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But that looks like a space needle. Like if the Washington Monument was really a spaceship that the US shoots into space to check things out when no one's looking...
04/18/09
Shhh! You'll alert the Chinese!
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Nah, everyone knows what that the true purpose of the Lincoln Memorial is purely artistic in nature. After all, the two most important things to remember about surrealism are frogs, power tools, and the Lincoln Memorial.
04/18/09
Seriously, I always thought the rings were made up of dust or pebble-sized rocks at best - turns out they're practically moons in their own right.
04/18/09
Well...it depends on which rings you're talking about, and what you consider to be a moon. The rings on the very inside and outside of the ring system are indeed composed primarily of dust and small ice crystals. The center three "main" rings contain larger chunks, but the thickest part of the rings maxes out at about 100 feet. That is, the thickest part if you don't count stuff like the "shepherd" moons (several moons of Saturn that actually pass within or between the rings), or what are estimated to be thousands of tiny moonlets. The latter is likely what's causing that dark spoke to appear.