Here’s what makes me happy: it’s my day off, and I’ve completely ignored all my chores and errands so I could sit down and paint all day for the first time in ages.
HAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh oh, this seems a bit like the April madness that was “Micky Muse Blog” *dies in fright*
BUT AFTER ALL, WE WERE HAPPY THEN, RIGHT?!??!
I’m happy that I’m done with the paper I was supposed to write. Yay.
What makes me happy:
-no homework
-not being bothered while working on a novel
-good books, good music, good movies
-hope
-any form of sugar
-food (in general, but particularly homemade chicken pot pie, really good pasta, or eggs)
-running (or maybe how I feel after I’ve accomplished a ten mile run…during a ten mile run not so much)
Winning STATE orchestra competition! Or at least getting a TROPHY! I’m so happy being hyperactive on a school bus for an hour and our teacher being hyperactive, too!
Reasons I am happy:
-My fan-fics on Marvel’s site are getting great reviews.
-I’m going to eat a delicious sandwich for lunch tomorrow.
-I just solved a mystery
-I saw a cool exhibit at the Guggenheim yesterday
-Phoenix lands on Mars in 13 days
-Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on the 31st
-I’m flying to Space Camp the day after school is out (Don’t snip, I didn’t say WHICH Space Camp. There’s two.)
Track! And more tack! And yet more track!
Dance/choreography
Theatre
Making un-defective art (a semi-rare occurence)
good food (such as risotto)
Museblog
Provoking weird stares by:
1. doodling Mostly Harmless logos in the margins of my English notebook
2. ballroom dancing and humming the Blue Danube
Spazzing
Sherlock Holmes
Good books
Warm fuzzy feelings at having accomplished something
Snow
My fwends!
Spling Kreatifly
Poetry
Good music (like cabaret)
My sleepaway camp (*sighs nostalgically*)
Playing pretend
Sharp pencils
I don’t belong on this thread today.
BUT-
Happy Things:
Harry Potter series!
H2G2! (Which I just turned my friend on to!)
End of the school year!
My rabbit remembering where his stupid litterbox is!
Beatles!
Fleetwood Mac!
No geometry!
Museblog!
The Phoenix Requiem!
etc.
Barnes and Noble. I was once trapped at Barnes and Noble for five hours because my mom went to cash her ATM card and her car broke down a mile away fromm the bank. I was the happiest girl alive that day.
a) I won’t be in the middle of moving this year, so if there are any kokonventions organized, I can probably go and
b) no homework and extracurricular demands and
c) that means that I finally have time to catch up with the blog! And the magazine while I’m at it…I’m especially looking forward to catching up on my reading there.
– first kiss
– waking up after a restful sleep, only to find it’s 12:30 and you don’t have to get up for another five hours
– golden retriever puppies
– sitting in a window, basking in the sunlight
36-I just went and read the first five or so installments. I like ’em a lot. *wants to read on?* There is one breif moment when you get a little fast, however, other than that, they’re intriguing and fun to read.
30- I read the sixth Sisters Grimm book, a few editions of seventeen and CosmoGIRL, a Dilbert book, and I was skimming through a few Tamora Pierce books I’d been meaning to read when she showed up.
It’s my birthday in 15 days. (my birthday partay in 12 days :D) I had a half day today. When school got out me and a few friends walked down to the lake and swan for a few hours. Then we climbed The Mountain (really just a big hill, but shhhh, we can pretend) and we established a club and built a shelter to hide food in so we could survive the wilderness. Then we got ice cream! That makes me happy.
My baby gerbil makes me happy. I have another picture of him/her to send when I get home.
Yoga also makes me happy because we did it in gym today and now I’m very relaxed.
Raindrops on Roses and
Whiskers on Kittens!
Bright copper kettles and
Warm woolen mittens!
Brown paper packages
tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things!
Girls in white dresses
with blue satin sashes!
Snowflakes that stay on
may nose and eyelashes!
Silver, white winters that
melt into spring!
These are a few of my favorite things!
When the dog bites!
When the bee stings!
When I’m feeling sad!
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don’t feel so bad!
54- I love the sound of music!
Here’s my own poem/song
Wet puppy noses
Playing with hoses
“I Need You” on the radio
Flowers blooming, bees a buzzing
The squeals of laughter in the summer
On the guitar I strum the strings
none of these are a bummer
because they are my favorite things
The sparkling snow
In a boat we row
We run and play
A bird sings
We dance
these are a few of my favorite things
Oh what happiness it brings
No need to look too far
’cause when you need them most
your favorite things,
there they are!
So when you have the worst of days
The Beatles might not be there
or puppies
or summer
or winter
or guitars, or friends,
or birds and boats,
but it won’t be so bad
still your favorite things can cheer you up
so your not feelin’ sad
A really bad poem, I didn’t really think on it too much. BUT I’M STILL HAPPY My puppy makes me happy SOOOOOO MUCH!
54- Meteors burning up in the air!
New comic books!
And soft teddy bears!
T-minus ten!
And Saturn’s bright rings,
These are a few of my favorite things!
mud, grass, pine needles, blackberries, a tattered novel or graphic novel, no homework, and singing annoying songs. Oh, and chocolate, ice cream, new books, new school supplies, goofy movies, rain after a dry spell (the smell is amazing!), cats, rats, dogs, ferrets, dinosaurs, large friendly robots, shiny things, recycling, sunshine, blue skies, forested mountains looking out over lush praries or ocean, drawing ninja dogs in space, climbing trees, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The cool emoticons on DeviantART, fanfiction, Ron Weasley, toast, movies, Olivia, Mae, new bras, shopping, tasty smelling lip ointment, lilacs, forsythia, Muse, Jonny Depp, the Cullens, sleepovers, Stardust, the Beatles, cake, ice cream, cats, cat smell, plastic roses, the Office, my brother, Futurama (Leela rocks!!!!!) , bright yellow nail polish, books, oranges, romance novels, flowers, my room, the way my room smells, Across the Universe, legos, acne cream that actually works, finished homework, long weekends, vacations, sick days, cake, Tetris, pointless activities, computers, typing, Neopets, Tonks, Harry Potter posters, seeing someone I know in the supermarket, Jim Sturgess (<3 <3 <3 hottest guy in the world) Jim Halpert (<3 <3 second hottest guy in the world) Rupert Grint (<3 third hottest guy in the world), guys with a sense of humor, anything Harry Potter related, laughing, new haircuts, mac ‘n cheese, Juno MacGuff (and that whole movie), popping pimples, birds, Maximum Ride, Halloween, birthdays, Christmas, Ross, sheep, pumpkins, Hedwig, horse smell, movies, Fresh City’s smoothies, protestors outside of Wal-Mart/McDonalds, Bush being out of office soon, and Museblog!
I’m happy because I’m going to to a living history event, and I survived at G’ma’s and even had fun. I’m also happy, because the computer allowed me to get on for a little bit….but now I have to go, see you all later!!!
67- I see. The term ‘birding’ is quite hilarious to me.
I just finished a book I’ve been working on for awhile (it was a bit dull). That makes me happy!
I’m working on my Jane Austen paper, and I finished Capter 1 last night!!! And POSOC gave me the definition to the inscription on the bottom of her family crest. My brother just found a wonky carrot, which makes me smile. I’m making a comic book. I read an awesome fanfiction about Tonks last night.
Long weekends
Chocolate
Working out
Watching a rugby game…
Good dreams
Good music
Friends
V-8
Back massages
Flirting
When my friend plays my favorite song on his guitar
Reach for the Top
When it rains outside and everyone stays in and gets to know each other a little better
Finding money in my pockets after I do laundry
When the director brings cookies to rehearsals
Complements
Going for a run
Writing a song/poem
Doing something nice for other people
Free Hugs
Bubble Tea
New Shoes
Good hair days
Good brain days
Halloween
Reading a book I cannot put down
Taking funny pictures
Going to the beach
Yoga
Baking
A clean room
Waking up before my alarm
Spontaneous parties where everyone is sober and happy.
