This Week’s Whine
“I deserve this.” Gain familiarity with the type of thing you can see in the Top Lines As Rated By the Coolometer.
Trivia Hit
The potential subglacial lake recently detected beneath Mars’s south polar ice cap is believed to remain liquid below water’s normal freezing point due to its:
a.
Pressure
b.
Density
c.
Depth
d.
Salinity
Munerically Speaking
«1.5, 20, 205, 10,000,000»
Equal to the estimated diameter [in kilometres] of a possible subglacial lake of liquid water detected from the Mars Express spacecraft, the depth [in kilometres] beneath Mars’s south polar ice cap at which the lake is believed to exist, the estimated volume [in cubic metres] of the lake, and the estimated temperature [in kelvins] of the lake.
Quoteboard
“Encounters with Neptune are frequent, and Triton just happened to come in slow enough. Leading theories are that Triton was a binary, and one half escaped.”
– Matija Ćuk, research scientist, SETI Institute, on Triton’s possible origin as a Kuiper Belt object
SOURCE: Discover
PLEASE SEND ALL INCOHERENT RANTS TO <GOOBNET@GOOBNET.NET>
© 2023 GOOBNET ENTERPRISES, INC [WHICH DOESN’T ACTUALLY EXIST HOWEVER]
THIS FILE ACCURATE AS OF: TUE 21 FEB 2023 – 06:09:00 UTC · GENERATED IN 0.004 SECONDS
