Starship Asterisk*

Good 'b' movie. Much better after part 2 came out. Although this view reminds me of the prison planet in part 2. Crematoria or whatever. =)

Why can't we see beneath the cloud structures? Instruments can for other planets like Saturn's moon Titan, with its hazey atmosphere.

Are these clouds on Jupiter just too thick too scan through?

I was just thinking that the shape of the expanding shell looks like its being affected by the IGM as that specific star is on its course around the center of the galaxy. but then I can't tell which way is up, and where the heck is the center of the galaxy in relation to the star in this image causi...

I thought that also, hardened magma slowly eroding by the constant bombardment of the solar particles/wind since its so close. But some do look like creatures with folded wings perching on outcrops. =)

hehhe.... I agree with the 'now' part...

OR ELSE!

=b


nah... its just that alot of bad things are on that site, so I agree with apodman.

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/St-Ts/Tides.html The Moon is held in orbit with Earth by Earth's gravitational force. There is also a centrifugal force pulling the Moon away from Earth and trying to send it spinning out into space. Earth and the Moon rotate around the common center of mass of the E...

This picture is so awesome... helluva job done by the artist. =)

*background image set*

your "slowness" argument is only valid without "unknown force" at work, so your pastor friend has all rights to ignore it. Are they also told of a 'man' who died for all Remember multidimensional beings ? He could as well be just like that, dying once "simultaneously" ...

I don't see how the stated water having been created on Earth has anything to do with what is in space and beyond. Of course there are elements of oxygen, hydrogen and other chemicals that help in the creation of water molecules, but that doesn't mean a monstrous orb/shell of water is forming around...

Are these particles orbitting between Mars and Jupiter or are they more dispersed throughout the ecliptic plane of the system?

Do the particles come from that belt of asteroids beyond Mars or from randomly orbitting asteroids that weave in and out of the inner/outer solar system?

No flaming aloud. =) Here's a nifty explanation about Measuring the Speed of Light: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/lightspeed_evidence.html Student: How has the speed of light been measured? Teacher: That's a very good question. In the early 17th century, many scientists believ...

Why are people so confrontational when it comes to differences? People are always trying to make another seem wrong, when what they believe is their own belief and can be changed at any point in time if something extreme brings them to new territory in what they know or don't know. Humans tend to le...

hehehe... I didn't say talk about religion should be allowed. I said that the difference between Religion and Science is that they are both needed in some fashion or another because what one spectrum doesn't bring to the picture, the other does... =b Not necessarily that you need to TALK about relig...

Ok.. so that topic was closed, because someone started ranting after they saw this hastily produced film that tries to use conspiracy as a scientific tool. There are a billion other things that can go the way of conspiracy if we try hard enough to 'let' it. Just like my g/f saw Zeigeist The Movie or...

Dude... that's pretty fargin good. =)

Next topic!!! Jeez... are you even on topic? Can we get some posts in the other APOD image days??? =b

This topic is a post hog. O.o

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080409.html That is an awesome view of the LMC... lucky southern hemisphere people. =b I can't even view the Milky Way bulge from where I'm located (within the central valley of California). Maybe like once in a blue moon if the city lights aren't too bright and the tilt ...

*still lost becuz them answers made me say huh?* *off-topic* I have not studied any type of Astrology/Astronomy/Cosmology or any other type of Space-oriented courses, and only think of things and ask questions pertaining to what interests me. I don't plan on getting degrees in any of those fields, s...

I would be very disappointed if someone says Myspace or anything like that... keep the apples seperate from oranges and the peaches away from the pears. Being social about Astronomy is AWESOME... but including social networking sites that allow the type of content most of us are DISCOURAGED from che...

What about omnidextrous? "Skilled in the use of not only one's own right and left hands, but other people's as well." hehehe... and HAL wasn't that bad. It did do what Dave asked at the end of 2010 and transmit that final message concerning Europa, not to mention allowing the humans to esc...

Stars do get ejected from galaxies I've read... I don't think they can 'form' outside of a galaxy though. The ingredients for star-life are found within the hotbeds of nurseries for infant stars to grow like in Orion nebula.

Links links links?

I dont pay much attention to it... but if APOD uses this service to gain more viewers, so be it. I've done the same by just registering my websites with Internet search engines (ie Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc). And that's great that APOD is gaining more attention than the News sites that have been pumpi...

*tosses calculator out the window* *relaxes and uses 12% brain capacity to ponder instead* Sounds like we need some super-scopes to see into the smallest of particles and find out what came first, the single-cell chicken or its egg...and if that egg isn't just part of a basket full of eggs. =b Why p...

Jack???? *looks around*

That's kind of what I meant... the moon is excellent to bypass the gravity of earth, which requires all of the space agency's money just to get up there. Start refining on the moon and make it your jump point to the other bodies in the solar system, saving millions, and use that money to create new ...