The thrill one feels after they have successfully talked with their crush and not spontaneously combusted, broken anything, or said anything cringe-inducing
Getting an unexpected ‘A’
Being told that you qualify for gr.12 Spanish next year
The peaceful feeling you get after you’ve cried it all out.
Finding a penny on a sidewalk.
doing something particularly witty to my sister.
Dark choklit.
flirting.
running.
playing guitar riffs that sound like someone resurrected AC/DC.
making extremely funny jokes.
blogging.
birding.
hiking.
yelling “MuseBlog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” before jumping off a cliff. (OK, I’ve only done that 0 times.)
dealing with stuck-up eighth grade boys.
dissing Mr. Joe.
Bunny Apocalypse.
graphic design.
painting.
listening to music.
fencing-ouch, someone just hit me with an epee!
skateboarding/scootering/biking.
Pulling hilarious pranks in my mind. I.e., putting boolian cubes behind a shower head, putting 3 eggs in someones shampoo bottle, and putting dish soap into the toilet bowl. (warning; only attempt these when your parents aren’t home and you have time to clean them up. The results can be disasterous. )
I’m going to a private school next year that only has a 4 day week!!! Mon-Fri. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
putting a rubber band around the little squirt-hose in a kitchen sink.
leaping out from behind a bush to shoot someone with a super soaker. (fun, but you pay hard).
Researching about Titan!
Telling someone about Titan!
Revising my essay about Titan!
Talking about Titan!
Letting someone read my essay about Titan!
Calling an orange “Titan”!
Titan!
Here it goes, but I don’t know if it will make you happy…
Titan is the largest of Saturn’s 52 named moons and its few newly discovered moons. As the second largest moon in the solar system, only after Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, it has a diameter of 5150 kilometers and is even larger than the planet Mercury. Ganymede has a diameter of 5262 kilometers, which is only 162 kilometers larger than Titan. Before 1980, Titan was thought to be larger than Ganymede since it has a hazy orange atmosphere that caused overestimation, but that changed after the Voyager 1 spacecraft visited Titan in the 1980s.
Titan is the 20th moon to Saturn among all of Saturn’s currently known moons. It orbits on the same orbit as Hyperion, another moon. Titan makes a full orbit around Saturn every 15 days and 22 hours, and it rotation period is identical to its orbital period.
Discovered on March 25th, 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens with the help of his telescope and some luck, Titan was named simply “Saturni Luna†at that time. “Saturni Luna†is Latin for “Saturn’s moonâ€, since it was Saturn’s first discovered moon. During the discovery of four other moons of Saturn’s between 1673 and 1686, confusion was caused in the numbering of the moons, as new moons were always messing up the order of the moons to Saturn. At that time, Titan was named Saturn II, Saturn IV, and Saturn VI. Titan was also referred to as“Saturn’s ordinary satelliteâ€. In 1789, Titan’s name was Saturn VI, and it was frozen that way to reduce confusion. In 1847, John Herschel suggested the name “Titan†in his publication Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Cape of Good Hope. Herschel got this idea from the Titans in Greek mythology, who was the brother and sisters of the god Cronus, Saturn in Roman mythology. That name stuck.
Titan is an area of interest for present day astrologists. In 1981, when the Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Titan, the pictures it sent back to Earth disappointed astrologists. The camera showed only an orange ball, as Titan’s opaque atmosphere was so thick it was extremely difficult to see through and that Voyager 1’s camera wasn’t designed to penetrate the haze. That incident irked the scientists. Scientists had known that Titan has an atmosphere of methane since Gerard P. Kuiper discovered it in 1944 with a spectroscopic technique , but now, they wanted to find out even more. What was hiding beneath the orange haze?
Engineers at JPL got together. They designed and built the most complex and high tech spacecraft ever: the Cassini orbiter. At 6.7 meters high and 4 meters wide, Cassini weighed 2,125 kilograms unfueled. The spacecraft has four optical remote sensing instruments, six instruments to study fields, particles, and waves, and two microwave remote sensing instruments, adding up to 12 instruments altogether. These powerful instruments are designed to collect data about Saturn and its moons, including Titan. The spacecraft has three antennas, one high gain and two low gain, and they are designed for communication with Earth. Three Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators provide power for the orbiter. Cassini’s camera was designed to penetrate Titan’s hazy atmosphere and map Titan’s surface using radar imaging. Cassini was designed to orbit around Saturn and its large number of moons, and it will fly by Titan 45 times.
Other than the Cassini orbiter, the engineers at ESA also constructed a probe named Huygens. Huygens was named after Christiaan Huygens, discoverer of Titan. Huygens was 2.7 meters in diameter and weighed 320 kilograms. Huygens’ mission was to descend to Titan’s surface. The probe was equipped with six scientific instruments designed to study Titan’s atmosphere and collect data and images of Titan’s surface. The five batteries on Huygens were sized for a mission 153 minutes long, with 2.5 hours of descent data and about half an hour of data collecting on Titan’s surface. If the probe succeeded on landing on Titan, it would be the first ever landing of a probe somewhere in the outer solar system. In all, there were about 5,000 people involved somehow with the construction of Cassini-Huygens.
. On October 15th, 1997, at 4:43 AM, Cassini-Huygens blasted off into space, launched by Titan IVB/ Centaur from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida. People from all over the world cheered. At least the launch was successful.
The spacecraft, though, was not sent directly towards Saturn. The spacecraft got the energy it needed to reach Saturn from its passing by the planets, and then reached Saturn. This was called gravity assist by scientists. Gravity assist is based on the gravitational pull between a planet and a spacecraft. The planet pulls on the spacecraft and the spacecraft pulls on the planet, which permits an energy exchange.
Cassini looped around the Sun twice, flying by Venus two times, once on April 26, 1998, and once on June 24, 1999. The spacecraft also flew by Earth on August 18, 1999. That would provide enough energy for Cassini-Huygens to reach the outer solar system. On December 30, 2000, Cassini-Huygens got its last energy boost from its passing by Jupiter and went all the way to Saturn. It took seven years for Cassini-Huygens to reach Saturn. The spacecraft traveled some 3.5 billion kilometers to reach its destiny, which is about 1.2 billion kilometers from Earth without the gravity assist.
In 2004, seven years after Cassini-Huygens blasted off from Earth, the spacecraft finally reached Saturn, starting to use radar imaging to map Titan’s surface. At 02:00 on December 25th, 2005, Cassini released the Huygens probe at the speed of 30 centimeters per second and seven revolutions per minute to ensure stability during the descent. No systems aboard Huygens were active except for its wake up timer. At about 150 kilometers altitude, the probe started collecting data.
While descending, the probe collected 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 13 seconds of data. The probe found that Titan’s atmosphere consists of 95% nitrogen and about 5% methane, ethane, and other gases. The large amount of nitrogen in Titan’s atmosphere is similar to the amount of nitrogen in Earth’s atmosphere, as Earth’s atmosphere contains 78.1% nitrogen. That is one similarity between Earth and Titan.
Early in1981, in the pictures the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s observation of Titan, the pictures show nothing but a hazy shade of orange. The haze consists of hydrocarbon aerosols, giving Titan its orange color. Methane and ethane are both hydrocarbons, so they are probably part of the orange haze. The hydrocarbon aerosols are included in the 5% of Titan’s atmosphere.
The descent to Titan’s surface would take Huygens 21 days. Why does it take the probe that long just to descend? Titan, the only moon in the solar system known to have a developed atmosphere, has an extremely thick atmosphere reaching about 600 kilometers into space. That’s about 10 times as far as what Earth’s atmosphere reaches, as Earth’s atmosphere only reaches 60 kilometers into space!
