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Thank you, Orca, for that extremely thoughtful input. Thanks to you too, Chris, for your answer to Orca. I agree with all of the points from both of you. What I can't figure out is why an army of robots would want to colonize the Milky Way. What would be the point? Do Androids Dream of Electric She...

But maybe the bigger issue is that technological intelligence in a biological life form is just so fragile. I have been reading Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy over the past few years. Highly recommend!! Has anyone else here read it? Here's an applicable excerpt from Death's End for this thr...

Very lucky guy Indeed. I am curious to hear whether the APOD editors had heard of the shooting before choosing the image for this day? SInce Sundays are typically "reruns" and the process for choosing what to rerun may be to a degree automated at an earlier time, I think it is possible an...

"I just cannot help but see one the the Star Wars Imperial guards" (sp0ck) I see a panther jumping across a volcano. “Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton... I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by... If you use your imagination, you can see lots ...

aildoux wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:38 pm Great post as usual. Still, APOD should have kept this one for Valentine's Day coming up soon.

Yes but it was also a great reminder to get things in motion for the 14th!
Maybe Hallmark's Big Romance industry has gotten the APOD editors...

Am reminded of xkcd's "Angular Diameter Turnaround": https://xkcd.com/2622/ https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/angular_diameter_turnaround.png [Title text: Thank you to Katie Mack for teaching me about this effect, and to Janelle Shane for describing redshifts as 'like galaxies sinking into a po...

My favorite part about this was that they thought it was a near-Earth asteroid: On April 13, 2020, the Near-Earth Object candidate C14VXL1, reported by the Catalina Sky Survey, was posted to the Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page. Follow-up observations from four distinct observing sites, precovery...

I love this APOD! Once tried to create something similar but never got around to figuring out how to process a year's worth of photos. Congratulations Marcella!

I saw these lights while driving through northern Iowa and was able to pull over and get a few pictures. They're not great but I was happy they showed the red and green.

neufer wrote: JERRY: This you're not goin' to believe. The NYPL says that I took out Tropic of Cancer in 1971 and never returned it.

KRAMER: Do you know how much that comes to? That's a nickel a day for 20 years. It's going to be $50,000

Ya' sure it wasn't Tropic of Capricorn?

Lots of information in the text today - I now have a better understanding of: EM waves and their interactions with charged particles, syndynames and synchrones, and particle sizes. Thanks!

bystander wrote:...[W]ould have heated the upper atmosphere enough to glow red for several hours at roughly 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit -- about the temperature of an oven broiler element -- killing every living thing not sheltered underground or underwater.

0 ...these things existed (this could be posted in multiple threads): 1. Quasicrystals 2. Fibonacci word (note palindromic properties) 3. this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDShfQ72blI which I wholeheartedly endorse (hello Mandelbrot) (Related story: http://theconversation.com/to-the-ends-o...

bystander wrote:This is what we use

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Are you saying that Oklahoma gets snow about as often as a Venus transit?

I remember this podcast as addressing many of these probability issues: http://www.radiolab.org/2009/jun/15/.
Sam

Never mind, forgot they should be Greek names. And underworldly.

neufer wrote:minor sixth

Tristan und Isolde?

bystander wrote:

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 23#p184381

neufer wrote:England’s King Richard III found under car park

Real snake on a plane:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 000ft.html

Discussion reminds me of this: --
Sam

Sam The Carter´s Music can be classified as "concrete music" or not? As far as music can or should be classified, Carter's music is not: Musique concrète uses a combination of electronic and acoustic instruments, whereas all of Carter's music is written for traditional instruments and no ...

I've been meaning to share this for quite some time, but now it is with a heavy heart that I do: composer Elliott Carter died yesterday at the age of 103 (article here ). I first met Mr. Carter and his music in 2006 as a student at the University of Minnesota, and his music has played a fundamental ...

One wouldn't want to send humans for all sorts of reasons Such as? Du aber, Mensch, wie lang lebst denn du? Nicht hundert Jahre darfst du dich ergötzen an all dem morschen Tande dieser Erde ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvut01GTHeg [You, Man, how long do you live? Not even a hundred years may yo...