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Sea Water on Enceladus?

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Enceladus has always been my #1 favoritist place to look for life.  It’s not all that far away, and it seems to have a rather active geology:

Cassini Solstice Mission Page

Now, we get this:

Data from Cassini’s cosmic dust analyzer show the grains expelled from fissures, known as tiger stripes, are relatively small and predominantly low in salt far away from the moon. But closer to the moon’s surface, Cassini found that relatively large grains rich with sodium and potassium dominate the plumes. The salt-rich particles have an “ocean-like” composition and indicate that most, if not all, of the expelled ice and water vapor comes from the evaporation of liquid salt water.

That little moon just keeps getting cooler and cooler all the time.  Wonder when Virgin Galactic will start taking vacation trips there?

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Space going into space

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OK, imagine this:

Paris weeps 

Ok, now imagine that going into space.

Oh man, the puns are limitless.  However, I’m quite certain I couldn’t top anything she had to say about it herself:

“I’m very scared about it,” Hilton said. “What if I don’t come back? With the whole light years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I’ll be like, ‘Great. Now I have to start all over.’

I mean, wow. How can you possibly top that?

Now, she’s not just making this stuff up.  I can’t remember which sci-fi movie it was that someone barely leaving the Earth’s atmosphere got sucked up in a time warp and came back to Earth 10,000 years later…..

Oh yeah