?