by apodman » Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:11 am
PaulM wrote:Today there is an enhanced photo of a flock of birds representing what someone thinks it would be like if the sky were filled with stars. ... let's get back to ... astronomy related images.
I think the subject of clusters is not only astronomy related but also of notable interest these days. And even you request "images" rather than "photographs". So maybe you'd accept this picture if the fake stars were rendered in oil paint or inserted pixels?
It appears you have something against birds. I tell him to calm down, this is about cats and horses and not him, but my friend Petey keeps chirping up a storm in protest until I let you know he's upset. And nobody can tell Petey he hasn't a right to complain.
While
this APOD might lack a degree of technical accuracy in its rendering, IMHO it more than makes up for it in (1) a visually interesting and appealing picture and (2) an original idea. The world may be running out of original ideas (depending on whether accelerating expansion can coexist with a shrinking Hubble factor), so I'm not too hasty to discourage somebody who has one - nice picture, Roger. I hope it's still okay to discuss the picture here.
P.S. If I were allowed to borrow the keys to the lab where emc is building that Universe Model, I might use the facilities to make a virtual RJN. In addition to screening for other criteria and requirements, this machine would rate candidate APODs in the categories of "Astronomy", "Picture", and "of the Day". APODs would be selected from candidates whose total scores exceeded a set threshold. Further, for variety, APODs would be selected to fill quotas for 1-, 2-, and 3-sigma variance from nominal in 1, 2, and 3 categories. IMHO (and I'm programming the beast), this picture would land comfortably in the thick of the cluster; surely we can find example APODs with much greater deviation from nominal in any or all of those rating categories.
[quote="PaulM"]Today there is an enhanced photo of a flock of birds representing what someone thinks it would be like if the sky were filled with stars. ... let's get back to ... astronomy related images.[/quote]
I think the subject of clusters is not only astronomy related but also of notable interest these days. And even you request "images" rather than "photographs". So maybe you'd accept this picture if the fake stars were rendered in oil paint or inserted pixels?
It appears you have something against birds. I tell him to calm down, this is about cats and horses and not him, but my friend Petey keeps chirping up a storm in protest until I let you know he's upset. And nobody can tell Petey he hasn't a right to complain.
While [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080906.html]this APOD[/url] might lack a degree of technical accuracy in its rendering, IMHO it more than makes up for it in (1) a visually interesting and appealing picture and (2) an original idea. The world may be running out of original ideas (depending on whether accelerating expansion can coexist with a shrinking Hubble factor), so I'm not too hasty to discourage somebody who has one - nice picture, Roger. I hope it's still okay to discuss the picture here.
P.S. If I were allowed to borrow the keys to the lab where emc is building that Universe Model, I might use the facilities to make a virtual RJN. In addition to screening for other criteria and requirements, this machine would rate candidate APODs in the categories of "Astronomy", "Picture", and "of the Day". APODs would be selected from candidates whose total scores exceeded a set threshold. Further, for variety, APODs would be selected to fill quotas for 1-, 2-, and 3-sigma variance from nominal in 1, 2, and 3 categories. IMHO (and I'm programming the beast), this picture would land comfortably in the thick of the cluster; surely we can find example APODs with much greater deviation from nominal in any or all of those rating categories.