Starship Asterisk*

This thread just will not disappear into the long forgotten pages and it’s nothing except depressing for me every time I see that it has once again been resurrected. April 20 2010, Thank you Owlice. I live in Los Angeles and once in a while here; if one is lucky, you can see a moon through the haze :(

Mercury’s gravitational attraction + the fact that it’s closer to our sun changes the whole ball game as it were. It makes perfect sense though I never even considered the sun in the equation :? (why would I want to do that) thanks for explaining that with showing the escape velocity difference Chri...

There are no planed missions to land a probe on its north pole ???

Hmmm only diffraction spikes on one and not from the smaller or more distant one also?
So much for my photographic know-how.

I’d really like to see us going here real soon, and why not. New mission plan proposed to search for life on Europa examiner | Aug.29 2012 Jupiter's moon Europa has long been regarded as one of the most likely places in the solar system where some form of life could exist outside of Earth. Evidence ...

Marie lets splurge no more of this 1966 stuff, bring us some new champagne, the freshest stuff you’ve got. Marie, don’t look down, don’t look. Waiter there are snails on her plate, there are so many snails that you can’t even see the food.

And if it were a 1,600 chunk of a neutron a star or solid lead, I think not. There must be a mathematical equation to figure out how much mass would be needed to keep a person from jumping right off but anyway, man alive those black mambas can really move The snail may seem slow at 0.03 mph but i be...

Aside from this idea being true or false. It states that the asteroids average diameter is approximately 1,600 feet How big or how much mass is needed to hold a person down, I mean it seems like if you were standing on something that small you could literally jump off of it into space and float away...

Cool pictures, sure wish we could go there real soon

If one is the type of person that looks for any reason to drink to get drunk, such as ( The Rams won, lets get drunk / Dam the rams lost, might as well get drunk ) There are ads o-plenty for people planning end of the world parties. Personally I don’t drink or do drugs; well there was that weed thin...

Doum said
OUCH! You must be wishing for it to happen then.

Are you kidding me, Darth mother-in- law has taken over my universe and my wife is stuck in its orbit, seriously, I welcome any asteroid that wants to take this planet out with open arms.

Does the idea of the world coming to an end on December 21st 2012 scare you? Or how about a meteor taking out the whole planet or a 1,000 year nuclear war, does that scare you? If so ha, imagine this IF YOU DARE
My mother-in-law lives with us

Its settled then, if you’re from Mercury’s capital, the city Mercuria. Then you are a Mercurite / Mercuritian

Thanks for taking the time to post those links bystander, Interisting comment made at the end of it, well to me anyhow an ideal location to build a colony. “People joke about it, but it’s not so crazy, really,” said David A. Paige, a professor of geology at U.C.L.A. who calculated the crater tempera...

As per the story today on yahoo news / enough ice on Mercury’s permanently shadowed Polar Regions to encase Washington DC / With a surface temperature that would melt lead the poles still harbor ice, just, wow. Off subject for a moment with regards to what our Mars rover ( I love that thing ) has re...

This thread is 100 % depressing. I live in So.California / Los Angeles

Hats off to all involved, The sky crane and the whole 9 yards went off without a hitch, This landing “ all pre-programmed “ was just about the coolest thing ever and I am so proud / happy / excited and in awe of what we have accomplished. Now looking forward to some great science, how long till that...

Thanks everyone, you have explained the matter perfectly. Looking up metallic hydrogen now, I’ve never heard of anything like that even existing so I can’t wait to try / I mean get a shot at trying to understand how that can happen to hydrogen.
Good day all

saturno2 I am Disappointed in the fact as much as anybody I know of, 42,000 plus years to get to the nearest star. I dislike that fact so much that it actually hurts and I can only wish that I would be around in the future of say 500 or 1,000 years from now: if that is far enough into the future? Wh...

Just wondering / I’ve read that the earth gains around 1000 tons a year to its mass from space dust and so it stands to reason that Jupiter being much larger than earth attracts much, much more space dust. Thereby it should also stand to reason that since this has been going on for as long as Jupite...

Oh yes, I sure love this post and all it’s threads. What did I see in the sky tonight / last night? Well it was a most peculiar it was, there were actually and unbelievably four distinctly different points of light in the Los Angeles night sky; imagine that! I’m thinking that perhaps one of them mig...

I don’t recall the meaning of the word weather anymore, what is that stuff anyway? Moreover so far as I can recall we don’t even have seasons here in Southern Cal.
Note to self:
The comments on this thread sure make them sound pretty, must see.

How can i edit the name of this post to something different and what should it be called?

I keep asking

I was coming out of the brewery one day when I stumbled into that voluptuous St Pauli girl and she had a skirt so short you could almost see her Anheuser Bush. I had a feeling this was going to be my Lucky Lager so I poured up to introduce myself to her and said that my name was Michelob, Bud that I...