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You sure the odds are right?

By JP Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 13:33 GMT

Those odds aren't exactly astronomical...

Coat please...

Lies, Damn Lies and Odds

By Conway Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 14:26 GMT

How on earth do they calculate the odds of such things? Is there a department at NASA calculating odds.

Shouldn't this story be under Odds and Sods?

Pendantry

By Steven Knox Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 15:50 GMT

"The craft is due to pass the Moon next March..."

Unless there's a classified experimental engine on that thing, surely it's due to pass the _m_oon next March...

But hey, who named our moon "the Moon" anyway? You'd think they didn't know there were other ones...Oh.

@Pendantry

By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 21:42 GMT

While you're being PEDANTIC, you might want to double check your spelling :)

Pendantry? Is that some sort of science dedicated to the study of necklaces?

Odds

By Chris Morrison Posted Friday 24th August 2007 10:18 GMT

Anyone want a tenner at 500-1 that it crashes?

Prediction: Jets are an Electrical Discharge Which Will Damage Cassini's Electronics

By Phil Hill Posted Friday 24th August 2007 10:36 GMT

I think that these jets are more like an electrical discharge, something like an Aurora, which could damage Cassini's electronics.

Watch this space.........

Electric jets, fountains and plumes

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 24th August 2007 12:51 GMT

They certainly don't look like typical volcanic ejecta. Electrical discharge jets seem to have been suggested by others too, try a Google search for "Jets of Enceladus", and also "Fountains in vacuum: Enceladus"