Starship Asterisk*

stephen63 wrote:Reminded me of a favorite:

Oh, Stephen, that is beautiful! I've not seen this video before - thank you so much for posting it.

Margarita

Universe Today We space nerds like to express our amorous feelings, just like the rest of the population (although admittedly some of need more help/prodding in this area than others). And so just in time for Valentine’s Day comes this new image of a planetary nebula, which looks like a rose — or e...

The image is totally mesmerising! Hey - whilst posting on this thread I remembered that when I watched the video on the Antikethera (not in my spell-checker...) Mechanism that is posted on that thread (the longer video- I think there are two) I discovered that the first Cuckoo clock Was actually an ...

The way the different shades of colors are iterated, reminds me of a Mandelbrot set. Each iteration was a different level, like the contours of a lake. This is a fascinating image. Would have been great for Halloween. :---[===] * Could you unpack that for me, Boomer? This helped a bit http://youtub...

So beautiful, so peaceful - but just imagine the ENERGY in that Aurora. More than all the power stations on Earth?
Margarita

The entire N11 emission nebula is second in LMC size only to 30 Doradus Apod quote 30 Doradus ... 1000 light-years in diameter http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorado#section_4 A light-year, also light year or lightyear (symbol: ly), is a unit of length equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (or ...

data-cat.jpeg This is to celebrate my achieving the status of Science Officer :eyebrows: This picture of a cat with Science Officer Data (a slightly paranoid Android, even if not quite as much as Marvin) was too good to pass up on :kitty: Margarita (written on my very own paranoid Android Google Ne...

I am making up a reference list to help me, and up to now have found them via Google. But the only initials for LHA even slightly astronomically related is Local Hour Angle. Which doesn't seen likely. Can anyone help clarify this for me? http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic?LHA%20120-N : LH - a l...

Oh! :roll: :bang: I get so STUMPED by initials! I am making up a reference list to help me, and up to now have found them via Google. But the only initials for LHA even slightly astronomically related is Local Hour Angle. Which doesn't seen likely. Can anyone help clarify this for me? Margarita PS. ...

Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight. Isn't it lovely that a simple childhood rhyme can give rise to such deep wondering? Reading what you wrote made me recall the impression that the nursery rhyme " Twinkle, twinkle ...

"Newton's hair was a wig. "

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!,

Re Herschel - I've not heard any of his music, do you know it?
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=D89yvmx8_X0 This is an interview with May by Rick Wakeman, totally focussed on music and how May found and developed his unique sound. It is over an hour long but I found it fascinating and had to watch it through. I was interested to see what a very good interviewer Wake...

bystander wrote Although Dr. May may be "part-time" now, as the lead guitarist for Queen, I wouldn't have called him a part-time musician. About Brian May Official Channel Brian May's Official YouTube Channel - Queen guitarist, animal welfare, astrophysicis, 3-D photography. So, yes, he c...

On the 700th edition of The Sky at Night, Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, said that he thought that Newton and May look alike. Astrophysicist and part-time musician, Dr Brian May http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg Warden of the Royal Mint a...

SJoe said I'm not sure why, but I expected more cat pictures.

And your dogs are lovely, SJoe

Margarita

Marvin, my paranoid Android tablet, is being fractious again, and is refusing to paste urls anywhere except at the beginning of my post. Which is why the quotes and attributions are laid out in this rather clunky manner. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover http://news.discovery.com/space/re...

geckzilla wrote:An old one, but still good... Poor Spirit! http://www.xkcd.com/695/

Aaaah....

Opportunity has been alone a lot longer, even lost a twin on Mars before Curiosity got there. I'm sure that it is Curiosity's name that makes me anthropomorphise him ... Curiosity is such a human attribute. 'Opportunity', 'Endeavour' and similar words are labels - but once something is called somet...

Good thing robotic laboratories aren't prone to depression or loneliness. Would that be part of a Turing test? For all we know, poor dear little Curiosity is weeping quietly, feeling so alone and forsaken. :cry: Like Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Margarita (I...

owlice wrote:WOW!!

Mega-WOW... Oh, those little lonely tracks...
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rstevenson wrote:I just now Googled for "homeschool math" and got some interesting hits, including sites that provide materials, exercises and tests.

Rob

Thanks, Rob - that is brilliant
Googling 'home schooling' just wouldn't have crossed my mind...
Margarita

May I give the background to this request first? Because of long term childhood hospitalisation and the educational policy towards the (non) education of severely disabled children of 50 years ago, I mostly missed out on an education as a child. I was able to educate myself in 'the humanities' but m...

And I have found the WEBSITE!
http://www.madmagazine.com/

Oh! Frabjous day

... It takes me back to my younger days (creak of joints - go figure :mrgreen: ). Is MAD still published? Or is this forum the one remaining outpost? As a parttime bookseller at B&N (though my wife calls it my "paid hobby") I can tell you MAD is still available on the Newsstand. How S...

neufer wrote:

MargaritaMc wrote:
Neufer - how ever do you FIND these edifying morsels of information?!

• I'm quite Mad you know.

... It takes me back to my younger days (creak of joints - go figure ). Is MAD still published? Or is this forum the one remaining outpost?