Titan’s atmosphere is denser than the atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Mercury. Titan’s atmosphere is about 1.5 times denser than Earth’s atmosphere, with a density of 1.9. If you compare that to the atmosphere of Venus, which is about 100 times as dense as Earth’s atmosphere, and the atmosphere of Mars, which is about 100 times less dense than the atmosphere of Earth, you could say that Titan’s atmosphere is more similar to the atmosphere of Earth than any of Earth’s sister planet’s atmosphere!
When Huygens detected the outer fringes of Titan’s atmosphere, it set off a sequence of events that led to its perfect descent. Huygens opened its 8.3 meter diameter main parachute, and following was the release of the front shield and the opening of the inlets of the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer and the Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser 30 seconds later. Huygens collected a large amount of data during its descent, including information on Titan’s atmosphere’s composition and more than 750 pictures of Titan’s surface. The descent took about two and a half hours.
At 11:04 on January 14, 2006, the probe finally landed safely on Titan’s surface. What the probe observed was amazing. Huygens saw a complex network of narrow channels on the surface. Though they are dry right now, they may have been filled long ago. These channels are like the river systems on Earth. They run into lakebeds with “islands†and “shoals†similar to those found on Earth. Alluvial fans were also found. “The surface is eroded in a way suggesting that the methane condenses into rain causing rivers to flow into lakes.†Mr. Terry L.Grant, a NASA engineer, noted.
Huygens discovered cryovolcanoes that spew out liquid coming from below Titan’s surface, too. Since the temperature is probably high in hot beds, it may be hot enough for the existence of liquid water, so there could be water in liquid form beneath the surface of Titan. Scientists think the cryovolcanoes spew out liquid water mixed with ammonia. Data from the Gas Chromatograph, Mass Spectrometer, and the Surface Science Package provides strong evidence of liquids on Titan.
The liquid on Titan’s surface, however, can not be water. As Titan’s surface temperature is -178 degrees Celsius, water would be certainly frozen. The liquid on Titan could probably be liquid methane. The liquid methane could have carved the channels on Titan’s surface. “We now have the key to understanding what shapes Titan’s landscape,” said Dr Martin Tomasko, Principal Investigator for the Descent Imager-Spectral Radiometer , “Geological evidence for precipitation, erosion, mechanical abrasion and other fluvial activity says that the physical processes shaping Titan are much the same as those shaping Earth.â€
Another main role of methane on Titan is as clouds. Heat generated by Huygens warmed the soil underneath the probe and bursts of methane gas was found boiled out of surface material, reinforcing methane’s forming clouds and precipitating to erode the surface of Titan. Cassini’s radar also found methane clouds near the south pole.
Titan’s frozen surface is made of hydrocarbon particles, different from Earth’s soil. Though there are many differences, the ‘soil†on Titan also form large sand dunes similar to those on Earth. those domes, likely formed by wind, could reach 330 meters high! That is further proof of Titan’s weather’s influence on the surface. Cassini-Huygens have found geological processes similar to Earth’s, and have also found similar terrestrial features. that is very exciting.
Huygens lasted 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 9 seconds on Titan’s surface, far more than it was ever expected to. Every bit of data from the probe was successfully captured by Cassini at the rate of eight kilobits per second, and then sent to Earth (except Chain C, the tiny signal which was captured directly from Titan by people on Earth using the radio telescopes at Green Banks an Parles). “This is only the beginning,†says Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA’s Huygens Mission manager. “These data will live for many years to come and they will keep the scientists very very busy.â€
The Cassini orbiter instruments also observed Titan’s surface, peering through the atmosphere using radar imaging. So far, the orbiter has only found a few impact craters, suggesting the surface of Titan is very young. The small number of craters on Titan suggests that older craters must have been destroyed in recently active geological processes such as volcanism, tectonism, and erosion.
One of the most exciting thing Cassini discovered were black spots on Titan, thought to be lakes by scientists. These lakes vary in size, ranging from about the size of Lake Superior to the one square kilometer. But on the other hand, might these lakes be illusions created by clustered methane clouds? No one knows.
Scientists think Titan is like early Earth, from the nitrogen-rich atmosphere to the liquid-eroded surface. Scientists think Titan has rocky core with a diameter of 3400 kilometers layered by an icy mantle composed of ice, and there might be life hiding underneath Titan’s surface! As a liquid ammonia ocean might exist under the surface of Titan, no one can actually be sure. Cassini has found evidence of an ocean by finding extremely low frequency waves in Titan’s atmosphere. Because Titan’s surface is likely not a good reflector of extremely low frequency waves, the waves may be reflected from the surface of an ocean beneath the surface. Life forms might be able to survive in these extreme conditions, but who knows?
Titan, with its channels, domes, and “lakesâ€, is very similar to early Earth, according to some astrologists, but does life exist on Titan’s surface or below the surface? No one knows. But I certainly believe that one day in the future, astrologists will find life on Titan. After all, the Cassini orbiter is still orbiting Saturn and its family. Who knows what it will find during its next Titan flyby? As for now, no one can be sure. Just like what Mr. Grant says, “Titan has weather and a dense atmosphere, rivers, and lakes, but no oxygen, or water. We only have one sample of life (on Earth), and don’t really know what the minimum requirements are. That’s one reason Titan is so interesting. It has a complex, changing chemical environment and we’d like to know if it can support life.â€
HAPPINESS= AYABIE HAVING A MEET N GREET AFTER THEIR SHOW
OMG LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
Well that and the fact the venue is in Hollywood..lolol at Sunset Boulevard omg I’m dorking out over here guys this is AWESOMMMEEE
All the same, isn’t “Titan” an unusual name for a moon? Most other moons are named after individual mythological beings; Titan is named after a race of beings. It’s as if I were to say to you, “Here are my friends Sam, Mary, Bill, Jennifer, and Leprechaun” or “Jeff, Sally, Jaime, Emma, and Californian.” It’s no discredit to Titan, but it does seem strange.
(112) Well, Titan was another name for the Greek sun god Helios. But the real Titans, the old gods whom the Olympians overthrew, had names of their own: Kronos, Ouranos, Gaia, Prometheus, Atlas, etc.
“Titans” was also the nickname for the students at my high school, and for our sports teams (as in “Remember the…”).
111- Remember; the longer you stay alone, the weirder the thoughts you think. Stay alone for as long as possible, Robert; you shall think weird thoughts.
The naming of Titan:
Titan was originally named “Saturni Luna”. “Saturni Luna†is Latin for “Saturn’s moonâ€, since it was Saturn’s first discovered moon. During the discovery of four other moons of Saturn’s between 1673 and 1686, confusion was caused in the numbering of the moons, as new moons were always messing up the order of the moons to Saturn. At that time, Titan was named Saturn II, Saturn IV, and Saturn VI. Titan was also referred to as “Saturn’s ordinary satelliteâ€. In 1789, Titan’s name was Saturn VI, and it was frozen that way to reduce confusion. In 1847, John Herschel suggested the name “Titan†in his publication Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Cape of Good Hope. Herschel got this idea from the Titans in Greek mythology, who was the brother and sisters of the god Cronus, who is known as Saturn in Roman mythology. That name stuck.
Happiness: that I only have one final left before beach day (to which I am wearing my “pure evil” tee-shirt and graduation, which isn’t really graduation).
Has anyone ever read that absolutely adorable Charlie Brown series: “Happiness is a warm puppy,” “Happiness is a good friend” etc? Its uber sweet! As is Charlie Brown in general…
133-Who wouldn’t love Snoopy? And the whole gang. Particularly Charlie Brown and solemn clever little Linus. I believe that I have read every strip though I confess to not being entirely sure!
