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- Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: UT: Solar Storm Heading Our Way
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1595
Re: UT: Solar Storm Heading Our Way
15:00 UTC, which works out to 10am Friday for me in Minneapolis. Maybe it will last into the evening?
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:21 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Dog Days of August
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1003
Re: Dog Days of August
Ann wrote:Elvis died in August
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- Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Galaxy NGC 474: Cosmic Blender (2011 Jul 26)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4809
Re: APOD: Galaxy NGC 474: Cosmic Blender (2011 Jul 26)
neufer wrote:"Dance of the seven veils"...
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"Sweet Holy Moses" Sam
- Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:41 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Darkest Sky: The Two Galactic Hemispheres
- Replies: 2
- Views: 974
Re: Darkest Sky: The Two Galactic Hemispheres
That's beautiful, thank you!
Are there locations at sea that might provide a more light-free sky?
Are there locations at sea that might provide a more light-free sky?
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:08 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2011 July 22-28
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5385
Re: Recent Submissions
On the Lions Head Copyright: Erich Meyer Lion's Head is a mountain located in Cape Town, South Africa, between Table Mountain and Signal Hill [Coordinates 33°56′05″S 18°23′21″E] . Lion's Head peaks at 669 metres (2,195 ft) above sea level. The peak forms part of a dramatic backdrop to the city of C...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Twombly Crater?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4007
Re: Twombly Crater?
In two years Harvey Ball will be eligible: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Day-template.svg/250px-Day-template.svg.png Harvey Ross Ball (July 10, 1921 – April 12, 2001) was an American commercial artist. He is recognized as the earliest known designer of the smiley, which be...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:55 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Interesting image; what's making the shadow?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 523
Re: Interesting image; what's making the shadow?
I'm pretty sure that it's a shadow from another cloud out to the right and the line just happens to line up with the summit; taking the picture from another 20 meters to the right or left would create a noticeable parallax. Rays like this can be quite impressive, especially when they reaches all the...
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:19 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Some may like this story...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1091
Some may like this story as well
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/TheJungleSinclair.jpg/200px-TheJungleSinclair.jpg The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the life of the immigrant in the United States, but readers were more concerned with ...
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Some may like this story...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1091
Re: Some may like this story...
Area of All of Australia 7,617,930,000 m 2 - divided by - 400,000 new residents per day for 4 years (the length of time Cynthia and Linda have been recruiting) _______________ leaves an average 13 m 2 per individual to Live their Lives (And what of the Australian population in 2011 of 22,651,808, or...
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:47 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: The Wrong Stuff
- Replies: 3
- Views: 503
The Wrong Stuff
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- Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:39 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
- Replies: 1303
- Views: 1104917
Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?
The ISS! I went out to the roof to do some binocular observing, immediately saw a bright (-3) star but cataloged it as an airplane, and didn't realize until a couple minutes later what it was, when it came into my field of view. I watched it go into Earth shadow over Kentucky, 1150km away! http://ww...
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:22 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Core
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1321
Re: Core
Just a quick check...there's no conceivable technology that would ever allow us to touch the Earth's core....right?
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Views from Cassini at Saturn (2011 Jun 13)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4809
Re: APOD: Views from Cassini at Saturn (2011 Jun 13)
The more I watch it the more I really like it! It reminds me of early silent films: grainy and scratchy, and the time is sped up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLBn9KK2Ss0&NR=1[/youtube] Includes Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, a choral and orchestral work that he was inspired to wr...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:32 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: All National Academies Press PDF Books Free to Download
- Replies: 2
- Views: 470
Re: All National Academies Press PDF Books Free to Download
Oooh! So much to read! Anybody have any suggestions?
- Mon May 30, 2011 6:03 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
- Replies: 453
- Views: 115394
Re: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
(Spurred by discussion of flies hitting the rear window at light-speed, here)
When a fly hits a windshield, what's the last thing that goes through its mind?
Sam
When a fly hits a windshield, what's the last thing that goes through its mind?
- Mon May 16, 2011 4:51 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble (2011 May 15)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7431
Re: APOD: The Sombrero Galaxy from Hubble (2011 May 15)
The faint inner dust lanes may be tilted somewhat in relation to the overall plane of the galaxy, since the "top" of the galaxy appears to be dished somewhat yet the faint inner dust lanes can be easily seen below the near edge of the main dust ring. It looks to me as if those inner dust ...
- Fri May 13, 2011 8:18 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: CICLOPS: GOLF SECTOR 6
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2390
Re: CICLOPS: GOLF SECTOR 6
I actually managed to get a hole-in-one on my second or third moon!
Shame, because then I kept trying to relive my former glory.
Did anybody notice that on Mimas your ball will be destroyed
and you will be penalized if you try to go over Herschel Crater,
i.e., Death Star's superlaser?
Shame, because then I kept trying to relive my former glory.
Did anybody notice that on Mimas your ball will be destroyed
and you will be penalized if you try to go over Herschel Crater,
i.e., Death Star's superlaser?
- Sun May 08, 2011 5:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shadow of a Martian Robot (2011 May 08)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3565
Re: APOD: Shadow of a Martian Robot (2011 May 08)
Maybe they're talking about the Turing Test link: http://www.turinghub.com/ ?bystander wrote:Fred??? Guess I missed something.
- Thu May 05, 2011 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: 50 Years Ago: Freedom 7 Flies (2011 May 05)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3334
Re: APOD: 50 Years Ago: Freedom 7 Flies (2011 May 05)
I'm reminded of how relatively little we have humanly traveled from Earth in the 50 years since that historic flight. I am saddened by the overwhelming challenge of star trekking outside our relatively lifeless solar system (besides Earth of course). I wish that I had a solution that would take us ...
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:04 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13758
Re: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
Three cheers for Owlice!
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:58 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13758
Re: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
Uh, absolutely one of the most bizarre images I have yet seen on APOD and it comes with no explanation, only a poem. I'm not a scientest, just an enthusiast. What the heck is this picture? Why does Tycho look like that? What is the blue ring? How big is it? Are those dust clouds? Cmon man, don't ju...
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:08 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: HiRISE Updates (2011 Apr 27)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1959
- Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Shmoon?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1523
Re: Shmoon?
The slowest speed any two objects can come together is determined by their escape velocities. In the case of the Moon, the escape velocity is 2.4 km/s, and that is the slowest possible collision. Could you explain why this is? The case of an apple falling gently on Newton's head argues against havi...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Virgo Cluster Galaxies (2011 Apr 22)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3074
Re: APOD: Virgo Cluster Galaxies (2011 Apr 22)
NoelC wrote:...noise...
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Sam
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Monsters of IC 1396 (2011 Apr 25)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2833