by neufer » Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:22 pm
Indigo_Sunrise wrote:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081203.html
Today's APOD has a rather witty title. Although, I'm not sure that the sky is
happy with all that light pollution/haze(/smog? Is that word still in use??)
I remember this view from Mt. Wilson at the beginning an 1955 episode of _Science Fiction Theatre_
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Theatre
1-36 Are We Invaded?
December 31, 1955
Pat O'Brien, Anthony Eustrel, Leslie Gaye
"That which we do not understand sometimes causes apprehension."
<<A reporter and the daughter of a respected astronomer, watching the stars [over L.A. from Mt. Wilson] one evening from their parked car, see what they consider a flying saucer. A stranger appears at the door of the car saying he too saw the light in the sky, and asks if he can be given a lift down the hill into town. Later, the astronomer refuses to believe the couple saw anything more than an optical illusion. To prove the existence of UFOs, the reporter films a documentary of witnesses, while the astronomer promptly demonstrates scientific explanations for each witnesse's sightings. But the mysterious stranger has dropped off a photograph at the astronomer's lab- a photograph of our solar system taken from deep space. The stranger has disappeared, but left a forwarding address: Alpha Centauri, 4.5 light years from Earth.>>
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[quote="Indigo_Sunrise"][url]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081203.html[/url]
Today's APOD has a rather witty title. Although, I'm not sure that the sky is [i]happy[/i] with all that light pollution/haze(/smog? Is that word still in use??) :lol: [/quote]
I remember this view from Mt. Wilson at the beginning an 1955 episode of _Science Fiction Theatre_
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Theatre
1-36 Are We Invaded?
December 31, 1955
Pat O'Brien, Anthony Eustrel, Leslie Gaye
"That which we do not understand sometimes causes apprehension."
<<A reporter and the daughter of a respected astronomer, watching the stars [over L.A. from Mt. Wilson] one evening from their parked car, see what they consider a flying saucer. A stranger appears at the door of the car saying he too saw the light in the sky, and asks if he can be given a lift down the hill into town. Later, the astronomer refuses to believe the couple saw anything more than an optical illusion. To prove the existence of UFOs, the reporter films a documentary of witnesses, while the astronomer promptly demonstrates scientific explanations for each witnesse's sightings. But the mysterious stranger has dropped off a photograph at the astronomer's lab- a photograph of our solar system taken from deep space. The stranger has disappeared, but left a forwarding address: Alpha Centauri, 4.5 light years from Earth.>>
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