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by ckam
Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:02 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Just out of curiosity
Replies: 14
Views: 4913

BMAONE23 wrote:Ckam linked this in another thread

a nice size comparison

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yvNhw888XmM& ... ed&search=
the one I linked to had quick zoom-back in the end, afair ?
by ckam
Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:54 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: My home computer is dead
Replies: 1
Views: 1187

My home computer is dead

well... broken. now show me your compassion, would you please?
by ckam
Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:51 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Does velocity really dilate time?
Replies: 11
Views: 3843

yep, unstable particles running in circles at near-light speed tend to live longer than their friends at rest. Nereid once claimed that you yourself can make this experiment at home using cosmic rays. edit: I have just noticed "acceleration" in your post. well, circles have to go, but cosm...
by ckam
Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:35 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?
Replies: 8
Views: 4805

For the person that uploads the daily photo, it's a simple thing. that won't be me, baby. ...I also have normal hosting... so why don't you put there some php script like: <?php header("Content-type: image/jpeg;"); readfile("http://www.astronet.ru/db/apod/last_apod_image.html");...
by ckam
Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:16 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Nova over IRAN (APOD 19 Feb 2007)
Replies: 10
Views: 1626

Re: telescope

Mackc wrote it is not centered there, but it is in field of view, I think: Sorry sir to put up an argument here but the equipment shown on the picture is likely the quality instrument that could find a zit on the moon. so? are you saying it is zoomed in up to 1 arcsec? how do you know that? p.s. no...
by ckam
Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:35 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Photo Of The Day for 156 million myspace users?
Replies: 8
Views: 4805

if it's so simple how come you can't implement it?
and. get off myspace, get yourself normal hosting.

p.s. can you use tinyurl in image tag source?
by ckam
Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:15 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Stop the silly topics
Replies: 10
Views: 4363

youre unbelievable, this time it was different link, but your excuse for ignoring it is... just... great. I simply admire you. really. this is useful skill to use in business communication, I wish I could be 1/10th as good as you are in it.
by ckam
Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:05 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Stop the silly topics
Replies: 10
Views: 4363

harry wrote:The link took me around in a circle.
Harry, you are great master in ignoring the obvious, so I will yield to you, and simply re-post it:

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by ckam
Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:04 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Can we please stop merging threads?
Replies: 34
Views: 52234

I'm not sure that accidental missed clicks are causing many of the duplicate topics. They have created the culture of people never caring about making extra topic. hopefully new visitors will notice the picture they have a question on is already being discussed. They will only notice if they will b...
by ckam
Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:03 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Favorite APOD
Replies: 208
Views: 3096279

not an apod but check
by ckam
Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:49 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Can we please stop merging threads?
Replies: 34
Views: 52234

bystander wrote:remove the newtopic from inside the thread.
unfortunately, my powers are not quite enough to edit files on this server.
by ckam
Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:23 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Can we please stop merging threads?
Replies: 34
Views: 52234

bystander wrote:Why have a "newtopic" button if it's not to be used?
It is to be used, once per APOD. Also, other astronomy-related questions were permitted, only not about same APOD.
by ckam
Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:53 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Can we please stop merging threads?
Replies: 34
Views: 52234

in my opinion this whole problem of duplicating threads arose from designer mistake, namely, putting these two buttons together: http://asterisk.apod.com/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/post.gif http://asterisk.apod.com/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/reply.gif I mean what were they ...
by ckam
Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:25 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic:
Replies: 16
Views: 16230

Hallelujah

Wget, bookmark, or put latest APOD image on your desktop, website, blog, etc easier than ever before (currently redirects to mirrored one). All bow to almighty Oleg Bartunov!

Image
by ckam
Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:23 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Why the sky is dark at night, possibly an answer.
Replies: 4
Views: 2188

Apache/1.3.27 Server at xmm.vilspa.esa.es wrote:Not Found
The requested URL /external/xmm_science/gallery/images/XDS_20040601a.jpg was not found on this server.
by ckam
Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:09 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: How fast can we go?
Replies: 352
Views: 84260

will you people ever stop chewing same gum over and over and over?
by ckam
Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:40 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Stop the silly topics
Replies: 10
Views: 4363

Where are the moderators when you need them?
out to lunch, with cops and firemen.

any way...

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:roll:
by ckam
Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:26 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: How fast can we go?
Replies: 352
Views: 84260

cosmo_uk wrote:harry:
You can use maths to do what ever you want
Am I right in thinking you don't believe in relativity????

Oh dear!
harry does not believe in almost anything.
by ckam
Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:20 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Trajectory of fireball?
Replies: 1
Views: 1341

by ckam
Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:46 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Hipparcos catalog density
Replies: 11
Views: 4230

hey kovil what are you smoking there?
112k stars at 8000 LY or less. That's most excellent !!
to refresh your memory, our galaxy is at least 10 times bigger.
by ckam
Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:38 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: link gurus? star and galaxy lists
Replies: 15
Views: 6664

....editing this post to let you know that i no longer need any math help 8)
by ckam
Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:01 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Hipparcos catalog density
Replies: 11
Views: 4230

kovil, unfortunately all ~112k of stars in the database are no further than 8k ly. according to a plan, the map will only have angular zoom, with every step showing more and more faint stars.