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- Sun May 11, 2014 9:23 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon... (2014 May 11)
- Replies: 46
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Re: APOD: Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon... (2014 May 11
how does it not infill with dust?
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: False Color Illusion (APOD 17 July 2007)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6299
Not an illusion
This is insidious stuff. The corollary from this demonstration is that human senses are unreliable, and then the conclusion usually drawn is that you can NEVER trust ANY sensed information, and then the only real facts are ones which are measurable in a randomised double blind trial using laboratory...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:35 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn (APOD 16 Oct 2006)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1942
Saturn (APOD 16 Oct 2006)
Anyone know what the strange whispy streaks are which are not rings? They look almost like aurorae 
- Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Voynich manuscript discussion: 2005 January 22
- Replies: 280
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voynich "sun"
The sun in the middle also has crescents like moons - but the lunar (annual) calendar has 13 months, and this is clearly 12/24... So it looks astronomical/astrrological/alchemical, which topics were all the same thing at the probable time of writing Funny that we now know that a bodyclock protein fl...
- Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: strange streak over Australia
- Replies: 2
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straight line
I saw some straight lines like this last weekend on the coast - I think it depends on the angle you view a narrow thermal front - but the ones I saw lasted almost an hour rather than just a few seconds... The properties were similar - darker "shadow" through layers of cloud - there were th...