Saturn moon falsifies atheism
The properties of one of Saturn’s moons may ring the death-knell for atheism, NASA/JPL announced today. Astronomer Gerhard Baalschmidt was routinely scanning the files of the hundreds of small orbiting objects imaged by the Cassini-Huygens space probe when he came across a newly-identified moon that caught his attention.
The small moon, known as S/2005-S3.14, can seen in this image below the rings of Saturn. The other moon in the picture is Enceladus, which is many thousands of times larger than S/2005-S3.14, but is much further from Cassini’s camera. The odd shape of the moon made Dr Baalschmidt’s look closer.
“I sent the photo to our image processing people, and they tightened up the picture,” said Dr Baalschmidt. “The first I knew about, the head of the department was calling me to ask what sort of a stunt I was trying to pull. It was really hard to convince him that the data was raw. He wouldn’t believe me until he pulled the original file for himself and reprocessed the image from scratch.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” said Dr Baalschmidt. “I’d read Bertrand Russell rejecting God for the same reason he rejects teapots orbiting Saturn. And yet, there it is. Right there.” He jabbed his finger at the screen. “You should see it magnified. It’s amazing.”
The image has not been released until now to give time to verify the extraordinary finding. “The guys at the European Space Agency were skeptical,” said Baalschmidt. “They were convinced it was a mistake, then a joke, and when that was ruled out they grilled the old NASA teams responsible for the Voyager and Pioneer missions to see if any of the engineers had snuck a teapot on board and dumped it in Saturn orbit.” It stood up to every bit of scrutiny. It really is a teapot, says Baalschmidt, although he concedes that not everyone is convinced.
“Those godless heathens at the ESA are still holding out on their promise to eat their hats. I’ll be sending them a taco-shell sombrero in the next mail.”
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Rather than proof of the existence of God, I think this may simply be proof that intelligent beings drink tea.
If there is a teapot orbiting Saturn, I suspect it is most likely to be an advertising gimmick - some alien’s equivalent of “Where the Bloody Hell Are You?”
Fabulous photos…I am an “earthling” teapot maker…I happen to make a UFO teapot and a “take me to your leader” teapot! Take a look at my website for photos.
All good wishes
Andy
hee hee hee
Well, until more information comes in, you might say this is little more than a tempest in a teapot!
Having said that, one thing for certain is that if the pot is empty we still have the problem of why it is there,,,,,
if it is full–how is the tea kept warm?
It is said that Saturn is the lightest of the planets-find an ocean large enough, so they say, and it will float like a fishing cork—-so the tea in the teapot might actually be HEAVIER than the planet itself.
Hmmm.
There is no tea in the teapot, but it is not empty: on the bottom of the teapot are tea-leaves which just happen to spell out: “There always was sufficient evidence.“
try again:
There is no tea in the teapot, but it is not empty: on the bottom of the teapot are tea-leaves which just happen to spell out: “You weren’t looking.“
This is not proof of a deity, but simply proof that Russel had a great sense of humour and a spacecraft.
If you look carefully, inscribed on the handle is the phrase ‘the universe is a better bible’.
Thanks, Jerome,
Darren
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