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- Mon Oct 04, 2010 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rolling Across the Rocky Plains of Mars (2010 Oct 04)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1963
Re: APOD: Rolling Across the Rocky Plains of Mars (2010 Oct
This looks more like a series of beaches from an ocean or a lake that was higher at one time and subsided over many millenia. I've seen this sort of thing near Great Salt Lake in Utah and the pacific coast just north of Santa Cruz.
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Discovery Rollout Shadow (2010 Sep 22)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3892
Re: APOD: Discovery Rollout Shadow (2010 Sep 22)
I find this picture a bit hard to believe. Look at the shadow of the shuttle on the clouds. It is so straight and undistorted it appears that the shadow is being projected on a very flat, uniform screen. How could the clouds behind the shuttle be that uniform?
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)
- Replies: 238
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Re: APOD: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)
I find it really hard to believe that with today's linguists nobody can recognize the text and translate it. How could a written language of only 500 years ago be now lost? The writing looks vaguely like the scripts I saw in Burma during the tour I was on for the 1988 solar eclipse.
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Equinox and Harvest Moon (2010 Sep 24)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2939
Re: APOD: Equinox and Harvest Moon (2010 Sep 24)
I will never forget a harvest moon I saw in October (or is that a hunter's moon?) at a high school football game I was attending many, many years ago. I was a student at Solon HS in Ohio and we were the away team at West Geauga HS. We visitors sat in the visitors' stands on the side of the field awa...
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: An Airplane in Front of the Moon (2010 Sep 29)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 24303
Re: APOD: An Airplane in Front of the Moon (2010 Sep 29)
If you look closely at the purported "fake" picture you can see the engine exhaust strung out behind the plane and covering the moon's surface. I don't believe this pic is faked.
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: An Airplane in Front of the Moon (2010 Sep 29)
- Replies: 112
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Re: APOD: An Airplane in Front of the Moon (2010 Sep 29)
The photo of the airplane in front of the moon inspired me to try to post a picture I took of an airliner passing in front of the sun AND moon during the diamond ring stage of the total solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 in Baja California. However, I cannot post it until I have made 10 posts to this fo...