tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post114721825427830508..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: The Descent of Huygens Onto TitanPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1147293706138368142006-05-10T13:41:00.000-07:002006-05-10T13:41:00.000-07:00Huygens. Dutch name? I've always liked trying to r...<I>Huygens. Dutch name? I've always liked trying to read dutch, and elide those "uyg" combinations. </I><BR/><BR/>Yeah. He did some important early work on light, and timekeeping. And probably some other stuff I'm forgetting...optics, maybe?<BR/><BR/><I> The strange music didn't reach my terrestrial heart however. C'est la vie!</I><BR/><BR/>I love it, personally. But then, I was listening obsessively to shortwave static when a lot of my school chums were "getting down" to the Steve Miller Band. It's one of the things that made me so popular as a lad.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1147292097154554932006-05-10T13:14:00.000-07:002006-05-10T13:14:00.000-07:00Amazing footage. The sound is just lovely. I recen...Amazing footage. The sound is just lovely. I recently bought a Meade telescope and recommend the pursuit. I look at Jupiter and its charming moons and I can look at Saturn and see the rings through a dirty window and dirty atmosphere! I can't wait to get it out in better conditions. It's a real treat spying on 'the wanderers'. In the 1970’s when people could study Jupiter’s moon Io more closely we learned that the earth was not unique, not alone - Io is also geologically active, just like the earth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1147282606332710412006-05-10T10:36:00.000-07:002006-05-10T10:36:00.000-07:00Speechless, Is Huygens a probe, and Titan one of J...Speechless, <BR/><BR/><I>Is Huygens a probe, and Titan one of Jupiter's moons? </I><BR/><BR/>Yep. <A HREF="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia08117.html" REL="nofollow">Here's a page</A> that explains the sounds.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1147273682781364122006-05-10T08:08:00.000-07:002006-05-10T08:08:00.000-07:00One of the coolest things I have seen in a long, l...One of the coolest things I have seen in a long, long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1147218892499516152006-05-09T16:54:00.000-07:002006-05-09T16:54:00.000-07:00Cooooool.Cooooool.ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.com