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by Boomer12k
Tue May 01, 2012 9:00 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (2012 May 01)
Replies: 22
Views: 5406

Re: APOD: Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (2012 May 01)

Three Higgs Bosons walk into a saloon in the Old West... The bartender said, "We don't serve yer kind here".... The Higgs Bosons drew their six shooter and shot the up the saloon.... When the dust and debris settled, the bartender said, "Well belly up to the bar boys, name yer poison!...
by Boomer12k
Tue May 01, 2012 8:55 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (2012 May 01)
Replies: 22
Views: 5406

Re: APOD: Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon (2012 May 01)

Suggestion: Next time have him sit in a nice, quiet office and tell the information.....it would have been nice to hear what he had to say....as it is..... :?


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by Boomer12k
Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:10 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Aurora Over Raufarhöfn (2012 Apr 30)
Replies: 25
Views: 6348

Re: APOD: Aurora Over Raufarhöfn (2012 Apr 30)

nstahl wrote:
Boomer12k wrote:I am sorry, but with a picture like this it is hard not to get religious...
Not for me it isn't. The monuments are man-made. The aurora is natural, and well-explained, not supernatural.

But they did not know that back then....

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by Boomer12k
Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:28 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Aurora Over Raufarhöfn (2012 Apr 30)
Replies: 25
Views: 6348

Re: APOD: Aurora Over Raufarhöfn (2012 Apr 30)

I am sorry, but with a picture like this it is hard not to get religious...

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by Boomer12k
Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:40 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Evaporating Blobs of the Carina Nebula (2012 Apr 23)
Replies: 48
Views: 7281

Re: APOD: Evaporating Blobs of the Carina Nebula (2012 Apr 2

The APOD picture, "Carina Nebula Panorama from Hubble", dated 2009 May 24. Has the entire span of the Great Nebula in Carina as 300 light years....not 30 light years....


Nice close up picture....

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by Boomer12k
Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:18 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Flowing Barchan Sand Dunes on Mars (2012 Apr 22)
Replies: 19
Views: 5056

Re: APOD: Flowing Barchan Sand Dunes on Mars (2012 Apr 22)

It would be cool to see several shots over time and see the movement....

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by Boomer12k
Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:09 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Antares and Clouds (2012 Apr 17)
Replies: 33
Views: 6628

Re: APOD: Antares and Clouds (2012 Apr 17)

Must be some hellacious Solar Winds....

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by Boomer12k
Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:11 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Fata Morgana: A Possibly Titanic Mirage (2012 Apr 15)
Replies: 24
Views: 16934

Re: APOD: Fata Morgana: A Possibly Titanic Mirage (2012 Apr

Would such a phenomena be visible at 11:40 at night, when the Titanic struck the iceberg?


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by Boomer12k
Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:40 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Conjunction Haiku (2012 Apr 07)
Replies: 26
Views: 5048

Re: APOD: Conjunction Haiku (2012 Apr 07)

Universe Haiku

Wonderful Universe,
Large and Great,
Wonders upon Wonders.

6-3-5 or so-ish...but then I am a creative person who doesn't have to follow the mold.... :D

hmmmmm...."Music of the spheres"...Poetry of the Spheres???

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by Boomer12k
Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:35 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Aurora Over Iceland (2012 Mar 21)
Replies: 14
Views: 4693

Re: APOD: Aurora Over Iceland (2012 Mar 21)

Looks like Alien Doomsday....That is coool...

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by Boomer12k
Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:37 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Scale of the Universe Interactive (2012 Mar 12)
Replies: 82
Views: 437735

Re: APOD: The Scale of the Universe Interactive (2012 Mar 12

They forgot KING KONG.....TEN TIMES AS BIG AS A MAN!!!! :D


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by Boomer12k
Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:07 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 1579: Trifid of the North (2012 Mar 09)
Replies: 13
Views: 2856

Re: APOD: NGC 1579: Trifid of the North (2012 Mar 09)

Great picture....looks like a Dinosaur head to me....


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by Boomer12k
Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:43 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)
Replies: 15
Views: 2941

Re: APOD: NGC 2170: Celestial Still Life (2012 Mar 06)

Looks like a Tongue sticking out in the middle.....:P

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by Boomer12k
Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:07 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Jupiter Unplugged (2012 Mar 02)
Replies: 18
Views: 4947

Re: APOD: Jupiter Unplugged (2012 Mar 02)

It looks like the music staff with music notes.....Music of the Spheres?

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by Boomer12k
Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:28 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A (2012 Feb 26)
Replies: 43
Views: 7174

Re: APOD: The Mysterious Rings of Supernova 1987A (2012 Feb

I think the Rings could be from earlier ejected material than from the actual explosion itself....a hiccup, then a blast....and the hiccup gets shoved ahead... Possible???

There also seems to be some "dust" of to the left....


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by Boomer12k
Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:01 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Sailing Stone in Death Valley (2012 Feb 22)
Replies: 46
Views: 8119

Re: APOD: A Sailing Stone in Death Valley (2012 Feb 22)

Why don't they just post someone out there for more than a day, and do the observations?
by Boomer12k
Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:39 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Message From Earth (2012 Feb 19)
Replies: 35
Views: 6559

Re: APOD: A Message From Earth (2012 Feb 19)

50,000 years.....um....OK, wake me up when the alarm goes off.... :D


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by Boomer12k
Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:47 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: At the West Wall of Aristarchus Crater (2012 Feb 17)
Replies: 29
Views: 4469

Re: APOD: At the West Wall of Aristarchus Crater (2012 Feb 1

Aristarchus , or more correctly Aristarchos (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος, Arístarchos; 310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE), was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in Greece. He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center o...
by Boomer12k
Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:25 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Meropes Reflection Nebula (2012 Feb 15)
Replies: 18
Views: 4089

Re: APOD: Meropes Reflection Nebula (2012 Feb 15)

Stunning!!!!

Striations? I thought they were God's Brush Strokes.... :D

Good Job!

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by Boomer12k
Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:34 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Rosette Nebula (2012 Feb 14)
Replies: 29
Views: 7479

Re: APOD: The Rosette Nebula (2012 Feb 14)

Just how I like 'em....young and hot.... :D

Yeah, I know....my bad...


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by Boomer12k
Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:25 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars (2012 Feb 12)
Replies: 9
Views: 3626

Re: APOD: Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars (2012 Feb 12)

WoW! Awesome picture. Allot like another recent one.... :D

Been too cold and cloudy here to get out the telescope, but Orion is one of my favorite places to look at....

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by Boomer12k
Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:26 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: At the Core of NGC 6752 (2012 Feb 10)
Replies: 63
Views: 10818

Re: APOD: At the Core of NGC 6752 (2012 Feb 10)

This is a random TANGENT function I did on the old C64. I inserted a spinning view as it placed the dots. I was trying to make "galaxy" like patterns. But it shows that randomness can make the same strings and loops and circles as in the Cluster.... It did not matter what permutations I ap...