HOLY CRAP!

[solarbird]

LIQUID WATER FOUND ON MOON OF SATURN.

"Living organisms require liquid water and organic materials, and we know we have both on Enceladus now," [Carolyn Porco, head of the imaging team for the Cassini mission to Saturn] said. "The plumes through which Cassini flew last July contain methane, contain CO₂, propane — they contain several organic materials."

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[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

cooooooooooooooooooooool

[firni.livejournal.com]

That explains where the fuzzy lobster came from.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

This is cool.

As an aside, do you use Firefox? If so, do you have the problem in MSNBC.com pages (including the one you link above) where various random cruft overlays and obscures the text on the page? I do, and I have to cut and paste the text into Notepad to read.

My guess is you use Safari, but if you use Firefox and know how to fix this problem, I'd like to know. If you don't, this is just me whinging.

[solarbird]

I use Safari. ^_^ However, this isn't just you: annathepiper reports the same thing on Frefox. MSNBC has a history of feeding b0rken HTML to non-IE browsers; if you could set Firefox to identify itself entirely and exactly as IE6.0, which it might let you do (Opera does) and see if that works, you'd know it's MSNBC's side and not Firefox's side. This was the workaround for MSNBC sending specifically-broken HTML to Opera users a few years ago.

[annathepiper]

I saw that problem on Firefox, too. Annoying. :( I had to load the msnbc article into IE to be able to read it clearly.

And I don't think it's necessarily something we could fix on our end--I strongly suspect it's a CSS or some other compatibility issue on the server side. Since this is msnbc we're talking about here, it wouldn't surprise me if the page had IE-specific stuff on it.

[firni.livejournal.com]

I didn't have that problem with Firefox.

Then again, I'm using 1.0.7 and I also have AdBlock in the house, so any vile shit they might try to feed me goes bye-bye.

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

And the fun thing is that the water is within tens of meters of the surface- close enough that it would not be that difficult for an unmanned probe to drill into it.

As opposed to Europa. While it also is likely to have liquid oceans, they seem to be at least under tens of kilometers of ice.