Back to Saturn

Well, the Huygens probe successfully detached from Cassini to explore Titan's atmosphere and perhaps surface in a couple of weeks time. Likely a cold version of Venus - I say that because when the NASA and Sov probes got to Venus they didn't have any idea what to expect. The same as Titan, what with that atmosphere blocking our view.



Back to thoughts of that Asian quake and tsunamis - some awful awful footage coming out on TV. Viewing the waves coming in and crashing over the beaches and into the streets behind and stuff, I don't know about any of you, but when I had nightmares as a kid, an awful thing was coming, I could see it, but I couldn't move at all - that's what comes to mind when I see those massive waves crashing over the seawalls.



Also remembering that movie Deep Impact when a huge tidal wave hits the east coast of the USA, the sea stretching back before rushing back in. And the footage from Galle in Sri Lanka which basically looks like it was a massive flood rather than just one wave, very umm bad...