Nature Really Is Screwed Up Sometimes

I would love to hear about the brilliance of the "Intelligent Designer" after viewing pics of these "pearls of his engineering"

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Cassini's new views of Saturn

One of my long term interest has been astronomy. I blame Carl Sagan and the Cosmos series on PBS for the additional expenses I have incurred in telescopes and time freezing my butt off trying to get a good look at the Orion Nebula.

Enough about me and my freezing posterior. The Cassini-Huygens mission has been returning some amazing and unusual views of the ringed planet. The one below is a close up view revealing cloud structure and in the upper center of the photo is the moon Dionne. The black encircling Saturn's clouds are shadows from the rings. More spectacular views are available at the CICLOPS and from NASA/ JPL's Saturn mission websites.

Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory For Operations

Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below.

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OH PLEASE!!!

Pharyngula brought this piece of idiocy to my attention. Here is a sample:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

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Lordy I Loves Me Some Pharyngula

The exceptional Pharyngula, part of Science Blogs, posted this recently. I am not sure if this is better living through science but it sure is damn funny!



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