134- Though thinking about Charles Schultz’s life makes me sad.
BUT PEANUTS MAKES ME HAPPY!
But how the red-haired girl never noticed Charlie Brown is sad.
BUT PEANUTS MAKES ME HAPPY!
GO SNOOPY~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SNOOPY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOE COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EXTRA EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I usually don’t do that. Just for a little change.
I am happy because I drew a tolerable tallship on my t-shirt, although I drew it at too much of an angle and it looks like it’s sinking. It’s lovely anyways.
170- If you ate it, you don’t have it anymore, so you shouldn’t say you have “one little cookie”. And I don’t scold you for dping, i just say try not to do it.
debating…
reading…
science…
video games…
food…
funding for pursuit of happiness (allowence for candy/toys)…
being funny…
hearing funny things…
and much more.
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
All of there songs
Good songs
George Harrison
meaningful Poems
a nice story
writing music
reading
The Beatles
lyricism
animals
science
life
John Lennon
and much, much, more.
HA! I get to go to a concert tonight….Michael Franti, who I am a total nerd about.
more happy things:
Rainy days
Guitars
Drumsets
Native American Flutes
MuseBlogging
Finding that someone’s commented on one of my websites FOR ONCE.
Flirting
Running
Hiking
My Girlfriend
and so on…
Here’s what makes me happy: it’s my day off, and I’ve completely ignored all my chores and errands so I could sit down and paint all day for the first time in ages.
1- *cheers*
Things that make me happy:
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Not having homework
Ice cream
Fried egg sandwiches
Cozy sweaters
Nice music
Good books (maybe I need JS&MN back.
Because I don’t have homework, lots of these things open up to me. Yay!
Happy things…hmmm?
Books, fresh books!!!
HAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh oh, this seems a bit like the April madness that was “Micky Muse Blog” *dies in fright*
BUT AFTER ALL, WE WERE HAPPY THEN, RIGHT?!??!
I’m happy that I’m done with the paper I was supposed to write. Yay.
What makes me happy:
-no homework
-not being bothered while working on a novel
-good books, good music, good movies
-hope
-any form of sugar
-food (in general, but particularly homemade chicken pot pie, really good pasta, or eggs)
-running (or maybe how I feel after I’ve accomplished a ten mile run…during a ten mile run not so much)
More to come, probably.
More things that make me happy:
Writing
Watching plays
Acting (well, once I’m off-stage I’m happy.)
Things That Make Me Happy
Not having to get off MuseBlog when I don’t want to.
Like now.
Bye, peoples.
Winning STATE orchestra competition! Or at least getting a TROPHY! I’m so happy being hyperactive on a school bus for an hour and our teacher being hyperactive, too!
Reasons I am happy:
-My fan-fics on Marvel’s site are getting great reviews.
-I’m going to eat a delicious sandwich for lunch tomorrow.
-I just solved a mystery
-I saw a cool exhibit at the Guggenheim yesterday
-Phoenix lands on Mars in 13 days
-Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on the 31st
-I’m flying to Space Camp the day after school is out (Don’t snip, I didn’t say WHICH Space Camp. There’s two.)
Space Camp? Awesome!
Happy things tend to make me happy. If they, don’t something’s wrong.
New books on Thursday!!!!! Sequels!!!!!!!!!
Track! And more tack! And yet more track!
Dance/choreography
Theatre
Making un-defective art (a semi-rare occurence)
good food (such as risotto)
Museblog
Provoking weird stares by:
1. doodling Mostly Harmless logos in the margins of my English notebook
2. ballroom dancing and humming the Blue Danube
Spazzing
Sherlock Holmes
Good books
Warm fuzzy feelings at having accomplished something
Snow
My fwends!
Spling Kreatifly
Poetry
Good music (like cabaret)
My sleepaway camp (*sighs nostalgically*)
Playing pretend
Sharp pencils
Happy happy joy joy
Happy happy joy joy
Happy happy joy joy
Happy happy joy joy
*sings*
Happness is Getting my first class, have no homework, singing a song.
Butterflies are happy.
Blue footed boobies
…
How can you not love something with blue feet?
Red footed boobies aren’t bad either.
I don’t belong on this thread today.
BUT-
Happy Things:
Harry Potter series!
H2G2! (Which I just turned my friend on to!)
End of the school year!
My rabbit remembering where his stupid litterbox is!
Beatles!
Fleetwood Mac!
No geometry!
Museblog!
The Phoenix Requiem!
etc.
I am happy because my Muse Fanfic is receiving acclaim, I have no homework tonight, and I got Outstanding Performance award in my play.
(19) Congratulations!
19- That’s cool.
Lemon sorbet……mmmmm………………
i’m happy because i get to go fence new people at my local fencing center.
Spinning! Growing zuchinni’s!(sp?) Those are the things that make me very happy right now.
I am happy because I’m going to egypt thursday morning. Three o’clock in the morning, precisely.
25- Oh my gosh, really?
25- Lucky little wung.
Barnes and Noble. I was once trapped at Barnes and Noble for five hours because my mom went to cash her ATM card and her car broke down a mile away fromm the bank.
I was the happiest girl alive that day.
27- LUCKY. mr mother left me at borders for 1 hr while she took my brother for a haircut but….. 5 hours?!?!?!?
25 – Lucky you! Where in Egypt?
27 – Marooned at a bookstore? Sounds heavenly!
Summer makes me happy because:
a) I won’t be in the middle of moving this year, so if there are any kokonventions organized, I can probably go and
b) no homework and extracurricular demands and
c) that means that I finally have time to catch up with the blog! And the magazine while I’m at it…I’m especially looking forward to catching up on my reading there.
I’m happy ‘cuz I’m graduating in about… two hours. Give or take. That means summer will officially begin tomorrow morning.
25- Lucky.
27- How many books did you read? (or at least read part of)
Pristine pink erasers
Pens that flow
Things that bounce
Pomegranates
-25 wung buttons! why can’t I go to Egypt?
Why is Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy H2G2? Shouldn’t it be HG2G?
25- *is more-than-a-little jealous* Have a flamablambablous (hope that’s right!) time.
33-Ooh! That’s a very valid (note the alliteration) question…*considers at length* *fails to come up with anything*
27- Man, that’d rock.
34- Forgot to tell you, but I think you might enjoy my Conspiracy Wars story on Books In Progress.
33 – HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. H times 2, G times 2.
37 – Really? I never knew that. Kewl.
Bunnies are happy. I ♥ bunnies.
Happy Thoughts:
– first kiss
– waking up after a restful sleep, only to find it’s 12:30 and you don’t have to get up for another five hours
– golden retriever puppies
– sitting in a window, basking in the sunlight
36-*runs helter-skelter to investigate* Can’t wait!
Good food
Happy people around
Water
Cooking
Trees
Few worries
Acting normally
36-I just went and read the first five or so installments. I like ’em a lot. *wants to read on?* There is one breif moment when you get a little fast, however, other than that, they’re intriguing and fun to read.
27-Bury Me In A Library!
42- Thanks.
i’d like to be buried in a library too!
(41)
Waves
Captivating storytellers
Music
Laughter
Memories
Humble but unashamed people
Old books
Almost no homework tonight!
30- I read the sixth Sisters Grimm book, a few editions of seventeen and CosmoGIRL, a Dilbert book, and I was skimming through a few Tamora Pierce books I’d been meaning to read when she showed up.
It’s my birthday in 15 days. (my birthday partay in 12 days :D) I had a half day today. When school got out me and a few friends walked down to the lake and swan for a few hours. Then we climbed The Mountain (really just a big hill, but shhhh, we can pretend) and we established a club and built a shelter to hide food in so we could survive the wilderness. Then we got ice cream! That makes me happy.
48-Sounds fun!
Words that sound complete and wholesome make me exuberant/euphoric!
ha! I won against the ‘phyte fencers!
