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This from JPL: "Shorty after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface of the tiny moon.
"All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy." -Carolyn Porco

Chad, here's a challenge for a dedicated explainer of science: explain what the heck that article about superconductivity is about. (Where's the Glue)

I vaguely understand the low-temperature superconductors, with the Cooper pairs and all, but high-temperature superconductors don't make any sense to me, and that article didn't help much.