Mm. Space.

[lyssie]

I'd forgotten how much I adored Nova... But I'm watching the bit they did on Cassini/Huygen. And. Dude. Can I become an astronaut now? Or just a scientist.

*happy* This is the stuff that makes me glee madly. Exploring space, finding out about things like Jupiter's winds and Saturn's rings (also, this episode WINS the music award for having Massive Attack's 'Future Proof' playing while they were testing landing squelches).

And. Dude. Of course Saturn's rings are still forming. One day, centuries from now, they will span millenia.

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[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I saw that episode last Tuesday. I've been wanting to post about it since then, but keep forgetting.

And Titan totally wins the "Fantastic Alien World" award, with its orange sky, rivers (and rain storms) made of methane, "rocks" made of water, and ice volcanoes. And the possibility of life below the surface.

Now I want a fic about an advanced civiliation on the rocky moon of a gas planet; it doesn't matter what format.

[aj.livejournal.com]

EEEEEE!!! Nova! I love science shows! Dammit, I need to watch more of those on the.. y'know. SCIENCE CHANNEL. I should be hooked on that and yet. I am odd, for definite.

*makes a note to watch the Science Channel when she gets home*

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Nova has a website where you can watch whole episodes online, if you have broadband...

[rowan-d.livejournal.com]

...*sigh*... Yes, fellow geeks must unite. Even this POST made me happy.:)

[aj.livejournal.com]

Ooo.

*distracted by shiny toy*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

heheheh. I like that they stressed (in a very no-nonsense tone) that they really only thought there might be microbes eating microbes...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

PBS. damnit.

But, yeah, that might work, too.

Dude. I still have old Novas on tape. *considers watching 'The World Is Full of Oil' again*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*glee*

SPACE. Every so often, my less, er, space-happy friends ask what the point of the space program is, and I then mst control my Fist of Death.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

...omgno. I would never ever ever do anything else.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yes! *dances*

[rowan-d.livejournal.com]

"Have you seen how much Deep Space there is out there?"

Clearly, they just don't understand.:)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

... And that's where so much of the methane was coming from ...

(dum di dum)

Extra-terrestrial farts!!

And a couple of weeks ago, there was another show on PBS (a special, not a series) about the search for life beyond Earth. And there was an interview with an expert in extrenmophiles -- life forms that inhabit "extreme" environments on Earth (like the insides of volcanoes).* And by his extimation, there's as much life, pound for pound, living deep in the crust of our planet as living on the surface. Considering the fact that these are all microbes he's talking about, that's a hellava lot of life.

It would not surprise me at all if some alien biologist came to the conclusion that all life on Earth was microbial...

*Of course, such environments are not extreme at all to the creatures adapted to them...