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You are absolutely right, it is a linier equation - I stand corrected - thanks.

The 0.5 degrees of arc (it's not 2 degrees) is simply there is 360 degrees of viewing angles and a Full Moon will cover 0.5 degrees of the 360.

Sorry, it is not a linier equation. The Moon covers on average 2 degrees of arc (or is ir 0.5?). If Mars was at the same distance as the Moon it would measure 4 degrees - that would be a linier measurement. For the distances of the rest of the planets to equal 2 degrees arc, the equation would have ...

And the BIG ones can drop the power grids in LA and NY.

The white outcrops contain a high concentration of salts which removes all doubt water play a roll in their formation. The data is still being analyzed to determine how long and how deep the water pooled. some location suggest the water wasn't ever more than a few inches deep while examining crater ...

The plasma filaments are going in both direction, they traverse along the magnetic lines away from the Sun's surface then return, only the hottest of the ions break free to become part of the solar winds. If the magnetic line "Snaps" or breaks, the result is a solar flare with the ions loo...

The actual definition of a "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a given month, it happens once ever 18 months or so, it has nothing to do with the Moon's color ("colour" to our Canadian and European friends).

I like this one also.

Most of the Sun's activity at the surface and in the aureole is forged by the strong magnetic fields. Nearly all movement travels along them.

That was Kirk’s trophy, not Scotty’s. I don't recall Scotty getting any action. :cry: Back to the subject at hand, one way to test the theory of worm hole travel would be to observe a massive object fall into a black hole then meassure the energy released and the gain in mass of the black hole, if c...

Dennis S wrote:Re: Aurora from Space, Don Pettit's.
What is the nearly perfect large radius circular cloud pictured in the foreground?

Its not a cloud formation, its a crater

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001213.html

Star Wars and Star Trek are just too cool to be wrong! Especially since Star Trek like Force Fields are now a reality! I don't think I would want to hang out close to a plasma beam. I'm not a Trek Head or a Treky but here is the basics on Star Trek's version of Warp Drive if any one cares. On a she...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03568

This picture may not be as pleasing to the eye as some of the APOD but I sure find it fascinating.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

More info

If all goes well we'll have a probe there in a little over ten years, set to launch early 2006.

It would be no different than our solar system; the Suns heliosphere protects us via the solar winds.

sylvester wrote:Very near the top right hand corner, almost on the diagonal, is a comet-like streak.

What could this be?

http://www1.nasa.gov/images/content/137 ... s_full.jpg

This might explain what it is.

"There once was a lady named 'Bright', whose speed was much faster than light. She went out one day, in a relative way, and came back on the previous night!" Praps gravity appears instantaneously everywhere, without having to travel to get there, because it exists in dimensions beyond our...

Experiments using massive orbiting pulsars should reveal an answer in a few years as to the speed of gravity, so far, faster than C looks like the most probable outcome.

The atmosphere is also thinner at the higher elevations, it's simple particle separation as would be seen along a shore line, the smaller particles are dispersed farther than larger ones. These have moved much less keeping the edges more pristine.

If they moved, their edges would be much rounder.

Mars dust storm:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990809.html

There is no atmosphere on Dione, Cassini may get closer on a future pass, it requires too much fuel to make anything other than small corrections or changes in it's orbit.

The terns are sometime misused, or the term nova is used as a general word for all nova types.

Nova: exploding star producing a dwarf of various types
Super Nova: creates a neutron star
Hyper nova: creates a black hole

Is it the small hook above the 2 vertical yellow stars just to the left to the bright yellow star?

It has been proven that the speed of information can be breached, here's a wonderful read on the subject.


http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/g ... _limit.asp

I'm saying it is possible that the speed of gravity could be faster than the speed of light. In the String Theory the gravity model has the graviton as an open ended loop, to over simplify, it means part of gravity exists outside of our 4 dimensional world allowing it "violate" the laws of...