28 Jan 2015 - Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind

[NASA]

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48722)28 Jan 2015 - Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind
Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the solar wind. The observations suggest that unmagnetized bodies ...


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[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Larry Niven once wrote, "it's dangerous until you understand it" and "I told you so".

quotes taken from the amazing short story FLATLANDER,
where Gregory Pelton and his offworlder friend hitch a ride to the outer edge of the galaxy,
where they encounter a star system unlike any other -- the "fast proto sun" and its dark planet,
passing through the plane of the galaxy in a harrowing dive.

Unknown to the two astronauts, the radiation from their own galaxy is in normal order,
but its interaction with the anti-matter of which the proto-sun and its accompanying planet are made have disastrous local consequences.


Of course, to our knowledge, anti matter does not exist in significant amounts in our galaxy,
but truth is always stranger than fiction.

:P

It's amazing that we have a real-time thing to watch, where we get to see what happens to a habitable world when only briefly it exits the envelope of survivability.

!_! gulp

p.s. catch 22 indeed.