No, we’re not talking about the defunct game console that was essentially beaten by its own makers.
No, we’re not talking about the soon to be defunct car company that was beaten by less efficient cars.
We’re talking about the planet! NASA, those caaaa-razy guys with glasses, have found a new, giant ring around the planet. This is puzzling considering that planet Saturn is absolutely colossal, and you would think that one of its rings, which fit around this gigantic ball, would be fairly easy to find by now.
It would be if Rick Snee hadn’t broken the Hubble Telescope 10 years ago. I won’t go into the story of how that happened, but let’s just say that it involved a dromedary camel, fire retardant foam, a George Foreman grill, Raul Julia’s mustache from The Addams Family and the space shuttle Victory.
In order to fill our nerd quotient of the week, here’s a helpful hint: make sure to look up two of Saturn’s moons, Mimas and Iapetus. That’s right, both Death Stars revolve around Saturn. /nerd quotient