50-Felicitations (I’m feeling prolix today
)! *pies*
1-Yay, Rebecca!!! That’s happy indeed…
Happy…hm…happy…ah! Eureka!
Eureka moments and mail and theatre make me happy.
My baby gerbil makes me happy. I have another picture of him/her to send when I get home.
Yoga also makes me happy because we did it in gym today and now I’m very relaxed.
Raindrops on Roses and
Whiskers on Kittens!
Bright copper kettles and
Warm woolen mittens!
Brown paper packages
tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things!
Girls in white dresses
with blue satin sashes!
Snowflakes that stay on
may nose and eyelashes!
Silver, white winters that
melt into spring!
These are a few of my favorite things!
When the dog bites!
When the bee stings!
When I’m feeling sad!
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don’t feel so bad!
54 – I was wondering when someone would sing that.
54- I love the sound of music!
Here’s my own poem/song
Wet puppy noses
Playing with hoses
“I Need You” on the radio
Flowers blooming, bees a buzzing
The squeals of laughter in the summer
On the guitar I strum the strings
none of these are a bummer
because they are my favorite things
The sparkling snow
In a boat we row
We run and play
A bird sings
We dance
these are a few of my favorite things
Oh what happiness it brings
No need to look too far
’cause when you need them most
your favorite things,
there they are!
So when you have the worst of days
The Beatles might not be there
or puppies
or summer
or winter
or guitars, or friends,
or birds and boats,
but it won’t be so bad
still your favorite things can cheer you up
so your not feelin’ sad
A really bad poem, I didn’t really think on it too much. BUT I’M STILL HAPPY
My puppy makes me happy SOOOOOO MUCH!
54- Meteors burning up in the air!
New comic books!
And soft teddy bears!
T-minus ten!
And Saturn’s bright rings,
These are a few of my favorite things!
mud, grass, pine needles, blackberries, a tattered novel or graphic novel, no homework, and singing annoying songs. Oh, and chocolate, ice cream, new books, new school supplies, goofy movies, rain after a dry spell (the smell is amazing!), cats, rats, dogs, ferrets, dinosaurs, large friendly robots, shiny things, recycling, sunshine, blue skies, forested mountains looking out over lush praries or ocean, drawing ninja dogs in space, climbing trees, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That strange feeling one gets when one is so entirely emersed in a book that one is deaf to all outside noises…literally!
59-Definitely!
(a list of things that makes MissSwann happy.)
The cool emoticons on DeviantART, fanfiction, Ron Weasley, toast, movies, Olivia, Mae, new bras, shopping, tasty smelling lip ointment, lilacs, forsythia, Muse, Jonny Depp, the Cullens, sleepovers, Stardust, the Beatles, cake, ice cream, cats, cat smell, plastic roses, the Office, my brother, Futurama (Leela rocks!!!!!) , bright yellow nail polish, books, oranges, romance novels, flowers, my room, the way my room smells, Across the Universe, legos, acne cream that actually works, finished homework, long weekends, vacations, sick days, cake, Tetris, pointless activities, computers, typing, Neopets, Tonks, Harry Potter posters, seeing someone I know in the supermarket, Jim Sturgess (<3 <3 <3 hottest guy in the world) Jim Halpert (<3 <3 second hottest guy in the world) Rupert Grint (<3 third hottest guy in the world), guys with a sense of humor, anything Harry Potter related, laughing, new haircuts, mac ‘n cheese, Juno MacGuff (and that whole movie), popping pimples, birds, Maximum Ride, Halloween, birthdays, Christmas, Ross, sheep, pumpkins, Hedwig, horse smell, movies, Fresh City’s smoothies, protestors outside of Wal-Mart/McDonalds, Bush being out of office soon, and Museblog!
i’m going to copy you MissSwann, so be prepared.
a list of things that make Ź√Ҳ happy:
birding, hiking, MuseBlogging, playing a variety of instruments…
62- Actually, I’ve been working on that list for awhile. There’s more, but I didn’t know whether to put it or not.
62- And, what exactly IS ‘birding’?
I’m happy because I’m going to to a living history event, and I survived at G’ma’s and even had fun. I’m also happy, because the computer allowed me to get on for a little bit….but now I have to go, see you all later!!!
raspberry sorbet…
64- Watching birds.
67- I see. The term ‘birding’ is quite hilarious to me.
I just finished a book I’ve been working on for awhile (it was a bit dull). That makes me happy!
I’m working on my Jane Austen paper, and I finished Capter 1 last night!!! And POSOC gave me the definition to the inscription on the bottom of her family crest. My brother just found a wonky carrot, which makes me smile. I’m making a comic book. I read an awesome fanfiction about Tonks last night.
Life is good in the lands of MissSwann.
The words:
Splendid
Esoteric
Anomaly
Perambulator
Make me ecsatic!
yes, birding is watching birds, speaking of birds, i can see an Ash-Throated Flycatcher from my window right now.
70- I can see the Pilliated Woodpecker that lives in my backyard. But that’s it; I think it’s about to rain.
I really should be working on my research paper; it’s due tommorow and I only have 2 pages done. :stress:
Long weekends
Chocolate
Working out
Watching a rugby game…
Good dreams
Good music
Friends
V-8
Back massages
Flirting
When my friend plays my favorite song on his guitar
Reach for the Top
When it rains outside and everyone stays in and gets to know each other a little better
Finding money in my pockets after I do laundry
When the director brings cookies to rehearsals
Complements
Going for a run
Writing a song/poem
Doing something nice for other people
Free Hugs
Bubble Tea
New Shoes
Good hair days
Good brain days
Halloween
Reading a book I cannot put down
Taking funny pictures
Going to the beach
Yoga
Baking
A clean room
Waking up before my alarm
Spontaneous parties where everyone is sober and happy.
The thrill one feels after they have successfully talked with their crush and not spontaneously combusted, broken anything, or said anything cringe-inducing
Getting an unexpected ‘A’
Being told that you qualify for gr.12 Spanish next year
The peaceful feeling you get after you’ve cried it all out.
And I laugh whenever somebody says the word ‘Alberta’ in my presence.
I’m happy because I’m finally on here again!
Running around outside barefoot on a well-tended lawn.
Coconut sorbet…………………………..
Insulting people I hate.
Oh! And Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama!!! He’s the best cartoon character in the universe. I STG, I LOVE Zoidberg!
Finding a penny on a sidewalk.
doing something particularly witty to my sister.
Dark choklit.
flirting.
running.
playing guitar riffs that sound like someone resurrected AC/DC.
making extremely funny jokes.
blogging.
birding.
hiking.
yelling “MuseBlog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” before jumping off a cliff. (OK, I’ve only done that 0 times.)
dealing with stuck-up eighth grade boys.
dissing Mr. Joe.
Bunny Apocalypse.
graphic design.
painting.
listening to music.
fencing-ouch, someone just hit me with an epee!
skateboarding/scootering/biking.
there shall be more later!
Screaming at someone I extremely dislike!
Pulling hilarious pranks in my mind. I.e., putting boolian cubes behind a shower head, putting 3 eggs in someones shampoo bottle, and putting dish soap into the toilet bowl. (warning; only attempt these when your parents aren’t home and you have time to clean them up. The results can be disasterous.
)
I’m going to a private school next year that only has a 4 day week!!! Mon-Fri.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hearing the word “alfalfa”. ‘Always makes me laugh.
putting a rubber band around the little squirt-hose in a kitchen sink.
leaping out from behind a bush to shoot someone with a super soaker. (fun, but you pay hard).
Someone saying “CINDERBLOCK!” very loudly to me.
The H2G2 radio show theme music.
The Stravaganza series!
84- CINDERBLOCK! ((umm…why???))
Finding awesome fan fiction/art of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks. Don’t ask.
