Scientists find new enourmous ring around Saturn

[BasketSnake]

I will NOT ever forget what my grandma said years back. Must be ten years or something but I remember when she told me how a lady she knew had seen a disc craft land. Two people in astronaut suits coming out to pick strawberries and then they took off. This was the last thing I expected her to mention. Make of it what you will but I know where she lived and the surrounding small town and the people living there. You begin to wonder.

[Syroc]

Well, those must have been some smart martians. Strawberries would definitly be somewhere near the top of my "Resources to extract from barbaric planet" List.

[Teebonesy]

I will NOT ever forget what my grandma said years back. Must be ten years or something but I remember when she told me how a lady she knew had seen a disc craft land. Two people in astronaut suits coming out to pick strawberries and then they took off. This was the last thing I expected her to mention. Make of it what you will but I know where she lived and the surrounding small town and the people living there. You begin to wonder.

You DO begin to wonder! What are they injecting those strawberries with?
ZING!

But seriously, this is pretty cool - the article mentions that it's "tenuous" - I wonder what that really means - is it short-lived? Has it been there all this time we've been gazing at the stars, and we just never saw it? Is it a new ring? And what does Uranus think of all this?

[Syroc]

Means it's hard to see because it's made up of teeny tiny dust particles. It might have been there forever for all they know and for all I know the dust in my flat might be part of a huge rotating circle as well. No matter how often I clean it the dust always returns.

[BSprague]

Why would we though? We've been there, done that, found what there is to find (to the best of our knowledge) and are now looking on to further projects no doubt. A lot of interest is in Mars it seems over the last few years. Would be awesome if it became possible to get people there and back. But with our technology... doesn't seem too possible.

Well, we did find trace amounts of water on the moon just months ago.

[Rabid-Coot]

ok, it's cool they found it and all... But what point is there for us knowing it? What do we gain from spending time finding this, instead of devoting time to other things?

knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

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[Jagrevi]

knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

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From the voice of LBP himself no-less

[Kern•]

oh thats magical.... *man again* those rings better stay away from my daughter *shakes fist*

[Dexiro]

Yes, in 1969 but right now we don't have a single space ship that can get humans to moon and back.

Of course we do, we've had like 16-17 people go to the moon since 1969!

Or are you thinking of a more commercial thing?

[Syroc]

I'm thinking of right now, the year 2009.

[BasketSnake]

Aliens landing to inject strawberries to grow them into deformed living giants...sounds about right XD

[Astrosimi]

That thing has to be about as big as the circumference of the sun.

These things are what lead me to get into astronomy. We just found a ring we couldn't find 10 years ago.

[Admiral]

Man I can't wait till next year, big freshmen on College campus and I really wanna work with Physics and Astronomy. I'm gonna have to get the basics done, but I reallyyyyy wanna work at NASA and this is a prime example as to why. I wanna be able to say "Yeah, I was part of the team that discovered such and such" or something.

[thefrozenpenquin]

There is always an reason to explore, where would we be with out Columbus? Sorry 'cross the ponders. I can't even watch science shows anymore because we discover things so rapidly now that a program from last year is completely off from what we know now. We can drop people off on the moon like it's a bus stop nowadays, but we are aiming a bit farther. We are going to see Pluto soon! If I could've been one thing I would be an astronaut. I do agree though that it was a huge fail for NASA. We can see new planets rotating around stars millions and billions of light years away but we can't see a gigantic ring around a planet that is relatively close.
Btw, AOTS usually covers this stuff as it happens, like the moon impact thing. Only 4 minutes to research the plume of dust, no pressure lol.