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- Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:14 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
- Replies: 1303
- Views: 1135230
Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?
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 :(
- Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ice on Mercury
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34971
Re: Ice on Mercury
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...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ice on Mercury
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34971
Re: Ice on Mercury
There are no planed missions to land a probe on its north pole ???
- Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:21 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Dwarf confusion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 573
Re: Dwarf confusion
Hmmm only diffraction spikes on one and not from the smaller or more distant one also?
So much for my photographic know-how.
So much for my photographic know-how.
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:01 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Next stop Europa
- Replies: 0
- Views: 269
Next stop Europa
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 ...
- Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:37 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 'lasso' an asteroid
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4596
Re: 'lasso' an asteroid
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.
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 3:13 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 'lasso' an asteroid
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4596
Re: 'lasso' an asteroid
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...
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:36 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: 'lasso' an asteroid
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4596
Re: 'lasso' an asteroid
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...
- Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:18 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Curiosity: Mars Science Laboratory
- Replies: 277
- Views: 259254
Re: Curosity day 129
Cool pictures, sure wish we could go there real soon
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Mayan Calendar - Era 2012 - Galactic Alignment
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14769
Re: Mayan Calendar - Era 2012 - Galactic Alignment
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...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:16 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Mayan Calendar - Era 2012 - Galactic Alignment
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14769
Re: Mayan Calendar - Era 2012 - Galactic Alignment
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.![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
- Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Mayan Calendar - Era 2012 - Galactic Alignment
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14769
Re: Mayan Calendar - Era 2012 - Galactic Alignment
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
My mother-in-law lives with us
- Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ice on Mercury
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34971
Re: Ice on Mercury
Its settled then, if you’re from Mercury’s capital, the city Mercuria. Then you are a Mercurite / Mercuritian ![Neutral :|](./images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif)
![Neutral :|](./images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif)
- Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:51 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ice on Mercury
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34971
Re: Ice on Mercury
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...
- Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:10 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ice on Mercury
- Replies: 21
- Views: 34971
Ice on Mercury
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...
- Sat Sep 15, 2012 11:44 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
- Replies: 1303
- Views: 1135230
Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?
This thread is 100 % depressing. I live in So.California / Los Angeles ![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:34 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Curiosity: Mars Science Laboratory
- Replies: 277
- Views: 259254
Re: Curiosity: Mars Science Laboratory
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...
- Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:18 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Spase dust ads to earths mass
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4957
Re: Spase dust ads to earths mass
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
Good day all
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:43 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Travel to Stars
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2138
Re: Travel to Stars
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...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Spase dust ads to earths mass
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4957
Spase dust ads to earths mass
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...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
- Replies: 1303
- Views: 1135230
Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?
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...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:04 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1107805
Re: Weather!
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.
Note to self:
The comments on this thread sure make them sound pretty, must see.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:28 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: just beer and more beer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 185
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:21 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Yahoo coment thread
- Replies: 3
- Views: 224
Re: Yahoo coment thread
I keep asking
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:52 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: just beer and more beer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 185
just beer and more beer
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...