I have observed Saturn and Jupiter passing behind the moon, I always conjectured the opposite would be much more exciting.

>> ^WKB:

Wow, that animation for Jupiter looked really good. Needs more Saturn though. I wonder if we would even be outside of the radius of the rings or if we would be engulfed.

I don't think so. Saturn itself has a radius of about 60,000km, and the rings (or at least the part we can see) extend for some 120,000km from the surface. At its closest the moon is some 360,000km from Earth. We'd be pretty close though.

Incidentally, to walk all the way around Saturn is almost the same distance from Earth to the Moon. That gives a pretty good idea of scale.

Wow, that animation for Jupiter looked really good. Needs more Saturn though. I wonder if we would even be outside of the radius of the rings or if we would be engulfed.

>> ^CaveBear:

I thought GM would pull out of it so I hung on to my GM stock. Then they went bankrupt and my stock was worthless. Then they offered new stock and made Wall Street guys richer. My stock is still worthless. It's all a Wall Street game of Greed and Lies.
I will never buy any GM product again.


Exactly. In addition, instead of their assets going to someone else who has been doing well, like ford, GM gets the ride free and clear...and the while leaving out all the financial responsibility they owed their previous stock holders. It isn't like all those people would be out of a job anyway, other firms would want to buy up those assets and put them to work, Saturn was on that track till the deal feel through and the government bailed out GM proper. Now, Saturn sits in liability limbo because of the bail out...more toxic waste.

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, sinking deeper. Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone to
Consume you till you choose to let this go.
Choose to let this go.

Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated
anchor.
Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges
into gold.

Let go.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

WTF. It's not as though Hubble zooms through those things. It's just a collection of random images and video from APOD slowly being zoomed in and then getting arbitrarily cut to other completely different images. And what's with the close up of Saturn's rings at the beginning. What image is THAT based off of?
Sorry, don't mean to crap on your video but these are even terrible quality. Here:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0805/carina07_hst_big.jpg
Now THAT's a Hubble image.


Aren't all the images "false color" anyway? Don't they doctor them to MAKE them more colorfully pleasing?

WTF. It's not as though Hubble zooms through those things. It's just a collection of random images and video from APOD slowly being zoomed in and then getting arbitrarily cut to other completely different images. And what's with the close up of Saturn's rings at the beginning. What image is THAT based off of?

Sorry, don't mean to crap on your video but these are even terrible quality. Here:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0805/carina07_hst_big.jpg

Now THAT's a Hubble image.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Duckman33. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Pretty sure this is a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/High-Speed-Saturn-V-Launch-Views

Can you actually dupe this so i can confirm please?

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
This is a dupe of http://videosift.com/video/Apollo-11-launch-in-slow-motion-at-500-fps-HD

If anywhere has good rush, SF would be the place.

Is he playing that on a Sega Saturn emulator? I remember getting something that looked a lot like that trying to play Soul Calibur for the DC on my netbook

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>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Though, fluids don't compress so they don't behave exactly the same, but they are rather similar.

liquids don't compress, gases do. Liquids and gases are fluids in different phases. If you compress a gas enough, or you cool it down enough, most of them will become liquid. And if you lower the pressure or heat up a liquid enough, liquids will turn into a gas! But for the most part their dynamics (the way they move) can be quantified by the same set of rules.

>> ^Mcboinkens:

Not to be ignorant, but I would have thought scientists would have discovered this earlier. Is this the first recorded time that this has been done? I mean, obviously I wouldn't connect jet steams of water with Saturn, but it seems like somewhere someone would have tested this before.
This brings up some other interesting topics. Saturn is referred to as a "gas giant," but would the gasses have the same pattern as water? Also, this pattern is 2 dimensional, essentially on a flat surface. The haxagon on Saturn is probably curved, so I wonder how it is formed. Probably a similar concept, with the center gas rotating faster than the outter gas. But I am a noob in highschool, so I have no idea. If anyone can enlighten me, I'd appreciate it.

Gas is a fluid...water is a fluid. The both fit into fluid-dynamics so they should follow the same pattern. It will work in 3 dimensions as long as you have ring of slower moving fluid with a circle of quicker moving fluid inside of it, I'd imagine. Just so long as there isn't anything going on above or below the pattern that would disrupt the "jet stream".

Oh and about it being "curved"...who knows. Saturn's might be a planar cross-section. Another possibility is it IS curved but the size of the phenomenon compared to its curvature makes the curvature negligible.

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