{"id":87885,"date":"2020-09-04T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T03:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=87885"},"modified":"2020-09-04T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:56:24","slug":"so-what-does-saturns-largest-moon-smell-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/09\/so-what-does-saturns-largest-moon-smell-like.html","title":{"rendered":"So what DOES Saturn’s largest moon smell like?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A public domain image from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the surface of Titan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There\u2019s good, or at least promising, coronavirus news:<\/p>\n

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\u201cUniversity of Utah Health now using saliva testing for COVID-19 instead of nasal swab: Daily average tops 400 as Utah confirms more than 500 new COVID-19 cases Friday, 5 additional deaths\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cSteroids reduce deaths of critically ill COVID-19 patients, WHO confirms: The finding strengthens evidence that clinicians should give severely sick people the drugs\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWill there be a COVID-19 vaccine by November? The CDC surely thinks so: CDC has told states to prepare for a COVID-19 vaccine in the fall.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some of us, though, are evidently determined, through sheer irresponsibility, to keep the pandemic going as long and as disruptively as we\u2019re able:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHere\u2019s how many people Delta has banned for refusing to wear face masks: Delta has banned hundreds of passengers who didn\u2019t want to wear a mask on a flight\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter 40 students test positive for COVID-19, BYU urges caution on Labor Day weekend: \u201cBehavior this weekend could make or break our ability to remain on campus,\u201d says university\u2019s official Twitter account\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cStonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument: Scientists created a scale model one-twelfth the size of the ancient site to study its acoustics\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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But \u2014 and Stonehenge seems a perfectly appropriate place of transition \u2014 let\u2019s look up from earthly things to the heavens just a bit:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRarest planet in the universe may be lurking in Orion\u2019s nose: This could be the first known planet in the universe to orbit three suns at once.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cA weirdly warped planet-forming disk circles a distant trio of stars: The bizarre geometry of this system is the first known of its kind\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If your candidate doesn\u2019t win this November and if you\u2019ve vowed to leave the country should the Other Guy (aka The Incarnation of Evil) prevail, you might want to give serious consideration to Saturn\u2019s largest moon.\u00a0 From the descriptions, its balmy breezes sound absolutely lovely, and the images included with this article make it look very beautiful indeed:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat does Titan smell like?\u00a0\u00a0A bouquet of musky sweetness, bitter almonds, gasoline, and decomposing fish would likely fill the air on Saturn\u2019s largest satellite.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cAstronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand\u2026 It shows us how small is man\u2019s body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.\u201d (Henri Poincar\u00e9, in La Valeur de la Science<\/em>\u00a0[1904])<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s good, or at least promising, coronavirus news: \u00a0 \u201cUniversity of Utah Health now using saliva testing for COVID-19 instead of nasal swab: Daily average tops 400 as Utah confirms more than 500 new COVID-19 cases Friday, 5 additional deaths\u201d \u00a0 \u201cSteroids reduce deaths of critically ill COVID-19 patients, WHO confirms: The finding 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