Pinkie Takes Over (A) World, At Last

[beamjockey]

An entertaining way to introduce Titan news, from Betty Nguyen on a CNN program called Livefrom on Friday:

"You can count on the fingers of just one hand the planets, or planetary bodies, on which mankind has landed a spacecraft.

"And today, from all indications, we reached

[dramatic pause, with appropriate gesture] --the Pinkie

Comments

[rmeidaking]

If Titan is the pinkie, what is Eros? The Fingernail? :-)

Or isn't she counting Eros?

[jrittenhouse]

I don't know about landing 'on' Jupiter with Galileo...

[del_c]

Saw "2 comments" and was going to add comment #3 to the effect that "I think Eros counts as a planetary body. In a way that Jupiter, strangely, does not, depending on your definition of 'planetary body', so maybe Titan is still the last finger."

And commenters 1 and 2 had already made those points. What do I do now I'm here? Oh yes, depending on your definition of 'finger' we've already used up the first hand.

[kevinnickerson]

Am I that unusual? I count:
1-Index
2-Middle
3-Ring
4-Pinkie
5-Thumb

Or maybe it's just a culture thing. Nguyen is not a WASP name like Nickerson

[kevinnickerson]

So if you're signaling the bartender for another drink you hold up your thumb? If you wanted two, you'd hold up your thumb and index finger?

Interesting.

[rmjwell]

Today, the pinkie; tomorrow... the big toe!"