Starship Asterisk*

wasn't that long ago someone posted a fake Betelgeuse star exploding. That one quickly disappeared

[quote="ta152h0"]Do scientists, astrophysicists, and researchers play April Fool's jokes on each other and the general community ?[/quote]

I heard they sometimes drop f-bombs, too. Interesting creatures!

[quote="ta152h0"]Do scientists, astrophysicists, and researchers play April Fool's jokes on each other and the general community ?[/quote]
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Do scientists, astrophysicists, and researchers play April Fool's jokes on each other and the general community ?

[quote="bystander"][url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/09/photos_everyday_objects_that_look_like_solar_system_planets.html][size=120][b][i]The Everyday Solar System Challenge[/i][/b][/size][/url]
Slate Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2013 Mar 09
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[float=left][url=http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.515956461767509.131272.379992358697254][img]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p206x206/555279_555509114478910_105519202_n.png[/img][/url][/float]
Simon Wright is a graphic designer in Australia*. He decided he needed to challenge himself to give his brain a workout, so he created what he calls his “Solar System Challenge”: without using Photoshop or any additional after-effects (with the exception of Instagram), create a set of pictures of everyday objects that look like the planets in the solar system.

The results are pretty cool:

If you go to his [url=http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.515956461767509.131272.379992358697254][b]Facebook page[/b][/url] where he has those shots, you can see them in more detail. Click on each one to get an explanation of what it is and which planet it is. I tried to guess how he did each one before reading the description; the closest I came was for Earth, but even then I was way off. ...[/quote][/quote]

Thanks, this is fun! Jupiter is my favorite.

Good one, Anthony! :lol2: :mrgreen: :thumb_up:

I like today's APOD. It's been a lot of fun to look at all the pictures and links! :D

I particularly liked Simon Wright's Solar System challenge. But I thought that...

[spoiler]The Sun is obvious. The Earth is easy. The Moon is brilliant. Mars is obvious. Jupiter is brilliant. Saturn is obvious. Pluto is perfect. But I had trouble with Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Neptune. It took me a little while to understand that all the planets come "in the right order", so to speak.[/spoiler]
Ann

[img]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2009/12/091210173611-large.jpg[/img]

Which of these pictures is Saturn's icy moon Iapetus and which is a frying pan?

[spoiler]They're pictures of opposite sides of Iapetus! And here on Earth it's Spring only in the Northern Hemisphere, so playing April Fool's jokes is a politically incorrect act of hemispheric hegemony![/spoiler]

[quote="neufer"][quote="Mactavish"]

[c]Me wife hit me head with one o’ these.[/c][/quote]
[c]One of which :?:

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The one that made a big bang!

How about rusty paint-chipped fire hydrant tops? http://imgur.com/a/oQ7Qz

The artist on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1agz8n/you_asked_for_more_so_here_it_is_an_album_of/c8xb1nj

Sure enjoyed the APOD today, lots of fun links!

I assume the moon in the picture today is Europa?

[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/09/photos_everyday_objects_that_look_like_solar_system_planets.html][size=120][b][i]The Everyday Solar System Challenge[/i][/b][/size][/url]
Slate Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2013 Mar 09
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[float=left][url=http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.515956461767509.131272.379992358697254][img]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p206x206/555279_555509114478910_105519202_n.png[/img][/url][/float]
Simon Wright is a graphic designer in Australia*. He decided he needed to challenge himself to give his brain a workout, so he created what he calls his “Solar System Challenge”: without using Photoshop or any additional after-effects (with the exception of Instagram), create a set of pictures of everyday objects that look like the planets in the solar system.

The results are pretty cool:

If you go to his [url=http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.515956461767509.131272.379992358697254][b]Facebook page[/b][/url] where he has those shots, you can see them in more detail. Click on each one to get an explanation of what it is and which planet it is. I tried to guess how he did each one before reading the description; the closest I came was for Earth, but even then I was way off. ...[/quote]

[quote="sage"]The sun and Mars.............. tsk tsk at me :facepalm:

Happy Spring Apod! :doughnut:[/quote]
Did you miss [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130301.html]Mercury[/url]?

[quote="Mactavish"]

[c]Me wife hit me head with one o’ these.[/c][/quote]
[c]One of which :?:

[url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0030.205/--scouring-the-text-of-lamons-recollections?rgn=main;view=fulltext][size=150][i]"that Europeach won't scour"[/i][/size][/url]

[url=http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-gigapixel-panorama-curiosity-solar-days-136-149#-6.23,27.28,110.0]Mars Gigapixel PAN-orama[/url][/c]

Hmmm! Pretty good likeness! 8-) :lol2: :wink: :mrgreen: [img2]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PSWfwOEQKUM/TWVpnftDD_I/AAAAAAAAACc/5hamaqTCUkc/s1600/confused-dog-baloon-couch-dawg-12561256880.jpg[/img2]

The sun and Mars.............. tsk tsk at me :facepalm:

Happy Spring Apod! :doughnut:

prof Lewin is at it again ?

Enjoyed both April Fools images. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

And if you are Korean, Number 7 is Sun Young Moon.... :D


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Moons and frying pans are similar in appearance, because they both have a CRUST...This fry pan had a really baked-on one it appears.

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If this becomes a tradition, I'm glad we will only get 'mooned', once a year. :yes: I got 'fooled' on #5, but on #7 i recognized the orange and picked the alternative answer, which of course, is wrong also. :lol2:

Me wife hit me head with one o’ these. Ain’t been been the same since! But sure saw a lot of stars. . . billions and billions.

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