Starship Asterisk*

Andy Snow wrote:You call it a mountain, but I swear I see the profile of a pointy-nosed dog in a cloak. As long as we are making stuff up, that's my contribution. BTW, I love APOD. Keep up the great work.

You beat me to it Andy, I see the dog too. To me, it is also "sitting".

Seti is bogus. Radio signals blend in with the background radiation "noise" after 1.5 to 2 light years distance. This means that nobody is watching "LUCY", or listening to old radio shows, even in the Proxima Centauri system. So ANY intelligent radio signals from even nearby star...

Here's my problem with our current space program. We've already demonstrated that we can send a spacecraft to anywhere in the Solar System. We're talking about yet another trip to Europa and Jupiter, to a near-Earth astroid, building a moon base, and a manned flight to Mars. To what purpose? Suppos...

Must have lots of MOTOCROSS on Europa!!!!

Or more likely, SNOWMOBILING!!!!!

HEY, SNOWMOBILE MOTOCROSS!!!!!!

Looks like a painting including brush strokes. Awesome!

Like looking down into an eye of a hurricane!
Also reminds me of a Mandelbrot set, or actually the Julia Set as it is more spiral.

I say we start a "SAVE PHOBOS" club. We collect money starting now, then when we go there we strap on rockets to boost its speed! Over many times of doing that, (and this is why I suggest starting now, because it will cost a lot to do it by the time we get there), it will climb to a higher...

Looks like a HOLE in the Earth!

"TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!"

It looks like a horse's head with a mane. The open area with the blue star is an eye.
Cool pic.

Another observation. It reminds me of Magnetic lines. If you took 20 small disk magnets, put them under a piece of paper, threw filings on them, I bet you would see a similar structure. Filings would gather in-between and along the magnetic lines causing "clumping"-like structures. The loo...

I disagree with the non-random distribution conclusion of the Article. I include two pictures, of a Tangent function. The Straight Tangent is uniform, the Changed tangent had RANDOM functions inserted so angles change, just like a Universe in MOTION, and it shows very similar structures to the pictu...

Uh, is it just me, or is "Duck and Cover" NOT GOING TO COVER THIS ONE????

Ammonia?
Well, at least when we get out there, we won't run out of window cleaner!

Too much science fiction in the science these days.
I know...I know... "today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact". But really the only Alternate Universe is of the imaginary kind! It is a delusion of "wishful thinking". My opinion.

Looks like a crack in the space-time fabric!

The smooth middle reminds me of a Lathe. I wonder what causes that...

JUST PLAIN AWESOME!
M42 is one of my favorites!

Always reminds me of the old record albums. Saturn's Rings must play a lot of songs!

To be that old, they must be very stable stars, right?

Second "ripple" from the right looks like a BOB HOPE caricature in profile.
First ripple looks like the top of an alligator's head.
The whole thing reminds me of the Fox Fur Nebula.
Awesome Pic.

Almost would make you believe in DRAGONS!

Look at all the galaxies in that picture! Awesome!

Looks like a large balloon kitty!

On Dec,21, 2012 the sun is supposed to cross the galactic equator. And thus, Doomsday! Supposed by whom? Certainly not by anyone with the least bit real knowledge of astronomy. The IAU defines a "galactic coordinate system", according to which the galactic equatorial plane by definition p...