Ringmakers of Saturn PDF - Patrick Crusade

Appendix
Equating a "body having physically inherent mobile capability" to
the term "vehicle" possibly may be considered as too abrupt a step in
nomenclature development. The potential problem lay in various
connotations for the word. Multiple connotations do not lead to a
focused idea concerning what is meant.
To illustrate, an automobile has inherent mobile capability; and
reference to an automobile as a vehicle is quite common. On the other
hand for example, an ape also has inherent mobile capability; but
reference to an ape as a vehicle is uncommon in the sense that an
automobile is a vehicle. That the former is inanimate and the latter
animate is not the intended distinction. The significant distinction is
that an automobile does not occur directly in Nature, whereas an ape is
regarded as a direct product of Nature.
For purpose of the subject matter, the term "vehicle" is meant to be
something not occurring directly in Nature, but rather something
occurring as a by-product of Nature. Early introduction of "vehicle"
as a descriptor is considered by the author to be, at worst, premature
but not an inaccurate usage.
The reason for the belief in descriptor accuracy is independent of the
non-personal photographic evidence presented herein. In 1971, the
author had the exciting experience of having sighted and photographed
a mobile slender body fitting the specific properties of the two
bodies shown later in Plates 5 and 6. This sighting at the time was
experienced by the author's wife and daughter. Through binoculars,
this body appeared to be large and incorporated fine aerodynamic
features at the fore and aft exhaust ends. That is, the ends did not
terminate squarely cut-off as would result when a pole is sawed in two.
Rather, the ends were rounded much the same as are cowls of jetengine
intakes. Bulbar streamers were emitted from locations along the
body. Control over these streamers was demonstrated by the modulation
of their activity, and also by introduction of additional streamers
which moved with definite periodicity.
Drawing upon many years of aerospace experience, the author
has no reservation about labeling the sighted body a vehicle. The
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