That, or the moon where Dave Lister woke up from his pub crawl in “Red Dwarf.”

Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll have a look at those. I really have to sort this out in the near future, been putting this off long enough.

May I suggest the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license? That allows people to redistribute your work without having to ask you for permission, as long as they credit you (BY), it is not for commercial use (NC) and they redistribute it under the same license (SA – “Share Alike”).

That license allows people to create derivative works based on yours (under the conditions mentioned). If you don’t want that you could go for the BY-NC-ND license, which only allows redistribution of unmodified copies.

In essence, the proper license I’d like to have picked from that forrest of suggested licenses is one where my work is freely redistributable provided I get credited (for Cassini images since they comprise the vast majority of the gallery, instead of adding the credit to every single image I put it into my profile page). A link back to the gallery would also be nice, but not mandatory. What I *don’t* want is this work being used to make money by someone without my explicit agreement. I don’t do this to make money, this is an effort of love and the more people get to see these images, the better IMHO.

“I would not have though processing the image data and cropping the image counts as creating a derivative work, it’s still basically redistributing the image as provided by NASA.”

No offense, but have you actually done work with any raw PDS data, developed your own software for calibrating the images and put the effort to composite, clean up and color-balance the images? If it is as simple as “redistributing the image as provided by NASA”, why isn’t Cassini imaging team releasing more color images than the sporadic few they do?

It’s not important, I was just curious.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/copyrights.cfm#copyright

Should answer your question.

What’s not to like?

Oh, wait. Yeah …. unrelenting comic relief with little substance or style behind it…. yup, OK, got it.

Maybe the Ewoks were the precursor to JJB in TPM.

Even Mark Hamill all dressed in yummy black couldn’t make up for that.

//geek prime

2.66 real SW movies?

I guess RotJ was the 0.66, but why? It had everything – 3PO being ineffectual and fussy, R2 being the little stalwart (serving drinks!), Leia throttling Jabba (and, if you read the book, using the Force for the first time), Luke becoming more powerful than you can possibly imagine (or was that someone else?), lasers, gunfights, witty remarks from Han (or “hun” as they all seem to call him – short for “honey”, I guess), and teddy bears taking on Imperial troops. Oh, plus the evil empire showing how lax their security procedures are (it’s an old code, sir, but it checks out. I was going to let them through”). And Vader turning all blue and glowy at the end, just like Ben and Yoda.

@ 29: Ha!

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. I, and the 2.66 REAL Star Wars movies.

@ Robin:

Splutter! Sput! Kaff! Master Luke could whup Kirk six sides to Tuesday. And he’s way cuter, too! Well, at least he was. I’ll grant you the whiney bit, though.

Y’all need to face your fears.

Hmm.. It’s probably just an effect of perspective but Titan makes the planet Alderaan look tiny by comparison! Which is apt when you think about it.

@16. Eugene Says:

Out of curiosity, I looked up info on Tethys, this second Death Star pretender, and found this: “The impact scar spans more than two-fifths of the satellite with a diameter slightly larger than Saturn’s moon Mimas.”
Good god. It doesn’t just out-do Mimas, it *swallows* it!

I didn’t know that neat fact before. Thanks.

@12. Brian Fies :

Important trivia question: What’s the internal body temperature of a Tauntaun? A: Lukewarm.

I LOL’d! Classic.

As for the prequels folks have mentioned, I will admit at least the last one was kind of good. The other two had their moments. No way in Mustafar they were near the original trilogy of course but still.

* The first person to leave a comment saying “That’s no moon” will get a light saber up their Tauntaun.

But ..but .. I don’t have a tauntaun!

So that one is officially too old now? Sigh. I liked that tradition. Oh well.

Can we still use “My God! Its full of stars!” when appropriate?

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27058/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-08

,,,and anti-proton radiation belt, to deflect Dark Stars weapon,,,

Gary

I thought Star Wars was out of fashion since the prequels?

The what, now? Prequels? Were there some kind of movies made after Return of the Jedi? (Well, after 2/3′s of Return of the Jedi…)

Help! Help! I’m bein’ repressed!

You haven’t been down the lego isle have you? Or the action figure isle, or the…

And I really don’t remember the prequels, I think I blocked them from my memory.

Of course I’m an old fart and saw the original in ’77 in the theater. No “Episode IV” and I’m not sure but I don’t recall a “New Hope” before the scrawl. And Grand Moth Tarken was the real bad guy, made Vader look like a wimp. Hence the line “I knew some one must be holding Vader’s leash”

Lukas may claim he had it all planned out from the beginning, but it must have been on the back of an envelope.

What prequels?

These are not the prequels you are looking for.

“The image is very close to natural color, so this is approximately what you would see if you were there (shortly before freezing and asphyxiating, but what a way to go). ”

Balderdash! You think I’d visit the moons of Saturn without hitching a ride on Discovery? (HAL optional)