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by mesinik
Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:46 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Name the Apod Robot
Replies: 45
Views: 10078

Re: Name the Apod Robot

Could RAPOD work? It's amazing how different connextions people have with astronomy in their minds. If talking about RAPOD; the starting point for it was BITOD, because it is "nice style", isn't it? I wanted to find a rhyme for it so if someone will write odes about APOD (and astronomy) t...
by mesinik
Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:19 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Force from Empty Space: Casimir Effect (2010 Jan 03)
Replies: 23
Views: 10728

Re: A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect (2010 Jan 0

provides evidence that the universe will expand forever. A nice story, but this goes a bit too far imho. First, how could we be so sure all the laws of nature will be absolutely same forever? (You can call me a barbarian and pirat, because I say it in plaintext while many others are making just fun...
by mesinik
Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:35 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Name the Apod Robot
Replies: 45
Views: 10078

Re: Name the Apod Robot

Could RAPOD work?
by mesinik
Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:47 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)
Replies: 23
Views: 11332

Re: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)

One possible bet (not so bad at all): what if the Saturnian scientists built a big quantum supercomputer in the northern areas, inside of a hexagonal fridge; the clouds keep running along the cold front created by this refridgerator... like any self-respecting cloud will do under certain circumstanc...