Starship Asterisk*

Sci Am aslo had an article this month - The Liquid Rope Trick

Is it possible to follow NASA's plan to investigate this finding? I would have liked to see the look on the person's face when the download from the rover came on screen. That look and some quickened pulses has probably been a pretty common occurrence over the last ten years. Good work to all of you...

It would be interesting if there could be a correlation to the manganese content and manganese nodules found formed in the seabeds here on Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_nodule

Of course the most fun would be if it turned out to be a manganese-containing sea shell.

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote: So if M83 has moved transversely (et. al.) at some time over the15-25 million years into a position that a jet from its active galactic nucleus is pointing in our direction, could we know it? No galaxy displays significant proper motion in such a short time. It could be ...

So if M83 has moved transversely (et. al.) at some time over the15-25 million years into a position that a jet from its active galactic nucleus is pointing in our direction, could we know it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_motion It’s strange to know something is currently a position we are not...

What came first? The egg or the egg in the egg?

Comments from frequent poster commented upon and sudden desire to respond and unable to but still wishing to post support for both commentors.

Picture has a Yin – Yang characteristic. Artistic Intention? Maybe it’s universal to our galactic environment. http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/f5/a9/10072063511_s.jpg http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/1997spring/isp205/sec-3/images/cobe_dipole.gif The way the camera translates our galaxy’s linear stru...

Can I take back both my previous posts and just say, “This photograph makes me feel at one with both halves of our celestial sphere?” No need to over compare or analyze – Nicholas did his work. Thank you for this beautiful rendition of the night sky!

The picture obviously does - I meant today's photo has a Yin-Yang quality and that quality may be universal to our galaxy that the photographer could have intended.

Picture has a Yin – Yang characteristic. Artistic Intention? Maybe it’s universal to our galactic environment.

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Yes Geck - Hope your jump to the next year comes with many happy splashes !! Japetto made his leap last summer without one. (Though he usually finds himself in hot water)

Obviously the ten year old plus technology is still working fine. I’ll bet it’s a blast for those who get to operate and analyze the data. Will it be equipment failure or budget failure that does it in first? Opportunity’s mission has certainly paid off but there will be a time when NASA has to bala...

I had a feeling that might happen. I just wanted conformation that the concept that been approached by someone besides myself and had found the one reference. Didn't ever mean to espouse that I had believed it was a fact. I have never been accused of stirring the pot - only pushing buttons. By the w...

I could not conceive of why dark energy, fueled by inflation, would continue to expand at an increasing rate. I was viewing it in light of two of the forces – an effect over a given distance; then no effect. As the range of the electro-magnetic and gravitation force is infinite, wouldn't their contr...

The first question that came to mind when seeing this APOD was what could have initiated such intense star formation in these and other local open clusters. It was interesting to read that it could have been a 70 million year old supernova that initiated star formation in the vicinity of the dust cl...

Another thing that appears contradictory about space is that over large distances it is expanding but not on smaller scales. It seems that something about it must be fundamentally different. Is it the range of gravity? That point must be some sort of anti-event horizon.

And, I’d wager, they all made sense to a high percentage to your readers. Not any easy task. When posts make scents and ruffle feathers instead SkunkBird.jpg I would hope the readers and administrators realize – it’s all about education and access to communication that keep most of us coming back fo...

And all this time I thought my Dad was exaggerating!

Sufficient to say I think there could be some part of this one could fashion into a hypothesis but, for now, I’ll go back to the little corner of the box I was thinking outside of to elucidate a more sensible, defensible theory. It might take awhile. All in all, whether of the emptiness of a vacuum ...

travel singly", whatever that means As long as I was attempting to make up a new hypothesis - why not a new word? I meant single-ly (as a single unit). I thought neutrinos mostly traveled from their origination along a straight line. Their properties and history are quite interesting and I dis...

Is it possible that dark matter interacts in our universe gravitationally as the electro-magnetic wave phenomena we call light? The energy carrier of all electromagnetic radiation is the photon. It is a well understood particle. While many physicists would like to reconcile gravity with the other f...

You know, I don't know that much about quantum physics but the feeble understanding I do have is reacting strongly and telling me that idea makes zero sense. Possibly less than zero sense. :o_O: What are you trying to say, Ron? I was just trying to surmise that dark matter could be the non-interact...

In this tutorial Mark Whittle gives us a bit of the repercussions of the acoustic universe.

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~dmw8f/BB ... _home.html

Very Owlish !!