Starship Asterisk*

It's a thing. Don't blame me for it, I only live here I didn't design the language. English, she is a law unto herself. You're the only one here doing it. It's long been officially deprecated. Stop. The practice has been "officially deprecated" by one US college and one US newspaper. That...

Please stop anthropomorphizing spacecraft and using feminine pronouns. They're not women. True, they are not women, they are not even alive. However, they are either ships or aircraft and both of those are, by tradition, commonly referred to with the feminine pronoun in English. Even ships with mas...

So the only viable option to avoid contamination of the system is to crash into that planet. Why? What would the problem be with trying to force the probe into so nearly a low polar orbit of Saturn as the remaining fuel can achieve? That way, Cassie can image Saturn and The Rings for us for a while...

if a space craft cannot be recovered then it should not be sent off. Ummmm.... New Horizons? Newby could be retrieved. All we need to do is slingshot her past her next target so she falls towards another falling rock then bounce her from rock to rock until one of the gravitational slingshots gives ...

So the only viable option to avoid contamination of the system is to crash into that planet. Why? What would the problem be with trying to force the probe into so nearly a low polar orbit of Saturn as the remaining fuel can achieve? That way, Cassie can image Saturn and The Rings for us for a while...

Anyone else think this looks a little like the nexus from Star Trek: Generations ? I was looking at the bright star in the top right and wondering why they have a picture of my wife using a lectern while three bearded gentlemen from the Victorian-era Royal Society listen to her lecture. Not that sh...

eekee wrote:I've seen it *loads* of times! ... I've never liked the colors.

Photoshop. Irfanview. GIMP. Change the RGB values to something you like better.

I'm fairly certain I've seen images of those clouds that look very similar to this one but whether they were the same picture or not is not something I would be sure of. I have, for example, seen a nebula looking very like that one as a display on the wall of "Voyager's" conference room. J...