Starship Asterisk*

OK, it is a bit dated... I was afraid my candid comment would not work in today's cafe'latte' world... but space travel is time-relative right?... I mean these space aliens have got to be OLD right? unless they can transmutate time... then they would easily get the joke anyway... so I don't see a pr...

If an alien life form from a distant solar system were to approach you what would you say to him/her/it? (just for fun we can presume communication is readily possible) 1. What the hell are you doing here? 2. Welcome to earth, can I get you a cup of coffee?... beer?... some peanuts perhaps? 3. Where...

bystander,

"I don't know" is a good answer... it way out weighs anything in my "know" category. Your point is well received.

bystander,

Doesn't the lack of proof become a "no" by default? Or am I taking science too literally?

Arramon, I have to admit that I didn't know what RPG acronym'ed until I researched the internet before posting. Thought it fit the artist's Columbus Lab image pretty good though... at least for the two people working together... not so sure about the dancer though... looks a little 'laid back' to be...

Andy Wade,

Good point. I should have clarified 'life in distant solar systems'.

Czerno, If I understand your sketch, you are right... and please understand that I am not attacking you but through your post you may have sparked a friendly debate. There is no argument here as to whether there is life on other planets... the answer is no... (since there is no scientific proof). Wh...

Rocket Propelled Grenade??? perish the thought... but it would be interesting in zeroG trying to move out of the way... kinda like Role Playing in some outer space Game.

Satellite Shootdown As Early As Wed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2008 Actually two are playing an RPG and one is dancing with an MP3. It's fun to live on the ISS... How's your zeroG EHC??? It all depends on what ISS is. Hopefully not the target you alluded to... http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews...

APOD makes the internet useful. I don't fully start my day until viewling the current picture and written information. It helps to put our life in perspective over the full universe view. Thanks!! Agreed! APOD is one the best sites of the WWW :!: After discovering APOD it has become my first visit ...

neufer wrote:
Speaking of protective layers...shouldn't they be in white lab coats rather than shorts & overalls?

Actually two are playing an RPG and one is dancing with an MP3. It's fun to live on the ISS... How's your zeroG EHC???

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080219.html Don't tell my boss, but I'm finding it hard to concentrate today because I keep wanting to go back to this APOD and admire the view. It is not only breathtaking asthetically, it also sets my imagination running as to what might be discovered in the ISS Columb...

The distances alone boggle my mind... the numbers of stars and galaxies boggle it even more... and it boggles my mind a lot less to "believe" there is life other than earth... out there.

Wouldn’t you just love to have Hans Schlegel’s view from that vantage point and the experience of being out there? Yes. I would love to travel into space after it is figured out how to be done without external combustion. We have enough of that already :wink: Besides controlled explosion seems so c...

I am curious about the metal panels around the laboratory... Won't they conduct heat? Is that the intention? Looks evident from the astronauts uses of what appears to be a thermal shielding blanket.

It would be absurd and egotistic to think Earth is the only inhabited planet. I would put that right up there with quoting literature for posts. Egotistic, yes... which falls in line with our history. I don't see absurd however, until there is unquestionable evidence. Why the innuendo about posting...

Art Neuendorffer, Your literary quoting also ties into the various other APOD’s that portray the astronauts . Some of the passages you quoted made me think of how brave they are faced by the clutches of death that surrounds them like some super gigantic darkened leach from the pits of the great abys...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080218.html
It is very very very difficult not to imagine that there are at least a few earthlike planets out there with life somewhat similar to ours.

Today's image gave me a real lift. What a cool reflection! Just wondered what caused the apparent skid marks on astronaut Clay Anderson's visor? http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080123.html Now I have a clear picture of what may have caused the visor skid marks and what one preventative measure could be...

Finnegans Wake: Page 310 This harmonic condenser enginium (the Mole) they caused to be worked from a magazine battery (called the Mimmim Bimbim patent number 1132, Thorpetersen and Synds, Jomsborg, Selverbergen) which was tuned up by twintriodic singulvalvulous pipelines (lackslipping along as if t...

Here is a link to a little more info for the RSS... The structure is impressive, I can only imagine how much more it would be in person!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:STS- ... nchpad.jpg

If you really want to blow your mind think of our universe being one expanding bubble among an infinite number of other bubbles each with it's own random set of fundamental physical constants [e.g., like the 1/(137.037..) fine structure constant]. Then consider that our own bubble universe may be c...

Is the universe (space) curved such that we could start traveling in a "straight" line any direction and end at the same point we started from? I have heard this somewhere before. The problem with that is that the curved universe is expanding (and now we even know that the expansion rate ...

I'm glad to see the discussion on "gravity lense" it becomes more intuitive when compared to something more 2D like the trampoline surface. Is the universe (space) curved such that we could start traveling in a "straight" line any direction and end at the same point we started fr...

Could Epimetheus be a "chunk" from a much larger source?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080211.html