Starship Asterisk*

Yes, beautiful.
But ruined by some burk who wandered into the middle of it with a torch !

yea I know, , , seems to be a habit these days

Nitpicker wrote: Simply

OK

Chris Peterson wrote:arbitrarily narrow (approaching infinitely narrow),

Exactly, nail and head are words that come to mind.

alter-ego wrote:

MalcolmP wrote:... I'm with Chris though : tomorrow is another day, , ,

That's turning out to be one long day

My days follow the laws of quantum mechanics, they come in discrete packages.
Goodnight.

I dont think I am that desperate, and he has more important matters to deal with than emails from me, 'twas just idle curiosity, sort of by way of conversation, but Bystander's interpretation of my way of conversation did try my patience I must admit :( So perhaps I need to look inward and sort out ...

detect pure wavelengths of light I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "pure". Light (more generally electromagnetic radiation) is a continuum. We dont want to start talking about Boltzmann leading to Planck do we ? That could take a wee bit of time :) Then there is synesthesi...

Oh, just the two !
For some reason I had the idea that they would have a team of helpers,
a little bunch of elves beavering away in the background on our behalf

Either way, it does not look like they are to be tempted out to say what they think of all the 'noise' !

some general charts . . . I tried to and got confused. Ah, ok, I thought of including a chart, just as well that I didnt :) hehee. Well I used to use electronics, and spacecraft telecommunications, to pay my bills so ask away and we'll try to un-confuse you ;) (Caveat, but I was never a teacher and...

bystander wrote:

MalcolmP wrote: who . . . of the Day

The APOD Robot is an automated script

Errr, yes,
but someone chose that pic and put it in the queue of pics to be shown.
And I didnt imagine a team of Shakespearian monkeys wrote the blurb ??

Well, radar and radio and TV antennae use even larger wavelengths than cellphones. Sorry not true UHF TV = 500 - 900 MHz -ish depending on country celphones 800MHz thro' 1700MHz to 2500MHz depending on country and 3G, 4G etc. Microwave ovens ~2500MHz Radar all over the place but typically above (sh...

Nitpicker wrote:

xmetman wrote:or maybe NGC1 - is that the sun?

And NGC 1 is a spiral galaxy in Pegasus. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NG ... 80%931000)

and APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050819.html

Hi, Beyond's ref. over in the Mashup topic drew me here like a moth* to a flame :) I've not seen Lucy, but you said " , blurry due to a lack of resolution, " Yes that is the main problem, cell phones are using radio/tv type frequencies with a wavelength of the order of tens of centimeters ...

'Twas my older brother who taught me how to knit. Gosh ! Interesting, and all these years I have thought I might be unique :) heheee ! Though I doubt there are many of us :) and then I woke up this am. wondering if I should have said "op.cit." instead of "ibid." in post # , oh, ...

There are indeed a surprising number. I wouldnt want to start another conspiracy (simulations in 'somewhere else') would I ? but your use of "They" could be construed, , err, Muuhhhaahaaaa :) It's late over here I'll have to go to bed soon, where is my clove of garlic , , but I will return...

Thanks all, for stimulating and chuckle generating conversation etc. without wishing to cause offence, but Copyright ? wha?? who cares ??? , , more too much time on hands m'thinks, lol! but as long as it contributes to preserving this universe , , , :) :) I think i may have got a bit of my own mashu...

Someone has too much time on their hands. You could always take up knitting, you know. Ha haa, been there done that , are you sitting comfortably :- a long long time ago, just after the war (shhh dont mention "The War" ) there was not a lot of money for holidays ( nor much else but that i...

I had similar thoughts : 1) What the ,,,, someone has too much time to spare then 2) at least it shows that the Hubble operators can keep most of the targets centred most of the time but finally I realised the real purpose 3) It has been slipped into the program as an economy measure :- If/when we s...

Nitpicker wrote: Plenty of coal

Thank you but we have plenty of our own, in the increasingly dis-United Kingdom, just that we find it cheaper for others to do the digging :-!)

"ah, that's better!"

much

Nitpicker wrote:Not quite..

Not quite what, you lost me there, that amber nectar must be getting stronger

Quite a small island you've got there.

For heavens sake what are you on ?
Quite a big ecological disaster continent you have there

Yes I knew about the Parkes telescope, thank you

goodby

Oh yes, commonwealth, that rings a bell, never knew what it meant, nor for that matter what a dominion etc was ! but hang on, wasnt one (or a few?) American thingies commonwealths? Massachusetts eg ? "Not to mention that monarchy is my favourite form of ridiculous government." Quite so ! &...

New to me too (you ex-imperial thing). I think this is what she (geckzilla) was talking about: http://store.steampowered.com/app/72200/ Thanks, £6.99 (GBP) wont break the bank ! ---------------//------------- she (geckzilla) ooops ! how was I to know ? ! It would be impolite for me to ref all unkno...

I'd never considered "edge on" as a description for M31 before, so I suppose you confused me, which made me try to quantify its edge on'iness : ~22 deg. oh dear, no problem, no not you, I meant geckzilla's comment "It wouldn't be edge on. I mean, our view of Andromeda isn't edge on, ...

And from M31, the Sun would appear to the right of the centre of the Milky Way, assuming our Galactic North Pole was pointing upwards. In 2.5 million years, the Sun only completes about 1% of its orbit around our galactic centre. Thanks Np. And : Thank you everyone, very interesting and thought pro...

The view of the MilkyWay from Andromeda/M31 In another forum we were considering a wide field pic that a member had made of the MilkWay, we identified a little fuzzy 'blob' in the right place for M31, extending a little to the right and left, and I proposed that if there was an alien on a planet cir...

Thanks Owl, (I was editing my post to say "(total) pics" when you were replying ! ) thanks, good thread, this nice one, by Alson Wong, is the sort of thing I had in mind, but even that does not show the usual polar tracery. http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a120/alsonwong/2013%20Total%20So...