Researching about Titan!
Telling someone about Titan!
Revising my essay about Titan!
Talking about Titan!
Letting someone read my essay about Titan!
Calling an orange “Titan”!
Titan!
Reading Crazy Titan Nerd’s essay would make me happy. Can you post it?
86-GRRRRRRRRRRR! CTN, I am irritated. See you tomorrow, but you probably will only read this after i see you.
Kokon in real life!
Goat’s milk ice cream…………………
88- Lucky people.
86- Whoah, now I understand your name.
Birthdays! (mine’s in 5 days!!!!!!!!)
Here it goes, but I don’t know if it will make you happy…
Titan is the largest of Saturn’s 52 named moons and its few newly discovered moons. As the second largest moon in the solar system, only after Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, it has a diameter of 5150 kilometers and is even larger than the planet Mercury. Ganymede has a diameter of 5262 kilometers, which is only 162 kilometers larger than Titan. Before 1980, Titan was thought to be larger than Ganymede since it has a hazy orange atmosphere that caused overestimation, but that changed after the Voyager 1 spacecraft visited Titan in the 1980s.
Titan is the 20th moon to Saturn among all of Saturn’s currently known moons. It orbits on the same orbit as Hyperion, another moon. Titan makes a full orbit around Saturn every 15 days and 22 hours, and it rotation period is identical to its orbital period.
Discovered on March 25th, 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens with the help of his telescope and some luck, Titan was named simply “Saturni Luna†at that time. “Saturni Luna†is Latin for “Saturn’s moonâ€, since it was Saturn’s first discovered moon. During the discovery of four other moons of Saturn’s between 1673 and 1686, confusion was caused in the numbering of the moons, as new moons were always messing up the order of the moons to Saturn. At that time, Titan was named Saturn II, Saturn IV, and Saturn VI. Titan was also referred to as“Saturn’s ordinary satelliteâ€. In 1789, Titan’s name was Saturn VI, and it was frozen that way to reduce confusion. In 1847, John Herschel suggested the name “Titan†in his publication Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Cape of Good Hope. Herschel got this idea from the Titans in Greek mythology, who was the brother and sisters of the god Cronus, Saturn in Roman mythology. That name stuck.
Titan is an area of interest for present day astrologists. In 1981, when the Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Titan, the pictures it sent back to Earth disappointed astrologists. The camera showed only an orange ball, as Titan’s opaque atmosphere was so thick it was extremely difficult to see through and that Voyager 1’s camera wasn’t designed to penetrate the haze. That incident irked the scientists. Scientists had known that Titan has an atmosphere of methane since Gerard P. Kuiper discovered it in 1944 with a spectroscopic technique , but now, they wanted to find out even more. What was hiding beneath the orange haze?
Engineers at JPL got together. They designed and built the most complex and high tech spacecraft ever: the Cassini orbiter. At 6.7 meters high and 4 meters wide, Cassini weighed 2,125 kilograms unfueled. The spacecraft has four optical remote sensing instruments, six instruments to study fields, particles, and waves, and two microwave remote sensing instruments, adding up to 12 instruments altogether. These powerful instruments are designed to collect data about Saturn and its moons, including Titan. The spacecraft has three antennas, one high gain and two low gain, and they are designed for communication with Earth. Three Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators provide power for the orbiter. Cassini’s camera was designed to penetrate Titan’s hazy atmosphere and map Titan’s surface using radar imaging. Cassini was designed to orbit around Saturn and its large number of moons, and it will fly by Titan 45 times.
Other than the Cassini orbiter, the engineers at ESA also constructed a probe named Huygens. Huygens was named after Christiaan Huygens, discoverer of Titan. Huygens was 2.7 meters in diameter and weighed 320 kilograms. Huygens’ mission was to descend to Titan’s surface. The probe was equipped with six scientific instruments designed to study Titan’s atmosphere and collect data and images of Titan’s surface. The five batteries on Huygens were sized for a mission 153 minutes long, with 2.5 hours of descent data and about half an hour of data collecting on Titan’s surface. If the probe succeeded on landing on Titan, it would be the first ever landing of a probe somewhere in the outer solar system. In all, there were about 5,000 people involved somehow with the construction of Cassini-Huygens.
. On October 15th, 1997, at 4:43 AM, Cassini-Huygens blasted off into space, launched by Titan IVB/ Centaur from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida. People from all over the world cheered. At least the launch was successful.
The spacecraft, though, was not sent directly towards Saturn. The spacecraft got the energy it needed to reach Saturn from its passing by the planets, and then reached Saturn. This was called gravity assist by scientists. Gravity assist is based on the gravitational pull between a planet and a spacecraft. The planet pulls on the spacecraft and the spacecraft pulls on the planet, which permits an energy exchange.
Cassini looped around the Sun twice, flying by Venus two times, once on April 26, 1998, and once on June 24, 1999. The spacecraft also flew by Earth on August 18, 1999. That would provide enough energy for Cassini-Huygens to reach the outer solar system. On December 30, 2000, Cassini-Huygens got its last energy boost from its passing by Jupiter and went all the way to Saturn. It took seven years for Cassini-Huygens to reach Saturn. The spacecraft traveled some 3.5 billion kilometers to reach its destiny, which is about 1.2 billion kilometers from Earth without the gravity assist.
In 2004, seven years after Cassini-Huygens blasted off from Earth, the spacecraft finally reached Saturn, starting to use radar imaging to map Titan’s surface. At 02:00 on December 25th, 2005, Cassini released the Huygens probe at the speed of 30 centimeters per second and seven revolutions per minute to ensure stability during the descent. No systems aboard Huygens were active except for its wake up timer. At about 150 kilometers altitude, the probe started collecting data.
While descending, the probe collected 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 13 seconds of data. The probe found that Titan’s atmosphere consists of 95% nitrogen and about 5% methane, ethane, and other gases. The large amount of nitrogen in Titan’s atmosphere is similar to the amount of nitrogen in Earth’s atmosphere, as Earth’s atmosphere contains 78.1% nitrogen. That is one similarity between Earth and Titan.
Early in1981, in the pictures the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s observation of Titan, the pictures show nothing but a hazy shade of orange. The haze consists of hydrocarbon aerosols, giving Titan its orange color. Methane and ethane are both hydrocarbons, so they are probably part of the orange haze. The hydrocarbon aerosols are included in the 5% of Titan’s atmosphere.
The descent to Titan’s surface would take Huygens 21 days. Why does it take the probe that long just to descend? Titan, the only moon in the solar system known to have a developed atmosphere, has an extremely thick atmosphere reaching about 600 kilometers into space. That’s about 10 times as far as what Earth’s atmosphere reaches, as Earth’s atmosphere only reaches 60 kilometers into space!
Titan’s atmosphere is denser than the atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Mercury. Titan’s atmosphere is about 1.5 times denser than Earth’s atmosphere, with a density of 1.9. If you compare that to the atmosphere of Venus, which is about 100 times as dense as Earth’s atmosphere, and the atmosphere of Mars, which is about 100 times less dense than the atmosphere of Earth, you could say that Titan’s atmosphere is more similar to the atmosphere of Earth than any of Earth’s sister planet’s atmosphere!
When Huygens detected the outer fringes of Titan’s atmosphere, it set off a sequence of events that led to its perfect descent. Huygens opened its 8.3 meter diameter main parachute, and following was the release of the front shield and the opening of the inlets of the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer and the Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser 30 seconds later. Huygens collected a large amount of data during its descent, including information on Titan’s atmosphere’s composition and more than 750 pictures of Titan’s surface. The descent took about two and a half hours.
