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R.I.P. Cassini

September 16, 2017 by Adrian J Ivakhiv

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”

62 moons orbiting in and around the grooved rings of Saturn. Winter and spring, hurricanes, jet streams, and auroras. Rivers and deltas pelted by methane rains on Titan. Hydrothermal vented oceans, and geysers shooting plumes of water that fall back as snow on Enceladus. Moons forming spiral waves cresting in the mother planet’s B ring. Janus and Epimetheus relay racing in the same orbit. Pan and Daphnis leaving rippled wakes in their passing. Prometheus and Pandora, and the tiny pinprick of Earth visible through the rings.

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

 R.I.P., Cassini (Oct 15 1997-Sept 15 2017).

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Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Visual culture | Tagged Blade Runner, Cassini, images, moving image, seeing, visuality | 4 Comments

4 Responses

  1. on September 24, 2017 at 6:09 am Lowongan Kerja

    Nyoba dulu alias jajal sik yo kang :p


  2. on September 25, 2017 at 3:44 am Mario Jackson

    A legacy comes to an end


  3. on September 27, 2017 at 9:21 am Fifa Online 3

    Hi there.. greeting from us!


  4. on February 18, 2019 at 2:36 pm Ray

    I am also fond of this short verse in the end of Blade Runner. It showed us that a man-made creature may have the capacity of aethestic. In blader runner 2049, there was a glass wall (25’45’’)between human and the clone, but it was fragile.



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