So, I take it that you're not a fan of the Drake Equation.Chris Peterson wrote: No. We're here because if we weren't, we wouldn't be. Nothing to do with odds.
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- Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Black Hole = Big Bang = Another Universe
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15665
Re: Black Hole = Big Bang = Another Universe
- Thu Aug 01, 2013 7:12 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Black Hole = Big Bang = Another Universe
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15665
Re: Black Hole = Big Bang = Another Universe
Unfortunately, it's an idea with about as much scientific evidence as the suggestion that the Universe is sitting on an infinite stack of turtles... I watched a documentary on the science channel , Through the Wormhole, I believe, in which a theoretical physicist or cosmologist, I'm not sure which,...
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Discoveries from Planck may mean rethinking the universe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1888
Re: Discoveries from Planck may mean rethinking the universe
Perhaps we'll get an explanation here. I thought that non-uniformity of the cosmos is what allowed stars to form in the first place. How did they determine what the criteria are for an "anomalously large area of high density"?
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Discoveries from Planck may mean rethinking the universe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1888
Discoveries from Planck may mean rethinking the universe
The actual title. Discoveries from Planck may mean rethinking how the universe began . Recently, scientists on the Planck team announced finding certain large-scale features on the CMB sky that they cannot explain. One of them: a large cold spot, which corresponds to an anomalously large area of hig...
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:08 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: OWL OR SPIDER ON DOLLAR BILL?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 52995
Re: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
Or a Koala? I know, that's stretching it.geckzilla wrote:That's a jumping spider.
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:44 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Where am I?
- Replies: 1004
- Views: 64042
Re: Where am I?
<<Robert Hooke FRS (28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath. Hooke's law is a principle of physics that states that the force F needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance X is proportional to that distance. That is, http://u...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Beautiful Trifid (2013 Jul 25)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 100569
Re: APOD: The Beautiful Trifid (2013 Jul 25)
Since Otto appears to be a backup, lets hope the primary doesn't fail.neufer wrote:Then you might correct Otto's typo as well.owlice wrote:
Well, now it does!
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:54 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Where am I?
- Replies: 1004
- Views: 64042
Re: Where am I?
Well, i must say I'm enjoying all the clues, even though i don't have a clue as to what they're trying to clue me in on. I just went through Wikipedia's description of James Joyce and couldn't find anything relevant to anything, that i could recognize as being relevant to your puzzle. Oh... the bur...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:00 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Where am I?
- Replies: 1004
- Views: 64042
Re: Where am I?
The strong nuclear force? Red, Green and Blue describe the color charge of the quarks. Together, they have to be white(colorless) in order to be held together. I'm pretty much lost at this point and probably said it incorrectly, anyway!
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:50 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Stream of Stuff
- Replies: 780
- Views: 397658
Re: Stream of Stuff
If that gecko-inspired dry adhesive can stick repeatedly to human skin, I think it could be used to completely redesign headphones. Instead of having an annoying bar that goes uncomfortably over the top of your head you could reduce the weight of the entire thing by having the two ear pieces stick ...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:53 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: It's opening! It's opening! The big stinky flower returns!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 647
Re: It's opening! It's opening! The big stinky flower return
Don't forget to bring along a limburger cheese sandwich for lunch
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Apollo 11 final approach
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1003
Re: Apollo 11 final approach
I recently watched a documentary titled "In the Shadow of the Moon". It chronicles the US space program and our efforts to reach the moon. Neil Armstrong took the lunar lander down to less than 30 seconds of fuel before they touched down. This video was shown. Watch it if you get a chance....
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 3:25 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Where am I?
- Replies: 1004
- Views: 64042
Re: Where am I?
Tough one, Ann!
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Moon from Zond 8 (2013 Jul 16)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7755
Re: APOD: The Moon from Zond 8 (2013 Jul 16)
I knew you were going to say that!bystander wrote:The Moon does rotate. Its rotational period is equal to its orbital period, once every 27.321582 days.Boomer12k wrote:Too bad The Moon does not rotate...
- Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Did Andromeda crash into the Milky Way 10 billion years ago?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 716
Did Andromeda crash into the Milky Way 10 billion years ago?
(Phys.org) —For many years scientists have believed that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is set to crash into its larger neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, in about 3 billion years' time and that this will be the first time such a collision has taken place. But now a European team of astronomers led by Ho...
- Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:00 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2013 July
- Replies: 247
- Views: 92788
Re: Submissions: 2013 July
NGC 3603 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7366/9135642175_f23471fd5d_c.jpg Hi Res link: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7366/9135642175_bff861caba_h.jpg NGC 3603 is an open cluster of stars situated in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way around 20,000 light-years away from the Solar System. It is sur...
- Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Orbiting a Black Hole (2013 Jul 01)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20746
Re: APOD: Orbiting a Black Hole (2013 Jul 01)
WOW! That coin thingy is neat! It's better than the marble ones. Although they still depends upon "real" gravity to make them work, I do think those coin drains and dimpled rubber sheet models are much better analogies than the waterfall. They do a better job teaching the important concep...
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Cloud behavior expands habitable zone of alien planets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 870
Cloud behavior expands habitable zone of alien planets
A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe. This finding means that in the Milky Way galaxy alone, 60 billion planets may be orbiting red dwarf stars in...
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Submissions: 2013 July
- Replies: 247
- Views: 92788
Re: Submissions: 2013 July
30 Doradus http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3729/9168177092_3f1a55fa23_z.jpg Hi Res link: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3729/9168177092_59021baf66_h.jpg R136 Region of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus, or NGC 2070), an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Compact star cluster...
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:19 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Saturns Hyperion: A Moon with Odd... (2013 Jun 30)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4033
Re: APOD: Saturns Hyperion: A Moon with Odd... (2013 Jun 30)
Carbon dioxide and organics.
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on... (2013 Jun 25)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19359
Re: APOD: Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on... (2013 Jun
White Object, White Thingy, Reflection (not). A future geologist, walking around on Mars, finding these pieces would place them in a bag labeled "Trash from the Past". You would think NASA would try to minimize the trash and contamination it spreads around. We may live their someday. Rese...
- Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on... (2013 Jun 25)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19359
Re: APOD: Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on... (2013 Jun
More Government?
- Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Keele: Survivor of Stellar Collision Is New Type of Pulsar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 746
Re: Keele: Survivor of Stellar Collision Is New Type of Puls
Pulsar? It's not even a neutron star!
- Thu Jun 27, 2013 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: The violent birth of neutron stars
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1933
The violent birth of neutron stars
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics conducted the most expensive and most elaborate computer simulations so far to study the formation of neutron stars at the center of collapsing stars with unprecedented accuracy. These worldwide first three-dimensional m...
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on... (2013 Jun 25)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19359
Re: APOD: Rock Nest Panorama from Curiosity on... (2013 Jun
This link has the various thingies labeled.
http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/interac ... 8&view=cyl
http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/interac ... 8&view=cyl