Starship Asterisk*

How is Kepler like your old Timex?
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasa-k2 ... ini-planet

On the animation in the "latest flyby" link it almost appears Enceladus is could be self-propelled by its jets. Of course it's not undergoing propulsion but it will garner a lot of attention years from now if NASA could JET to Enceladus and Titan and return LIFE.

Do you think [Springfield Heights Institute of Technology] has an on-line degree available? Sounds like the place for my BS in physics. :doh: You were Principal Kahoutek's mischievous little boy weren't you. They say time runs faster has you get older. In my case I think the clock has a different p...

Where the ancient mariners saw crosses, I wonder what a new age astrographer might see. Constellation "Bart" ? :wink: Bart already has a Comet named for him. Bart's Comet <<After Bart sabotages Principal Skinner's weather balloon, Skinner decides to punish him by having him help with his ...

Today's superlative image is a sight us Northerners have to travel far to witness in person. I like the contrast of the dark horizon and bright sky. But as Art pointed out - not all constellations are experienced alike by all individuals. Just as the stars of the Southern Cross can be made to stand ...

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"Pasta"-cles after washing up on the shores of Pentapolis being fed by a group of poor Libyan fishermen of Asian descent?

henrystar wrote:Hey! What about an APOD showing a COMPLETELY socked-in night! Maybe even fog!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140823.html

Night Fog

It is actually ironic that we haven't even documented all the forms of life on our own planet but many of us spend endless time in curiosity about what we aren't likely ever to see.

Go wonder!

I think these are just upside down trees like Ann's giraffe. Plants have a quite a different symmetry than animals. Makes you wonder we differ so much?

Will our first encounter with alien life be vegetable rather than animal? Friendly or dangerous.

Namibia sounds like quite the place for the Days of our Lives – and the nights!

If not cows, how about a lot of bull? I'm sure, Neufer, your talents can find something appropriate. Bull's-Eye on Mars Revealed :!: At least it looks like a Bull's-" Eye "...but possibly it's a source for methane. I think that it's from the other end Art. Possibly 'The Moo rtian'"?

I love how you can see right through the "eye" of the elephant.

http://www.waid-observatory.com/ic1396-2012-10-27.html

It appears the "pupil" has moved. Has the dust cloud moved significantly between images? Maybe just a higher resolution?

This image is a nice reflection on shadows, distance and time. I like its composition and applaud the photographer's insight and imagination to capture light in varieties of intensities and dimensions. In black and white, its "color" is left to the eye of the beholder.

The idea of a quantum of time is very enticing and it seems aptly named. If chronons exist it's tempting to speculate, as you say, their relationship to mass and energy. That brings to mind another formula which is quite famous. Is it possible to define a "second" simply by the rearrangeme...

Wow. Is this what our sky would look like if time was quantized? It would have quite a different look. Thanks for the unique perspective!

It is an interesting object worthy of much discussion; classroom or web / language or science.

Better keep up or you could get left in the dust.

It may be more like "What did you see in the sky this morning?" but it looks like a good week overall for sky viewing.

http://earthsky.org/tonight/use-summer- ... -milky-way

Looks like one of the next rovers might - shoot back.

I think the next robotic craft sent to Mars perhaps ought to be a portable drilling rig. Pick a few likely spots and try going down 100 feet, if necessary. Actually, I'm thinking that NASA will become interested in drilling deeper on lots of Solar system bodies. But for Mars, there is a practical b...

Why are they so different?

Really – No rille on the upper half of Charon? What gives or didn't on top? At least they look like lunar rille.

Groovy.

In September 2008 NASA's Phoenix lander discovered a snow variety of virga falling from Martian clouds. >> I wished they'd spell "virga" as "verga". Some might misread it and think Phoenix had a really unexpected scoop. (Of course those bacteria might need some help on those rea...

I had no idea that slippery slopes themselves were so controversial. Let alone the other ethical metaphors listed on the link. Maybe I'd better stick with attempts at a humorous approach like, "Yea. They are ski trails. Just look at the jump on the left..." Are they really dust devil trail...

Bacteria on Mars would have a unique composition from anything that Earth may have evolved. I would think we would be able to tell a Mars bacterium from an Earth bacterium easily once returned to Earth. Colonizing Mars with Earth bacteria is an ethical dilemma which will need debated prior to human...

Before you start contaminating the place – better blow it up first. At least then the microbes might be able to mutate in peace and warmth.