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- Tue May 23, 2006 8:48 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: Resolved: Bugs? Problems?
- Replies: 248
- Views: 37052
Sounds like another ideopathic version of the Curse of Bill. Most people who followed Bill's advice and got all their sofware from a single vendor, i.e., Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Office, get used to regular inexplicable behavior from their computers, plus weekly security patches (not...
- Sun May 21, 2006 6:43 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Yep! We're F*cked!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9324
- Sat May 20, 2006 10:23 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Yep! We're F*cked!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9324
What utter rubbish! LINEAR, NEAR, NEO and a zillion other amateurs and professionals have already charted the orbits of SW-3 and its various fragments, and none is going to come within several million kilometers. The author is a psychic quack. God help you if you have time to read even just that one...
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:11 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: No vacuum? (2006 April 26)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3847
- Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: No, the Antarctice ice sheet is NOT shrinking.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13897
But! how much is man compared to the earth cycles and sun cycles. I do not think anyone knows. I have seen research indicating that a single major volcanic eruption dwarfs the annual man-made production of greenhouse gases, and there are many other factors at work, both natural and man-made, such a...
- Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: No, the Antarctice ice sheet is NOT shrinking.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13897
I do not claim to know to what extent human activity contributes to global warming, but global warming and rising sea levels are well documented, along with melting of Greenland and Antartic ice (the only big sources of rising sea levels) and more extreme weather. A nice general interest summary app...
- Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:50 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: NEAR objects
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2832
Long period comet detection
Hey, I sent my question to NASA and got an expert reply (quoted below) many thanks to Dr. Donald K. Yeomans, NASA/NEO program manager at JPL: Long-period comets in the near-Earth space represent only 1% of the population of near-Earth objects. The other 99% are near-Earth asteroids. While comets do ...
- Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:31 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: NEAR objects
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2832
NEO methodology
Anyone ever discuss a weakness of using apparent optical motion to identify NEOs? If the initial apparition of a long-period or parabolic object was on a collision course, it would exhibit NO apparent motion and would not be detected until its change in apparent magnitude became obvious. (Anything n...