Starship Asterisk*

JohnD wrote: ↑Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:52 am Oh, boy, another composite, of hundred - thousands? - of images glued together.


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Dozens of them, even! You can see most of the transitions between the 21 frames.

Being embedded in a galaxy there would be dark matter passing through them in general.
I'd ask how likely they are to hog enough of it to be detectable as a halo above the background.

This is the best photo of supernumenary bows that I have ever seen. What strikes me is, that the distance between the bows seems to be larger higher up, so the bows do not form circles concentric with the primary rainbow. If correct, how can that be explained? When I look closely and trace it down,...

Now, now. Don't exaggerate. If you're careful, you can probably recover 5% of the material. (And a lot more if you return it in a re-entry container, but that might add a lot of expense.) I wasn't talking about the mass of material. But the cost & value of it. The ratio of $/kg for mass in orbi...

I think you might be stretching there, Bruce.
It is clearly just the peg-hole from somebody's full-scale Orrery.

That's not a logic game. That's a thought experiment. I'm not sure what you're trying to do with it however. If you're letting the planets go from a standstill, the surface features at the contact point on both sides would just get subsumed into part of the core as it all slumps together into a new ...

If you just want to have some mined elements on paper, it will not be cost effective. If you want to have some materials specifically in space for some purpose, nature is giving you a $2000 to $20000 per kg subsidy from the fact that the asteroid is already in space. That's what will drive it to be ...

I like to use that same angle for launching from KSC. The ship looks awfully familiar too. I gotta get a high rez texture mod like this image.
Good to see they added the extra boosters and struts too

There are quite a few more that appear to be moving retrograde, such as the one moving right at the top of the image all alone at 0:04, but on further inspection, are merely highly inclined.

APOD Robot wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 4:11 amThe airglow was so intense it diminished parts of the Milky Way

Really?
Are you sure it isn't just overwhelming the Milky Way rather than dimming the light?

All of our physics tells us that time wasn't a property that existed before the Big Bang (which certainly can't have a probability of greater than one!). So time may well be infinite going forward from that event, but seems not to be infinite looking backwards. Don't fathom your thinking. Time is i...

The middle portion is clearly the head of the glorious Hypnotoad, and everything else you see is due to its influence.

Not a good configuration for drivers. I bet there are many more accidents than there would otherwise be at such times. It is going to line up with straight roads twice a year anyways in most places. At least with due east/west it is a well-known day. Unless you make your roads bend so there are alw...

The two eclipses are related elements, and combined exhibit a certain creative aspect of photography, but the events are so disparate that it isn't very exciting. The language is way over the top too, it is not a great American eclipse, it is a great eclipse that was visible over America (or the US...

Also unusual is that Iceland seems to have a Star Trek type force field up. None of the blue smog no matter how bright can pass over Iceland! It gets whipped around like as if the Iceland shields are up. The brown Sahara dust smoke though passes right over Iceland. To be fair, the blue is sea salt....

The numbering of Saroses (Saroi?) is confusing. This APOD is described as "Saros 145", wth the link putting Saros 1 in the 17th Century, but 145x18= 2610, so that No.1 was in 593 BCE, and a NASA page dates 'Saros 1" as from 2004-2011 (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros001....

Hi Ann, So long as long URLs work, they don't bother me at all. I take it they bother you? Personally, tiny urls bother me. What are they trying to hide and what spying is going on when all traffic bounces through tinyurl.com? There's much better ways to do it (that we've always had available) anyw...

I get a Protoss vibe from it myself.
But now that you mention it I see the B5ish there too.

There is something to be said about the idea of launching a hundred Saturn Vs to assemble a Saturn V in orbit and send it to Saturn in order to return a small probe from Saturn.

A google search for "you are here galaxy" will get a huge pile of images for you. From there you should be able to find the specific variant you're looking for.

If you're focused and patient, you can see it zoom back out after the video ends

Good destination for all the junk that is floating in the Pacific ocean, if we can get it there <<Garbage Dump in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean consists of about 3.5 million tons of trash such as light bulbs, Styrofoam cups, plastic bags, bottle caps, Popsicle sticks, bottle, cans, fishing gear, ...

Meekmoe wrote:From our view from Earth, do we ever see Mars eclipsed by one of its moons? Not a solar eclipse, but a Earth Mars Phobos (or Deimos) eclipse?

Phobos passes between Earth and mars, but due to the small size would be less an eclipse and more of a transit.

Chris Peterson wrote:We don't insist that words maintain their archaic pronunciations.

So, does that mean you agree that it is fine if we decide to start pronouncing your name as Car-Ice?

rwlott wrote:I love the term "land landing."

Lithobraking without lithobreaking.