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Old January 1st 05, 04:08 AM
richard schumacher
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Default What's up with those mountains on Iapetus?

That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522
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Old January 1st 05, 01:34 PM
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Sure does. Almost like a moulding line on a model kit


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Old January 1st 05, 04:03 PM
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you meant

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...iImageID=29522




richard schumacher wrote:
That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522

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Old January 3rd 05, 02:59 AM
richard schumacher
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In article ,
paul v birke wrote:

you meant

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...tails.cfm?feiI
mageID=29522




richard schumacher wrote:
That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522


Yes! Thanks. Anybody know how to make MT-Newswatcher not insert line
breaks?
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Old January 3rd 05, 10:17 AM
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In article ,
richard schumacher wrote:

That smooth unbroken continuous hill just looks weird. See for example
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...-details.cfm?f
eiImageID=29522


Some proposed explanations:

10. The moon was actually injection-molded.
9. The hill is the remains of an ancient alien rail-gun launcher.
8. Iapetus, in a fit of sibling jealousy, has attempted to grow its own
rings.
7. Percival Lowell accidentally based his sketches on the wrong planet.
6. This is the planet from Kim Stanley Robinson's "A Short, Sharp
Shock", without the oceans.
5. The moon was tectonically separated aeons ago from Vallis Marineris.
4. This is the solar system's frenulum.
3. Ringworld deorbited here.
2. Not much, just loosening its belt after the holidays.

and..

1. That's No Moon...

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Old January 5th 05, 02:22 AM
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Yes! Thanks. Anybody know how to make MT-Newswatcher not insert line
breaks?


plug it into
http://makeashorterlink.com/

ya get

Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2A82392A

Best cure I know of


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Old January 6th 05, 09:35 AM
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In article ,
Aardvark wrote:

Yes! Thanks. Anybody know how to make MT-Newswatcher not insert line
breaks?


plug it into
http://makeashorterlink.com/

ya get

Your shorter link is: http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2A82392A

Best cure I know of


Nah -- there's an even better cu plug it into tinyurl.com which produces:

http://tinyurl.com/42w65

That link is only a little more than half as long as your link... :-) ...and
in addition it transfers directly to the real target link instead of pausing
for a few seconds at the link transfer site....



...and if you think those links get a bit too short, pass them to http://hugeurl.com
which in this case will produce:

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Old January 7th 05, 01:19 AM
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In sci.space.science Ben Weiss wrote:
1. That's No Moon...


... it is a giant walnut

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