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    Hot Flashes: 10 Uses For Lightning That Ben Franklin Never Guessed

    Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life

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    Image of Nivair H. Gabriel Nivair H. Gabriel
    11/30/08

    In reply to Hot Flashes: 10 Uses For Lightning That Ben Franklin Never Guessed
    AWESOME, Lizzie. :D
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    12/01/08

    @Nivair H. Gabriel: Thank you! :)
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/30/08

    In reply to Hot Flashes: 10 Uses For Lightning That Ben Franklin Never Guessed
    I thought it was 1.21 gigawatts.


    Also: The Court Jester is a fantastic movie.

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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    11/30/08

    @braak: it is definitely 1.21 gigawatts. the sound of doc brown yelling that used to play every time i received an aol instant message. it is forever burned into my brain. and i still laugh every time i hear it.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    11/30/08

    @braak: D'oh, of course, my mistake. Fixing it now.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/30/08

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: You are forgiven...this time.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/01/08

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom:
    Don't feel bad. Even Christopher Lloyd screwed it up, pronouncing "gigawatts" as if it was spelled "jigawatts".
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/30/08

    In reply to Hot Flashes: 10 Uses For Lightning That Ben Franklin Never Guessed
    The Lois and Clark sequence is so fake. If that had really happened, dude's fingers would have clenched up and he would have fired a bullet into the air, but I never heard a gunshot.


    Anyways, I knew a guy in college who claimed to have been struck by lightning seven times before coming to college (and once more the summer after his freshman year). His nickname was Juice, and there wasn't a lot of question as to whether or not he was telling the truth. He made Doc Brown seem like a down-to-earth, stable sort of guy.

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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/30/08

    @Purple Dave: Oh, hey, I think I saw that guy eating pigeons in the park the other day.


    No, I didn't mean to say "feeding."

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/01/08

    @Smeagol92055:
    No, he was definitely more the mad scientist type, not a drooler.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    10/30/08

    In reply to Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life
    I would like to go to Titan and then light up a cigarette.


    Meirelle, Destroyer of Worlds. ;)

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/30/08

    In reply to Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life
    New from Marie Callender's: Frozen Prebiotic Casserole!
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    10/30/08

    In reply to Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life
    As I'm unlikely to find a better spot, I'd better go ahead and post this here...


    [i87.photobucket.com]

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/30/08

    @Belabras: Very funny, thanks!
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    10/30/08

    In reply to Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life
    Speaking of stunning Saturn Satellite Porn, check it out:


    [www.boston.com]

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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/30/08

    @NotChoinski: FANTASTIC!
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    10/30/08

    @NotChoinski: WHOAAAAAA.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    10/30/08

    @NotChoinski: So, how in the hell can we send a robot to dance around Enceladus and we can't build a refugee trailer in Freakin' NEW ORLEANS without screwing it up at thrice the price?
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    10/30/08

    In reply to Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life
    I was drawn by the Sirens of Titan...
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/30/08

    In reply to Saturn’s Moon Could Hold Spark of Life
    I like Titan...and I'm always happy to see astronomy stuff here on io9...but can we, as a group, define 'Earth Like' and then stick to it? Please?

    Titan is not 'Earth Like'...


    the single feature that is required IMO, is liquid water...otherwise any non-gas giant planet/moon gets called Earth Like...which is silly.

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/30/08

    @goldfarb: celestial bodies that could sustain liquid water would be a better definition.
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    Image of Tzepish Tzepish
    10/30/08

    @goldfarb: I dunno, Titan is basically the most Earth-like known object in the Universe, second only to Earth. Unless you count ancient Mars. If Titan isn't Earth-like, then nothing known is...
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    10/30/08

    @Tzepish: fair point...but shouldn't there really be some kind of criteria?

    when I think 'earth like' I think liquid water, in the 'habitable zone' etc...
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