In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream Over the Nickel Slots

Dig this trip-tastic NASA footage (via MetaFilter )

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It seems there is probably a greater message in the fact that the sound generated by the data in this depiction of the Cassini descent on Titan sounds an awful lot like a bank of slot machines going in and out of phase with each other, but fuck it. It's hard to hate the most reliably psychedelic arm of the government when they convert untold billions in cool things like this.