miranda has some strange markings on it

[snoorkel]

does it look like extraterrestrial mining to anyone else???

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Miranda.jpg[/img]

[applesauce]

or strech marks on joe's back

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

Giant farms.

[snoorkel]

Giant farms.

soul farms? O_O

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

soul farms? O_O

No, vegetable farms. Space vegetables.
Space carrots.
Space corn.
Space Peas.

The best thing about space crops is that they're huge.

[Socks]

I think it's pretty cool actually. It looks to me like the material, whatever it may have been, was once extremely hot and rapidly cooled, preserving those perfect ripples and race tracks. Where the Mirandans gathered and danced, laughed, bought space dogs, and preferred cats. Before the War and space Bim Boom Bam, which was all very bad, and killed off the Martians, for where were they at?

[Hippopo]

I think it's pretty cool actually. It looks to me like the material, whatever it may have been, was once extremely hot and rapidly cooled, preserving those perfect ripples and race tracks. Where the Mirandans gathered and danced, laughed, bought space dogs, and preferred cats. Before the War and space Bim Boom Bam, which was all very bad, and killed off the Martians, for where were they at?

That's an interesting theory.  Some think Miranda completely shattered from a cataclysmic impact, and then reformed into a frankenstein-esque moon.

My favorite moon in the solar system is Titan, followed by Triton and Europa.  

[snoorkel]

That's an interesting theory.  Some think Miranda completely shattered from a cataclysmic impact, and then reformed into a frankenstein-esque moon.

My favorite moon in the solar system is Titan, followed by Triton and Europa.  

I was going to say, before I read your reply, that it actually looks like the result of a huge collision. I'm imagining two moon-sized things merging into each other over the course of millions of years

[Hippopo]

I was going to say, before I read your reply, that it actually looks like the result of a huge collision. I'm imagining two moon-sized things merging into each other over the course of millions of years

Really?  That's pretty cool that you came up with the leading theory on your own.

Of course we haven't observed what happens when two moons collide.  BUT!  We should be able to soon(ish).  I mean some moons in the solar system as so close together, they basically share the same orbits...  So it's only a matter of time before they hit.  I think I remember seeing somewhere that Cupid is predicted to collide with another moon.  Of course, this is from memory, so I'm not sure.

BUT!

I'm interested in seeing if two moons collide if they'd merge OR if they'd form a ring like Saturn.

Honestly, I don't think they'd form a ring, but that's what some scientists think will probably happen.

[snoorkel]

Really?  That's pretty cool that you came up with the leading theory on your own.

Of course we haven't observed what happens when two moons collide.  BUT!  We should be able to soon(ish).  I mean some moons in the solar system as so close together, they basically share the same orbits...  So it's only a matter of time before they hit.  I think I remember seeing somewhere that Cupid is predicted to collide with another moon.  Of course, this is from memory, so I'm not sure.

BUT!

I'm interested in seeing if two moons collide if they'd merge OR if they'd form a ring like Saturn.

Honestly, I don't think they'd form a ring, but that's what some scientists think will probably happen.

honestly I only skimmed its wikipedia page, and I don't think it even mentions that theory. it seems kind of obvious, anyway, from the regions on opposite hemispheres that look like flowing liquid, as socks noticed. I think I have seen the theory mentioned with regard to our own moon, oddly

wouldn't it depend on the disposition of gravity waves in the particular region. like if the debris resulting from a collision settled in a trough or on a crest of a field, and so condensed or spread out?

[Hippopo]

honestly I only skimmed its wikipedia page, and I don't think it even mentions that theory. it seems kind of obvious, anyway, from the regions on opposite hemispheres that look like flowing liquid, as socks noticed. I think I have seen the theory mentioned with regard to our own moon, oddly

wouldn't it depend on the disposition of gravity waves in the particular region. like if the debris resulting from a collision settled in a trough or on a crest of a wave, and so condensed or spread out?

I haven't studied fluid dynamics, so I don't really know. I'm guessing it would though.  ???

[snoorkel]

yea, it probably depends on that and a lot of other things. like baking a cake.

[Hippopo]

Also...  This is kind of my own theory... But...

It doesn't make sense to me why there are dawrf planet sized objects floating around in the Kuiper belt.  Why didn't they fuse like the rest of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago? 

Perhaps they are still fusing, but slowly... And very young planets that formed from frozen materials take on the appearance of Miranda.  And perhaps Miranda is just a young kuiper belt planet that Uranus caught.

I don't know.   

[silvertone]

i heard nasa reported when they bring out the Super Telescope that the "Cracks" are actually the miranda rights engraved on the moon's surface and that this influenced  the 1966 sublimely supreme court decision? and Stanley Kubrick Discovered this??

[Nyerp]

how can u know space evn exits if uve never Seen IT...