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Cassini and the Ku Klux Klan

The Cassini space craft dropped the Huygens space probe onto Titan, one of Saturn's moons. One of the first "raw images" showed "shorelines" and "flooded plains."

"I'm shocked. It's remarkable," said Cassini Imaging Center's Carolyn Porco. "There are river channels. There are channels cut by something ... a fluid of some sort is my best guess."

I suppose that could be true. These pesky scientists have a lot of training, but I have a criticism. Their thinking is restricted to comparisons with what they have seen on Earth and assumptions that things will be the same on some world 3 billion kilometers away (See how I lapsed into the scientific metric jargon?). You see, they lack imagination.

We've seen the famous face on Mars.

And we are all more familiar with the Man in the Moon.

And then I spun the Cassini people's "raw image" around -- after all, what is "up" and "down" in space or on Titan?

It sure looks like a face to me. In fact, it looks like a hooded face to me. It is the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan on Titan!

Okay, conspiracy theorists, go to it!!!!

Posted by Bill at January 15, 2005 10:16 PM