At 11:04 on January 14, 2006, the probe finally landed safely on Titan’s surface. What the probe observed was amazing. Huygens saw a complex network of narrow channels on the surface. Though they are dry right now, they may have been filled long ago. These channels are like the river systems on Earth. They run into lakebeds with “islands†and “shoals†similar to those found on Earth. Alluvial fans were also found. “The surface is eroded in a way suggesting that the methane condenses into rain causing rivers to flow into lakes.†Mr. Terry L.Grant, a NASA engineer, noted.
Huygens discovered cryovolcanoes that spew out liquid coming from below Titan’s surface, too. Since the temperature is probably high in hot beds, it may be hot enough for the existence of liquid water, so there could be water in liquid form beneath the surface of Titan. Scientists think the cryovolcanoes spew out liquid water mixed with ammonia. Data from the Gas Chromatograph, Mass Spectrometer, and the Surface Science Package provides strong evidence of liquids on Titan.
The liquid on Titan’s surface, however, can not be water. As Titan’s surface temperature is -178 degrees Celsius, water would be certainly frozen. The liquid on Titan could probably be liquid methane. The liquid methane could have carved the channels on Titan’s surface. “We now have the key to understanding what shapes Titan’s landscape,” said Dr Martin Tomasko, Principal Investigator for the Descent Imager-Spectral Radiometer , “Geological evidence for precipitation, erosion, mechanical abrasion and other fluvial activity says that the physical processes shaping Titan are much the same as those shaping Earth.â€
Another main role of methane on Titan is as clouds. Heat generated by Huygens warmed the soil underneath the probe and bursts of methane gas was found boiled out of surface material, reinforcing methane’s forming clouds and precipitating to erode the surface of Titan. Cassini’s radar also found methane clouds near the south pole.
Titan’s frozen surface is made of hydrocarbon particles, different from Earth’s soil. Though there are many differences, the ‘soil†on Titan also form large sand dunes similar to those on Earth. those domes, likely formed by wind, could reach 330 meters high! That is further proof of Titan’s weather’s influence on the surface. Cassini-Huygens have found geological processes similar to Earth’s, and have also found similar terrestrial features. that is very exciting.
Huygens lasted 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 9 seconds on Titan’s surface, far more than it was ever expected to. Every bit of data from the probe was successfully captured by Cassini at the rate of eight kilobits per second, and then sent to Earth (except Chain C, the tiny signal which was captured directly from Titan by people on Earth using the radio telescopes at Green Banks an Parles). “This is only the beginning,†says Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA’s Huygens Mission manager. “These data will live for many years to come and they will keep the scientists very very busy.â€
The Cassini orbiter instruments also observed Titan’s surface, peering through the atmosphere using radar imaging. So far, the orbiter has only found a few impact craters, suggesting the surface of Titan is very young. The small number of craters on Titan suggests that older craters must have been destroyed in recently active geological processes such as volcanism, tectonism, and erosion.
One of the most exciting thing Cassini discovered were black spots on Titan, thought to be lakes by scientists. These lakes vary in size, ranging from about the size of Lake Superior to the one square kilometer. But on the other hand, might these lakes be illusions created by clustered methane clouds? No one knows.
Scientists think Titan is like early Earth, from the nitrogen-rich atmosphere to the liquid-eroded surface. Scientists think Titan has rocky core with a diameter of 3400 kilometers layered by an icy mantle composed of ice, and there might be life hiding underneath Titan’s surface! As a liquid ammonia ocean might exist under the surface of Titan, no one can actually be sure. Cassini has found evidence of an ocean by finding extremely low frequency waves in Titan’s atmosphere. Because Titan’s surface is likely not a good reflector of extremely low frequency waves, the waves may be reflected from the surface of an ocean beneath the surface. Life forms might be able to survive in these extreme conditions, but who knows?
Titan, with its channels, domes, and “lakesâ€, is very similar to early Earth, according to some astrologists, but does life exist on Titan’s surface or below the surface? No one knows. But I certainly believe that one day in the future, astrologists will find life on Titan. After all, the Cassini orbiter is still orbiting Saturn and its family. Who knows what it will find during its next Titan flyby? As for now, no one can be sure. Just like what Mr. Grant says, “Titan has weather and a dense atmosphere, rivers, and lakes, but no oxygen, or water. We only have one sample of life (on Earth), and don’t really know what the minimum requirements are. That’s one reason Titan is so interesting. It has a complex, changing chemical environment and we’d like to know if it can support life.â€
Oh , and I’m not done revising and editting it…
Enjoy, everyone!
90- Nice! Maybe I’ll post my Jane Austen research paper… taht would make me happy…
Very nice, Crazy Titan Nerd!
91-Great Job!
92-Post it too!
94- M’kay. Lemme find it.
[As the text is rather long, I’ve created a Google document, which you can read here: MissSwann’s paper on Jane Austen. –Rebecca]
Tank you very much. It isn’t my best work… I prefer mine on Joan of Arc… but hey, it was fn to write.
96- Good job.
I feel that mine isn’t long enough.
I don’t think that makes me happy, but hey, your essay made me feel good.
97- Although, you said “astrologers” when you should have said “astronomers” or “planetologists”. Astrologers are a kind of fortune-tellers.
97- Thank you. It was 3 chapters long all melded together, if the structure seems a bit weird. I think yours is better, personally.
-Eating avacados.
-Phoenix landed safely.
– That Titan essay.
HAPPINESS= AYABIE HAVING A MEET N GREET AFTER THEIR SHOW
OMG LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
Well that and the fact the venue is in Hollywood..lolol at Sunset Boulevard omg I’m dorking out over here guys this is AWESOMMMEEE
HAPPINESS = EATING TWIZZLERS FOR 2 HOURS STRAIGHT
Happiness=eating skittles while watching a rom-com with your BFF.
Happiness=Going on Muse Blog!!!!
104 – Hm. I’m amazed nobody already said that…
Happiness=the word pseudonym, black glitter nail polish, and bffyls.
Oh, and smexy guys. Like Edward… *sighs dreamily*
pineapple sorbet…
Finding humor in everyday situations.
Like flying northeast on Southwest Airlines.
Being crazy about Titan!
Titan! Titan! Titan!
Posting about Titan!
Titan! Titan! Titan!
Yay!
Titan! Titan! Titan!
Yahoo!
Titan! Titan! Titan!
Mwah hah hah hah hah!
Titan! Titan! Titan!
All the same, isn’t “Titan” an unusual name for a moon? Most other moons are named after individual mythological beings; Titan is named after a race of beings. It’s as if I were to say to you, “Here are my friends Sam, Mary, Bill, Jennifer, and Leprechaun” or “Jeff, Sally, Jaime, Emma, and Californian.” It’s no discredit to Titan, but it does seem strange.
Thinking odd thoughts like that makes me happy.
111- The word “Titan” seems to have the ability to act as a name for an individual and a race at the same time.
111- I’m glad to hear that Titan makes someone feel happy (other than me).
As for me…
TITAN!!!!!
(112) Well, Titan was another name for the Greek sun god Helios. But the real Titans, the old gods whom the Olympians overthrew, had names of their own: Kronos, Ouranos, Gaia, Prometheus, Atlas, etc.
“Titans” was also the nickname for the students at my high school, and for our sports teams (as in “Remember the…”).
Acting makes me happy. Blissfully happy.
Tests make me happy. Essay questions do not, though, unless they’re about something I can answer easily.
111- Remember; the longer you stay alone, the weirder the thoughts you think. Stay alone for as long as possible, Robert; you shall think weird thoughts.
I am very glad to hear many people talking about Titan, and it makes me feel happy!
117-why are you at the computer so late?
118 – Nice. Careful with that alter ego!
Happy happy happy! One day less of exams!
118- Oh! I know who you are… heh heh…
Happy happy day! I’m working on my Titanian essay and coming on MuseBlog!!!
Happy happy day! I have no homework…
… well, actually I have a little.
