Edwin Flannon
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AI/Cyber Grad Student @MSU 🏔️ | Weights, Biases & Breach Prevention | Teaching smarter, safer AI | Check out my blog↓ tinyweights.dev
AI/Cyber Grad Student @MSU 🏔️ | Weights, Biases & Breach Prevention | Teaching smarter, safer AI | Check out my blog↓ tinyweights.dev
![Encke writing in the 19th century:
But with a power equal to a thousand eyes, how great the change! An orb of surpassing beauty, encircled by two broad flat rings, and engirdled by no less than seven moons, comes up from out the deep distance to greet the astonished beholder. No person ever beheld this wonderful system for the first time without a burst of admiration.
When we connect with the personal inspection of the Saturnian system the facts with reference to its mysterious arrangements, the stability of these two immense flat rings, some two hundred thousand miles [320,000 km] in diameter, upon the exterior, separated from each other, and from the body of the planet, each revolving about the same axis on which the planet rolls, and with a velocity a thousand fold greater than the speed with which the parts of the earth's equator are carried by its diurnal rotation; when we imagine the diversified scenery which is presented by these rings, and by the moons, some rising, some setting, others waxing or waning, some going into or coming out from an eclipse, their vast proportions, the rapidity of their motions and changes, - the mind is overwhelmed in wonder and astonishment.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qnwrertmdznkkexzktkweuvb/bafkreiar434mnajudx73dzgj3c5ikw6ue56i6u2ndjirs4zjw5l7jq2d2m)
