Comments on: Dione’s atlas shrugged

By: Just in case you need reminding how nice a place to live Earth is. | Bad Astronomy | FEEDER

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:00:23 +0000

[...] Dione’s Atlas shrugged – Incredible quadruple transit on Saturn! – An otherwordly eclipse – Helene of Saturnian [...]

By: The Dione Atlas | geo2web.com

The Dione Atlas | geo2web.com — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:12:45 +0000

[...] moon Dione. The atlas is available as a set of 15 PDF files at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Via Bad Astronomy and Universe Today. This is the third atlas of a Saturnian moon that has been released by the [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:39:25 +0000

You’re forgetting the chance to witness the all day race… when superatheletes circumnavigate the moon doing ~8 minute km to keep the sun at the horizon.

By: wintremute

wintremute — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:09:24 +0000

BA can remember it for you wholesale.

By: Dione « Pasa la vida

Dione « Pasa la vida — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:13:55 +0000

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By: LafinJack

LafinJack — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:41:50 +0000

It’s odd, when I first saw the map above I thought it was some kind of wind chart or other odd vector map of Earth. My pareodilia lobe sees North America in the upper left, a less-clear South America below it, the yawning Atlantic in the middle of the image, a sort-of Africa/Europe/Asia/Philippines blob east of that, with Australia MIA. The 2D stretching of the poles made me think of the Arctic and Antarctic.

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:42:56 +0000

But I elected President Scroob… oh… Spaceball City was somewhere else!

By: Rahne

Rahne — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:20:14 +0000

This is of course after Ron Popeil invented the technology to keep heads alive in jars, and now they’re running for president.

Well, at least it isn’t Nixon!

By: Jason Perry

Jason Perry — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:11:34 +0000

But then again, if your goal is to provide busy work for the kids, then that might be a good project

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:07:07 +0000

Jason Perry, wow. I checked the latitude but not the longitude! If 0 degrees longitude is defined as the Saturn facing meridian, then you’re right. Mezentius is at almost exactly 180 degrees.

Oops.

By: Jason Perry

Jason Perry — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:39:06 +0000

If you can spot the edge on rings from Mezentius, that you definitely deserve a cookie!!! Considering the fact that Mezentius is smack dab in the middle of the anti-Saturn hemisphere so you wouldn’t be able to see the rings from there.

By: shane

shane — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:29:07 +0000

Of course President Spears. After President Jenna Bush* was impeached the whole family values thing came back into vogue.

*Ironically Jenna Bush replaced Jenna Jameson who was rumoured to have corrupted an intern in the Oval Office.

By: Fauxnetikz

Fauxnetikz — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:10:34 +0000

I don’t check the site often enough to reply within 30 seconds!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:03:23 +0000

President … Spears?!

/me throws self into the Eurotas Chasmata

By: Jim Shaver

Jim Shaver — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:44:52 +0000

Dione’s nice and all, sure. But with Xenon prices soon to top CR4 per liter, it’s gonna cost a working man two weeks’ compensation just getting there and back, more if he’s still driving on first-gen ion thrusters. Sheesh. Some things never change.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:01:50 +0000

Not since ‘Battlefield Earth’ have I be submitted to technobabble so contrived.

Thanks for that, Phil .

By: the great and powerful oz

the great and powerful oz — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:21:13 +0000

Version 3.1.416, surely?

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:11:57 +0000

Dione sucks! Go Titan, and it’s team, the Titan City er… Titans! They may be only 14% as strong as an equivalent earth team, thus requiring a wheelchair for the super bowl, but they sure can throw the ball!

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:15:00 +0000

We’ve been round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares malestrom and round perdition’s flames. When do we give up and go home?

By: Quatguy

Quatguy — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:38:39 +0000

I still can’t believe that that Spears was re-E-appointed by the Presidential Appointment Commission the over Obama the XIVth. What a rip off.

By: ioresult

ioresult — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:36:43 +0000

I’m not looking forward to 2116 when a simple public download will cost 50 Credits!

By: decius

decius — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:36:22 +0000

Has Hoagland already found some alien activity, or has NASA finally learnt how to doctor its pictures effectively?

By: chimango

chimango — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:22:40 +0000

AAARGHHH!!! you left the jingle turned on! make it stop!

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:15:06 +0000

I see BrainStack® appears to be an heir of Latex (I refuse to adhere to silly personal preferences about orthography. Take that, Bell Hooks).

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:54:09 +0000

Mmmm, now I’ve got pi on the BrainStack.