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Submission + - Underground Water on Saturn's Moon? (thefutureofthings.com)

Iddo Genuth writes: "Researchers working on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn are theorizing that Saturn's moon Enceladus has pockets of liquid water located just underneath its surface. Several recent flybys of this moon (including one on October 9, 2008 that passed a mere 16 miles from its surface) focused on studying water vapor plumes and jets of icy particles shooting out of the moon. This phenomenon was discovered by Cassini in 2005, but the new closer photographs and spectral analysis of captured particles allowed researchers to compare their behavior to mathematical models. The observed behavior matches that which was predicted for situations when underground water is present."

Comment The Semantic Wiki (Score 1) 478

How should Wikipedia face these challenges? Scrap the current monolithic article model, and begin publishing incremental edits in XML instead.

This way, independent third-parties could serve customized edit filters of the main Wikipedia database. For instance, one site could serve only articles composed of edits made by scholars. Another site could serve only articles composed of edits approved by a board of editors whose particular editorial style you like. Yet another site could serve edits based on mass moderation. And yet another site could allow you to select from all the available edits to an article in order to tailor the exact article which meets your particular demands. Companies like Google could mirror the edit database and apply their own proprietary search and ranking technologies. Contributors could discuss and evaluate single edits in detail, and so on.

Wikis has opened up editing. Now let's open up viewing as well.

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