NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System

NPR ^ | October 18, 2009 | unknown

[The Comedian]

And I don't want anyone telling me "there's only one Return, and it ain't of the King, it's of the Jedi."

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Defiant]

I found this interesting:

"It captures an image that looks like what it would be if you were inside of a bubble," Fisher says. "And what it shows is that there is a stripe across the inside of this bubble."

Maybe what they are seeing is a big, universal eye looking in at us. Like this:

[My Favorite Headache]

“We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns.”

Sounds like a liberal to me. Total idiots. Try God for a change...if he wants us to know he will let us know there dipshit.

[Cvengr]

It's amazing what we can find out there.

[My Favorite Headache]

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation We have assumed control. We have assumed control. We have assumed control.

[blam]

LOL...maybe.

[Publius6961]

Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, tells NPR's Guy Raz that this discovery is a big moment for the scientific community. "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."

Maybe someone should pass this nugget of modest wisdom by that phony alpha male, Al (the-issue-is-settled) Bore...

[tlb]

Several years ago it was announced the Voyager spacecraft was slowing as it was reaching the edge of the solar system and deep space. The thinking was the craft was reaching unanticipated resistance as it encountered the streaming solar winds generated by other stars.

Sol generates its own solar winds. It might make sense that as our outward stream meets and neutralizes the incoming stream, there might be a zone formed like a Sargasso Sea around the perimeter of the system. A ring of gas and dust.

[maine-iac7]

Our solar system is encased in a sort of protective layer called the heliosphere, which shields us from harmful cosmic radiation

Well, now, is could be to protect us from outside harm - or it could be protecting the rest of the Super Universe from harm from US...

Kinda like a fence around ones property...It can protect the people within - or without...

I think, were I part of a higher intelligence 'out there' , I'd want a shield between my world and this one!

[Gene Eric]

>> NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System
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>> Fisher: “We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns.”

Has anyone told Fischer the telescope was focused on Obama’s halo.

[scott7278]

Bookmarked.

[beagleone]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.

[GingisK]

If politics is any indication, this new find is similar in every respect to a “ring around the bathtub”.

[razorback-bert]

Guess I am the only one who the read the scifi book, Crystal Speres?

[razorback-bert]

Guess I am the only one who the read the scifi book, Crystal Spheres?

[dfwgator]

In After the Uranus Jokes.

[TChris]

> "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns."

New stuff discovered. More proof that all science is unreliable and wrong!!!!!

No, but often insufferably arrogant.

[Defiant]

Or maybe, just maybe, that ring is just the setting that holds our galaxy in place on the collar of a giant cat that roams around on a much larger planet in another galaxy.

[Captain Beyond]

LOL! Good one :) Rush 2112 one of there best.