Starship Asterisk*

My father was drafted into the Vietnam War, although he never fought in it. I guess he is considered a veteran.

Wow, just watched "The Illusion of Time" on KCPT. Very interesting and informative.

You guys should consider doing debate. Many replies with quotes and evidence-this would make a great debate! And owlice, you've been like a judge this whole time, criticizing statements and everything.
Who knows; this could work!

What I don't get, though, is how an aurora can appear over the middle latitudes! Is Earth's magnetosphere (or something like that) being destroyed?

No joke, I saw the northern lights a copule nights ago.

Anyway, how can a waterfall be stagnant if the water is constantly falling? Or do you mean the top of the waterfall is stagnant?

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montylc2001 wrote:
I just hope I'm alive when New Horizons reaches Pluto

I just hope that New Horizons is alive when it reaches Pluto

It's incredible how long it takes for spacecraft to reach far places. It'd be lucky if it wasn't hit by an asteroid or something on its way.

muneca1289 wrote: if a star shines different colors what does that mean? i have been trying to figure that out.

This usually means poor atmospheric seeing conditions. It's called "twinkling" when a star appears to look different colors and becomes fainter and brighter.

Nah, I didn't I'm always looking up as well and it seemed strange to me, I hadn't seen it before. I'm assuming it was venus, because it was definetly the brightest thing in the sky I'll tell you. Venus is in the early evening sky in the west . If you saw something in the east, it wasn't Venus. The ...

Hey, cool APOD! I've always wanted to see a comet, although I missed my chance with Comet Garradd...

Still, the picture with the comet and the two star clusters is amazing!

My favorite APOD would be the one titled "A Summer Night's Dream".