Starship Asterisk*

Aha! Even better.

Firefogg is an addon for the free software browser Firefox that can encode Theora videos on the fly, as it uploads them to a website.

http://firefogg.org/

RJN wrote: >I do not have the software myself to put these lectures in a format playable only through a web browser. There is Free Software to do the job, available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Those of us in the Free Software community prefer to use formats that are publicly defined and not under p...

The page states that rainbows and moonbows are caused by drops of water behaving like prisms. That is one part of the story. The second essential part is internal reflection in the raindrops. Double rainbows are produced by single and double internal reflection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow#...

[quote="BMAONE23"]The only problem with creating craters in sand on Earth and using this as a model for the creation of craters in the microgravity/vaccuum of space is that the craters are being created in sand on Earth and will only accurately reflect/model such an event, i.e an impact in...

I find it amusing that we can now tell how fast the earth is moving relative to the cosmos, when Relativity was born from the failure of attempts at just that over a century ago. Of course, Michelson and Morley were trying to measure the relative speed of light, in order to find our speed relative t...

I clicked on the picture, URL http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/saturnOccultation_Lawrencejpg as usual, expecting to see a higher resolution version, but: Not Found The requested URL /apod/image/0703/saturnOccultation_Lawrencejpg was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found ...

The other photos on the Japanese site show many more dust-filled craters. It would have been interesting to shoot something into the asteroid to create a new crater and watch how it forms, and then watch it fill in over time.

Same page I am talking about. They changed things, but stills are still not there. Image entitled "Almost There" now has another thumbnail [image is one post above, or click here] but there's still wrong image when you click it - it doesn't differ much from [image is one post above, or cl...

Approach and impact speed: 10.2 km/s. The times of the frames are listed with the individual images. Click on them at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/comet_images_collection_archive_1.html Pretty pictures are all very well, but when do we get the spectrograph data? When do we...

The link http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/Course/MMSS/Interactive/Ex1.3/ There is a straightforward method of _determining their [globular clusters' ] age_,... unfortunately points to a page about open clusters. Here is a more appropriate link. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/release...

Congratulations to your Photoshopper. I looked up the originals on Google Images. I recommend http://www.wga.hu/art/v/vermeer/03d/28astro.jpg 827x930 pixels http://www.wga.hu/art/v/vermeer/03d/29geogr.jpg 988x1123 pixels Both figures are clearly the same person. "...it has been suggested that t...