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Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
Icy North Started conversation Nov 27, 2012
Scientists have discovered that if they process images from Tethys, a moon of the planet Saturn in a certain way, then it looks exactly like the star of the arcade game PacMan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510109
Yet, this is no throwaway item. The phenomenon has been properly documented and published in Icarus, an academic journal devoted to the publication of original contributions in the field of Solar System studies. The article's main author, CJA Howett, works at the Southwest Research Institute in Bolder, Colorado.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103512004204#
According to the article's abstract, they've been measuring the moon's 'bolometric Bond albedo', which sounds to me like a scientific description of the effect Daniel Craig has on women.
Howett's results provide 'strong evidence that MeV electrons can significantly alter icy surfaces.' But I wonder if he'd have published if he hadn't seen PacMan?
If ever there was a shoo-in for next year's IgNobel prizes, then this has to be it.
Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
Deb Posted Nov 27, 2012
Well I hope someone's alerted The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk: F19585?thread=8298451
Deb 
Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Nov 27, 2012
Between the zombies, killer robotic domestic appliances, a pac-man eating moon, and the inevitable metior strike, we don't stand a chance! damnit... I'm going to go find some of these hallucinogenic mushrooms and a raindeer to pass them though, if we're doomed to this extent one might as well try and ease the pain 
Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
Recumbentman Posted Nov 27, 2012
Some people's reaction is always to take the piss
Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 27, 2012
And they say we don't need a tinfoil hat smiley. 
Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Nov 27, 2012
We're doomed! We're doomed! Doomed I tell ya...
Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) Posted Nov 27, 2012
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Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Nov 28, 2012
>>sounds to me like a scientific description of the effect Daniel Craig has on women>>
*sniggers*
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Earth Shortly To Be Devoured By Giant PacMan - It's Official
- 1: Icy North (Nov 27, 2012)
- 2: Deb (Nov 27, 2012)
- 3: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Nov 27, 2012)
- 4: Recumbentman (Nov 27, 2012)
- 5: Baron Grim (Nov 27, 2012)
- 6: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Nov 27, 2012)
- 7: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Nov 27, 2012)
- 8: Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) (Nov 27, 2012)
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