Thursday, April 3, 2014

"It's Full of Water!"

If you don't recognize this line as a parody of a line from 2001 -- it's time to go re-read it.  From March 3, 2014 New York Times:
Inside a moon of Saturn, beneath its icy veneer and above its rocky core, is a sea of water the size of Lake Superior, scientists announced on Thursday.
The findings, published in the journal Science, confirm what planetary scientists have suspected about the moon, Enceladus, ever since they were astonished in 2005 by photographs showing geysers of ice crystals shooting out of its south pole.
“What we’ve done is put forth a strong case for an ocean,” said David J. Stevenson, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology and an author of the Science paper.

1 comment:

  1. http://books.google.com/books?id=mc4qAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT234

    works just as well as

    http://books.google.com/books?id=mc4qAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT234&dq=2001+%22It%27s+full+of+stars%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HKg9U7KSNerAyAGX_4GwAg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=2001%20%22It%27s%20full%20of%20stars%22&f=false

    and is 158 characters shorter.

    This has been a PSA from the Society for Decrufting URLs.

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