Starship Asterisk*

Thanks bystander! for finishing my sketch... you're a person after my own heart!

Our space shuttle is wonderful and kind of like a see-saw don't you think! up and down... up and down... etc

Whatever is happening to up up and away!

And... To infinity and beyond! 8)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080314.html

"Blasting, billowing, bursting forth with the power of 10 billion butterfly sneezes... !" - Ride My See Saw

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080228.html... according to APOD, ISS orbits every 90 minutes

Here is a nifty ISS tracking site http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

What a cool idea! Better be careful though... I learned a long time ago that when you come up with good ideas you often get assigned the implementation task!

Very entertaining and well written post!

Please, ladies and gentlemen, Will you please realise how few of the "answers/replies" above relate to my initial question and how many "answers/replies" are just wandering away? To quote myself:"How comes sulfuric acid is called volatile in this text?" (Unquote myself...

One thing I hope that discoveries from the LHC and other future particle colliders will lead is better understanding how the gravitational force is created. Until we learn if this fundamental force can be controlled by some artificial means, long-term space travel will remain very difficult to atta...

Again, the science is way over my head, but thankfully the information is presented in such that I can get the big picture... The collisions are uncovering or revealing "old or existing" particles that we previously could not detect and this 'ground breaking' :wink: research has been advan...

The March 2008 National Geographic article where the picture appeared is a good place to start. The God Particle : At the Heart of All Matter. The hunt for the God particle. Thanks very much for the link!!! What a well written and interesting article... :) Interesting title too... Leon Lederman's c...

... A tiny peep hole into an engineering sketch of the cosmos creation origin... I was hoping to get some comments/discussion regarding the implications of cosmology from particle accelerators. It has been 'projected' that the collision of the subatomic particles is likened to a minute window into ...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp31cy.html <<This new tool could probe the atom's nucleus and offered applications in medicine and chemical research. It launched the modern era of high-energy physics. But it also launched the era of "big science.">> Thanks for the link! I wi...

Seed the atmosphere with the right bacteria then sit back an wait a few million years - see what happens. Space and time are too restrictive... It is clear we will eventually need somewhere else to planet :mrgreen: or else change our habits due to the habitat destruction/construction and afternoon ...

I was intrigued by the following text in the explanation to the APOD:- "...the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans". I'm curious about who else might have created it apart from humans! :) Interesting how often the 'thought' of space al...

Image manipulation is relative to the subject and matter. If the image has historic or legal witness aspects... Of course, it has to be untampered. If an image has artistic or scientific out-of-our-visual-range-information... it makes for a more interesting subject (subjectivly of course) to do some...

"HIGGS IN SPACE!" ?!

All I have to say is...
phe-nom-ena... na... naaa... na-na-na
phe-nom-ena... na-na-na-na
phe-nom-ena... na... naaa... na-na-na na-na-na na-na na-na na-na naaa-na!

Interesting take on particle accelerators... Thanks for the links!

Looks like Piranesi's glass was not only half empty... his glass was broken

That should prove to be a beautiful image indeed... 8) The red coloring of the moon during the eclipse is from the ring of sunsets around our planet. I believe the red sunset phenomenon is called Rayleigh scattering.

Of course the science is way over my head, but I know this is an unprecedented facility and I am excited about the possible research findings so I can only imagine the physicist’s anticipation. Larger accelerators have historically revealed more information… I can't help but wonder what an 'earth si...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080225.html 8)

... A tiny peep hole into an engineering sketch of the cosmos creation origin...

when serpents collide...???

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neufer wrote:

emc wrote:I did date myself didn't I... but I happen to know that I am five years younger than neufer. 8)

At least when "I" date myself I do it with astrological precision.

November 3, 1951 - "It was a new day yesterday - it's an old day now"

bystander wrote:Sorry, been trying to get back, myself, to no avail.

That's OK, we may have more help sneaking around in this forum than initially meets the eye.

Cool! I was thinking about WOW with the (1.) response choice for the space alien encounter. How cool is that... 8) maybe neufer is a space alien with receptor skills beyond our typical own. Hey, maybe that helps explain his [astrolognomical] precision capability?

Hey, bystander, if your a space alien there are a few trillion things I need to go back in time to correct... can you help me transmutate out?

I did date myself didn't I... but I happen to know that I am five years younger than neufer. 8)