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Hi Rigelan, I believe coincidences are almost always declarations of the unseen power which rules not only the universe (universes) but also puts into our minds that which will declare that power to us .. that power also allowing for "time and chance to happen to all men" but also governin...

May 17 2008 - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Logarithms are somehow like math, eh? (I'm a high schooler only.) "...the coincidental fact that the number of inches in a statute mile is approximately equal to the number of astronomical units in one light year." (from an artic...

Also then the sun instead of 'burning' nuclear fuel may be creating it - the core growing larger and larger until it truly explodes - the cause of supernovas (?) Is there some way to measure the growth of dense matter at the core? As the matter grows, gravity would increase? Do we have instruments c...

Wow, Harry, marvellous, thanks! I see the strength of plasma as support for my rivers of stuff flowing and creating whirlpools which are the galaxies. Perhaps that's why you pointed me to the reference? If the Galaxies were created from the 'outside', by currents of a plasma like energy rubbing bord...

I just read about a (to me) recent discovery of normally invisible superheated gas connecting galaxies which would not be considerered 'close neighbours' .. the author (in Scientific American I believe it was) was speculating that this gas might be part of the Dark Matter factor.

Astro - how's the weather in Old Orchard Beach? Sounds like a beautiful place.

Sun dogs and halos, among their other functions and attributes, act as weather indicators telling of a big change to come very shortly. I seem to remember both colder, wetter weather, and dry warmer weather following. Perhaps I'm confused about the effects though .. but they do signify major change.

Hi Astro, Yes, nice to chat with you again, also. I was temporarily 'absent' only because I didn't see anything on apod that stirred my curiousity. From my point of view at this time we can't see time, but we can see its effects in my famous 'trailing spirals' of spiral galaxies which appear to be '...

Sputnik - "I have yet to see an (understandable to me) explanation (even at a conceptual level) that satisfactorily describes what they actually are, how and why they might be formed, what their essential characteristics are, what their interactions with other celestial objects might be, and h...

Apod featured a square galaxy some time ago . . there seems no limit in Creation's creations. I've never seen a galaxy 'sag' like this one, and suspect it's sagging towards another galaxy. Too bad we don't have a larger picture. Actually .. the abrupt edge fits my 'time funnel' theory .. and I think...

Einstein - Bah Humbug - 10 years to correct his errors - my errors will NEVER be corrected. (That's why I gotta rely on grace, eh)

Too high a level eh Bystander! Ha Ha Ha. I'll bet you couldn't even see the skeletal fish :!: As far as turning the picture, I consider it far too dangerous to tip my monitor sideways :arrow: Let's just be cool, eh 8) Drink some Kool Aid :mrgreen: Drop the tirade :twisted: Let the past fade :idea: r...

Hey you whoever wrote the blurb for this 'dark tower' photo you have some weird imagination, get outside more often, along the riverside or somewhere .. it looks to me more like a skeletal fish. I also wish whoever writes the blurbs would stop writing as if apod viewers were 8 year olds. Thanks for ...

Watch - Your space canoe would have been quite a trip. I had the vertigo experience in a canoe on perfectly calm water at about 2 p.m. on a beautiful summer day .. clouds and blue sky reflecting into the mirror of the river which was about a mile wide, with me in the centre .. talk about sudden and ...

A retired vet!? You'll be able to attend to the dragons when they get here .. give them a nice, big needle full of hydrogen and sulpher.

Doum - I suggest you stop telling people were to go .. and go there yourself. I've said my last on this thread.

Maybe you're a dork, Doum. I'm out of this conversation.

What is beyond the expanding, contracting, or stable universe depends on whether you consider the water which will be discovered beyond the stars and galaxies outside the universe or inside it.

Well Azut .. there are many differences of opinion so it's not worth getting upset if someone disagrees. By the way .. this aircraft you're working on, it wouldn't be a disc, would it, controlled by thrust vectoring? With a spinning outer edge for stability and glide ability in case of loss of main ...

Azut - I'm a very tolerant, forgiving and understanding person .. but you're way overboard with your rants .. this is a science forum, not a group session for self-obsessed paranoid schizophrenics .. perhaps you should try a mental health forum to exchange your opinions about the mind, and concentra...

Oops - how'd I get the wrong url? Thanks, Orin.

John D - you and me agree about something!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Marvellous. There really is hope that you'll come to see Phobo's crater grooves as being steam vent.

May 4 [correct link applied - makc]

Let's have some real images thanks ... I guess everyone has to have toys, though.

I agree with Noel, Azut, that you can say things in an abrasive, and perhaps even non-intelligent way. Software is engineering. I think what has happened is that you have been attacked by one astronomy buff, as I was attacked by one exceptionally rude person here (but only one), and you have grouped...

Sue - I didn't even know about EPOD - but earth I see everyday - outer space is a little harder to get to. I prefer going to APOD, but will also start to check out EPOD, not as often though.

Two dragons flying toward earth carrying the 6 6 6 .