Starship Asterisk*

I & family went down to view what was supposed to have been the final Atlantis launch [STS-132] on 14 May of last year. ... Oh and.....you know those lobster-tanks at front of seafood restaurants where you can pick your own for dinner? http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/26345466/sn/1890016888/name/5%...

I was at the STS-134 liftoff, the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, on the NASA Causeway. The launch was amazing, got some good photos from angles different than the ones on the NASA Kennedy Space Center Media Gallery webpage http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/index.cfm . But, Endeavour went i...

disappointedinu wrote:last trip ??? expecting more INFO!!!! I click, only to "LAst TRAIN to clarksville" 0_o

Rick-rolling is alive & well!!!

. . . Three-and-a-half years later, it was struck by a deer, and totaled. . . . You now have me imagining deer flying around like little missiles just looking for cars to strike. I expect the deer's opinion about the nature of this encounter was somewhat different... Being a Southern country boy al...

billinger wrote:Hmmm... What is before car...? Is it a part of Sagittarius constellation?

Before car was horse, Kemo Sabe. Look small, ergo, must be Equuleus.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.....and I am truly appalled & ashamed of myself.)

I thought this was really neat. It certainly wasn't the most musical piece I've ever heard, but after listening a few times I could create a mental image of what is going on. Astronomy is so visually based that we often leave out those who are visually impaired. This is a great innovative way for a...

In the historic first manned mission to Mars, two astronauts were charting the Martian surface. "Just look at that," one radioed back to Earth, "How beautiful this alien landscape is, untouched by man." At that point he was cut off, his radio communications knocked out by unknown...

Came here to say....a few secs before the end I'd swear I heard the words "Well, THAT sure didn't come out as well as we imagined it might."

\Charlie Parker
\\in grave
\\\spinnin'

I know this is pretty crumby of me but....
What foods these morsels be!

If man becomes a space traveler; the Crab may be something he doesn't want to get too close to. :wink: 'f you've been keeping up, most everything we find or has been found, we don't wanta get too close to! Welllllll.....might want to, but doing so is decidedly ill advised. Our two main problems vis...

Astronomer #1: So anyway the cop pulls me over and asks if I realized that I had just run a red light. So I said that I did not see the light as being red, because it must have blue-shifted as I was approaching it. Astronomer #2: And he let you go? Astronomer #1: No. He gave me a speeding ticket ins...

Honestly, WinkyDink is where I learned that wet rawhide stretches -- that's perhaps the most prominent memory I carry of the show. Yep - captured by Indians, they had him all tied up & whilst preparing some nefarious prelude to Winky's demise, I drew the requisite bucket wherein he placed his bi...

Neuf.... Sometimes I wonder did you & I grow up next door to each other....and maybe you watched TV thru our window. Tom Terrific (I luv'd Manfred the Wonder Dog), & now Skiles & Henderson (among many others). I'll bet you (too) can name all the characters on Buster Brown, Howdy Doody, S...

OK....talkin' about misreads, at first glance I thought the lower right corner (poster) said 'Infidelfest'.
(Like with rusty traps, one of the first things to go is the eyebolts.)


\no....u prolly don't get it
\\it's ok

Must do badder....must do badder....hmmm. Badder....o jeez, think...think. I read this as "Must do bladder....must do bladder...." and thought TMI! :shock: :D *L.O.L.!!* [For Real] & Funnier thing is, I read that on a page refresh, JUST AFTER DOING THAT VERY THING! Now there's you som...

Must do badder....must do badder....hmmm. Badder....o jeez, think...think.
OK......

Did you hear about the astrophysicist who needed a new car & bought a Quantum?
Every time he looked at the speedometer he got lost.

Now THAT was one hela-astrophotography project! Mega-kudos to Messrs. Risinger & co.
Nominate for APOY (Year) !!

Well looky there....a kindred spirit. Thanx for havin' my back, B.
Just for that, here's one, specially for you:

A quantum mechanic's vacation
Had his colleagues in dire consternation.
For while studies had shown
That his speed was well known,
His position was pure speculation.

Well go ahead then. Apparently EVERYbody knows how to tell 'em better'n me.



\never expected such critical masses
\\or something

Whoo hoooo -- let's go for it then!

Why do nuclear physicists often have trouble concentrating on one project?

\bar raised
\\ever so slightly
\\\i luvz da slashies too!

Since the bar's holding (at a low point): :twisted: Two astrophysicists are discussing their research in a bar one evening when a drunk sitting in the next seat and listening in turns and asks in a very worried voice, "What was that you just said?" "We were discussion stellar evolutio...

If what hits the planet are meteorites, what do we call the ones that miss?

owlice wrote:S*H, I nearly posted that very joke!!

Go ahead....you prolly tell it much better than me.

HST In The News.... The New York Times, among other papers, recently published a new Hubble photograph of distant galaxies colliding. Of course, astronomers have had pictures of colliding galaxies for quite some time now, but with the vastly improved resolution provided by the Hubble Space Telescop...

owlice wrote:Scientists Decode the First Message From an Alien Civilization...

Which for some reason makes me think of the eternal question:
"Why are all the instruments searching for intelligent life pointed away from Earth?"


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