I wonder what land fish taste like...

I don't think the color matters, since it's even more un-American to actually use the turn signals. If you must use one, then leave it on for at least fifteen minutes. By no means should you actually do what the signal indicates.

As long is it's organic salt...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is effectively color. The Wide Angle Camera (WAC) on LROC has seven visible-band and two UV filters.

Color is all done with filters. The CCD just detects light. You select for color by placing a filter in front of it to only let a chosen wavelength band through, depending on what you want to look for. You can make a color composite (what is commonly called a "color picture") by taking the same image in three different wavelength bands.

While it is amazing, LROC isn't really the right instrument for this observation. If the ice is covered by dust, it will be hard to see in visible light. The LAMP (Lyman-alpha), LEND (neutron), and Mini-RF (the RADAR used in this study) are better for detecting buried water ice.

Why even waste time RTFT (Title)? Just start commenting. To paraphrase one Zapp Brannigan: Make as many posts as you can as fast as you can. Don't stop for _any reason_.

Comets. Icebergs of the sky. By jackknifing from one to the next at breakneck speed, we might get some kind of gravity boost ... or something.

The government may classify information as Confidential if it would damage national security if disclosed to the public. That doesn't appear to be the case here, but it's true that not all government information is nor should be publicly available. That's not to say the classification system doesn't get misused, but that's another issue.

I don't believe that number was reached by flying a grad student through the sun with a thermometer.

That's exactly how that measurement was made. Turns out that grad students are both cheaper and more expendable than alternative techniques.

Here you go.

Ixnay on the "ottenray".

The House has 435 members at full capacity. There were only ten who did not vote (and evidently six vacancies); not enough to make any difference.

By law, NASA funds can only be spent at US institutions. The recipient may be a foreign citizen, but must be an employee of a US institution. I would assume ESA, JAXA, ISRO and others have similar policies for their respective countries.

While there is no global magnetic field today, strong crustal magnetism suggests that it must have had such a field in the past. Dynamo activity would have stopped once the core-mantle heat flow became unfavorable to core convection.

Only after about a minute and a half of guffawing.

+1 for correct use of the phrase "begs the question".