Caprachino ice cream…………….
111-but it’s kind of like a species, in a way, and you can name a planet or moon chimerae or monster or cyclops(though polyphemus makes more sense).
111- Well Kronos (The Greek name for Saturn) was the father of all the titans.
The naming of Titan:
Titan was originally named “Saturni Luna”. “Saturni Luna†is Latin for “Saturn’s moonâ€, since it was Saturn’s first discovered moon. During the discovery of four other moons of Saturn’s between 1673 and 1686, confusion was caused in the numbering of the moons, as new moons were always messing up the order of the moons to Saturn. At that time, Titan was named Saturn II, Saturn IV, and Saturn VI. Titan was also referred to as “Saturn’s ordinary satelliteâ€. In 1789, Titan’s name was Saturn VI, and it was frozen that way to reduce confusion. In 1847, John Herschel suggested the name “Titan†in his publication Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Cape of Good Hope. Herschel got this idea from the Titans in Greek mythology, who was the brother and sisters of the god Cronus, who is known as Saturn in Roman mythology. That name stuck.
OH, and why isn’t anyone replying? Am I too annoying, blabbering on and on about Titan?
You’re not annoying. The history of Titan is actually more interesting than I thought it would be!
128- Oh, thank you, Bookworm!
How boring did you expect the history of Titan to be?
No, you’re not boring us. Titan is cool.
Oh yay! At least I’m not the only one here to think Titan is cool and awesome!
Happiness: that I only have one final left before beach day (to which I am wearing my “pure evil” tee-shirt and graduation, which isn’t really graduation).
Has anyone ever read that absolutely adorable Charlie Brown series: “Happiness is a warm puppy,” “Happiness is a good friend” etc? Its uber sweet! As is Charlie Brown in general…
132- Chalie Brown? My 5th grade teacher loved Snoopy…
Memories make me happy.
But Titan does, too.
133-Who wouldn’t love Snoopy? And the whole gang. Particularly Charlie Brown and solemn clever little Linus. I believe that I have read every strip though I confess to not being entirely sure!
I am Snoopy, rather sad…
134- “Don’t worry, today is not the end of the world. It’s already tomorrow in Australia!
I love Peanuts.
134- Well, my 5th grade teacher collected stuffed versions of the PEANUTS gang and pins and all the things that probably ever existed about them…
Thinking those thoughts make me happy…
And Titan does… too…
134- Though thinking about Charles Schultz’s life makes me sad.
BUT PEANUTS MAKES ME HAPPY!
But how the red-haired girl never noticed Charlie Brown is sad.
BUT PEANUTS MAKES ME HAPPY!
Well, having limited time on the computer makes me sad.
But TItan makes me happy, of course!
I live near St. Paul, so I go to the Science Museum and such and I see statues of Snoopy.
And then… *sniffle* And then… I see ads for NICKELODEON UNIVERSE!!!!
*bursts into tears*
I ♥ Snoopy!
I am boycotting Nickelodeon Universe. If I go, I’m wearing all Snoopy attire. I have a Snoopy baseball cap, earrings, and (maybe) shirt.
GO SNOOPY!
GO SNOOPY!!!!!!
GO TITAN!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and NAPOI and I went to Great America yesterday.
HAPPY!!!
GO SNOOPY~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SNOOPY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOE COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EXTRA EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I usually don’t do that. Just for a little change.
What??? Mr. Joe isn’t cool.
Just teasing.
Well, NAPOI told me to diss Mr. Joe and I didn’t…
NAPOI makes me happy…
145 – Ooh, you like her???
146-Uh, CTN is a girl.
146- I AM A GIRL!!!!!
SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND!!!!!
Sorry, doublepost…
147- NAPOI! You’re on!!!!!!
150- Well, OF COURSE you were kidding…
Kidding people makes me happy…
Jokes make me happy.
It makes me happy that so many more people are made happy by Peanuts! *resists from launching into quoting rampage (at least momentarily)*
It also makes me happy that I played Calvinball at beach day today! Joy!
148-Oh, You finally decided.
144- Mr.Joe is not cool. I was talking about Snoopy’s nickname when he went to that camp
I am happy because I drew a tolerable tallship on my t-shirt, although I drew it at too much of an angle and it looks like it’s sinking.
It’s lovely anyways.
155 – I know.
153-Calvinball is so fun!
154- I decided on the Neophytes thread!!!!!!
Today I drew Titan on my class’ whiteboard.
I AM HAPPY!!!!!
159-Oh. I see.
Last day of school!
HAPPY!!!
Titan!
HAPPY!!!
LAST. DAY. OF. SCHOOL.
*explodes with happiness*
159-NO U DID NOT!!!!!!!!
163- Yes I did, except I drew it in brown and some one erased it…
Arguing does NOT make me happy!
But Titan does.
164-No, not that…
I mean that no you did not decide ot the neophytes thread.
165- I DIDN’T????
165- I DID SAY THAT I WAS A GIRL ON THE NEOPHYTES THREAD!
I am not very amused, but Titan still makes me happy
167-Oh. MISUNDERSTANDING!!!!!!!!!
I meant the “best friend” thing, not your gender.
Anyone here?
And CTN, how did the cookie shrink? And WILL YOU EAT IT ALREADY?!?!?!?!?!
168- Oh…
169- I thought I ate it virtually…
And, if YOU scold ME for doubleposting, why do YOU doublepost?
Why?
WHY?
I am amused…
170- If you ate it, you don’t have it anymore, so you shouldn’t say you have “one little cookie”. And I don’t scold you for dping, i just say try not to do it.
171- Just leave the cookies alone…
Life is purple,
Death is green,
Titan is orange.
YAY!!!
debating…
reading…
science…
video games…
food…
funding for pursuit of happiness (allowence for candy/toys)…
being funny…
hearing funny things…
and much more.
Titan…
Saturn…
Mimas…
Hyperion…
Tethys…
Dione…
Rhea…
Iapetus…
Enceladus…
Pan…
Pandora…
Atlas…
And all of Saturn’s other moons…
John Lennon
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
All of there songs
Good songs
George Harrison
meaningful Poems
a nice story
writing music
reading
The Beatles
lyricism
animals
science
life
John Lennon
and much, much, more.
All of Saturn’s moons:
Aegir
Albiorix
Anthe
Atlas
Bebhionn
Bergelmir
Bestla
Calypso
Daphnis
Dione
Enceladus
Epimetheus
Erriapus
Farbauti
Fenrir
Fornjot
Greip
Hati
Helene
Hyperion
Hyrokkin
Iapetus
Ijiraq
Janus
Jarnsaxa
Kari
Kiviuq
Loge
Methone
Mimas
Mundilfari
Narvi
Paaliaq
Pallene
Pan
Pandora
Phoebe
Polydeuces
Prometheus
Rhea
Siarnaq
Skadi
Skoll
Surtur
Suttung
Tarqeq
Tarvos
Telesto
Tethys
Thrym
Titan
Ymir
176- A lot of them are named after Norse deities.
A certain sense of freedom
HA! I get to go to a concert tonight….Michael Franti, who I am a total nerd about.
more happy things:
Rainy days
Guitars
Drumsets
Native American Flutes
MuseBlogging
Finding that someone’s commented on one of my websites FOR ONCE.
Flirting
Running
Hiking
My Girlfriend
and so on…
179-You have a girlfriend? Were you on the romance thread? I thought you weren’t finding anyone. Congrats, anyway!
Ah! That reminds me:
HAPPINESS: Staying off of the romance thread
Red-tailed HAWK
Happiness is being the only Titanite around here (or at least I think)
Why does no one reply?
*sniffle*
I’ve waited TWO days and NO ONE replies!
Happiness=someone replying to my posts!!!!!
183 – Yes, I agree!
184- Wow. You waited 8 days!