Australian Politics Forum - Goodbye Cassini

Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 46471 Gender:	Goodbye Cassini Sep 17^th, 2017 at 12:29am Well its been mighty swell watching all your photos over the many many years of your voyage around Saturn.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #1 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 9:10am Yep another magnificent feat of technology and exploration. Columbus, Cook, Vasco de Gama etc will be looking down and applauding.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95263 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #2 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 9:34am Fantastic mission - 650 G Bytes of data.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #3 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 9:37am lets hope it will lead to a cure for cancer or MS or motor neuron
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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #4 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 5:35pm Oh look a selfie.... how did it do that? I'm looking forward to images from the final entry.
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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #5 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 5:41pm https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/internal_resources/628/ Has anyone explained how or why there is a hexagonal shape at the pole?
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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #6 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 5:44pm
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 46471 Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #7 - Sep 17^th, 2017 at 7:46pm A lot of strange things out there.
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 46471 Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #8 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 5:49am Here's a neat perspective. In a way, Cassini did bring Saturn a lot closer to us.
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Marla Gold Member Offline I really hate you Posts: 12821 Colorado Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #9 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 5:55am Yes, goodbye you useless taxpayer funded capitalist piece of poo.
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Marla Gold Member Offline I really hate you Posts: 12821 Colorado Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #10 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 5:57am Grendel wrote on Sep 17^th, 2017 at 5:41pm: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/internal_resources/628/ Has anyone explained how or why there is a hexagonal shape at the pole? Ask Paul Weller.
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Reply #11 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 10:02am

Grendel wrote on Sep 17^th, 2017 at 5:41pm:

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/internal_resources/628/

Has anyone explained how or why there is a hexagonal shape at the pole?

Yep it seems to be a consequence of the high winds. Saturns unusual in having latitiudinal gradients in wind rather than longitudinal ones.

The centre rotates at a different speed to the periphery. They've recreated in a lab and you get patterns of triangles up to octagons, but hexagons seem to be the most common.

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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)

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Reply #12 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 10:02am

I'm a fan of Weller/Style Council. But man hasn't he aged like a dirty ashtray.

Aww - come on Marla, don't be like that. Those images are a breath of fresh air compared to the usual crap on the News, let alone the latest Music Video.

You seem stressed. You need to come to Oz and really learn to 'chill out' on a nice sunny white sanded beach while getting paid by the Government to do nothing but enjoy yourself (Gotta love those British Wink

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Reply #13 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 10:04am

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 10:02am:

Grendel wrote on Sep 17^th, 2017 at 5:41pm:

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/internal_resources/628/

Has anyone explained how or why there is a hexagonal shape at the pole?

Yep it seems to be a consequence of the high winds. Saturns unusual in having latitiudinal gradients in wind rather than longitudinal ones.

The centre rotates at a different speed to the periphery. They've recreated in a lab and you get patterns of triangles up to octagons, but hexagons seem to be the most common.

Thanks Bojack. That was very informative. I was afraid It_Is_The_Light was going to tell me it was a Crop Circle.

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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Goodbye Cassini Reply #14 - Sep 22^nd, 2017 at 10:06am Thats science, bitch.
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