Starship Asterisk*

islader2 wrote:How is Eric Nguyen able to copyright==in 2004==a photograph taken a year {or so} later? What a perversion of Queen Anne's law!!!

gpclark@cableone.net wrote:This is a phony picture.

islader2 wrote:
How is Eric Nguyen able to copyright==in 2004==a photograph taken a year {or so} later? What a perversion of Queen Anne's law!!!

bto wrote:
If you see a tornado, in your car--drive away from it at right angles,

• 1) the tornado is coming directly towards you
  2) and there is a road at right angles.

Boomer12k wrote:
Not mentioned is the column of smoke or something to the left of the rainbow. It looks like the spirit of a person facing to our left. The are leg, left arm, chest, shoulder, and neck and head, and the head has a helmet, all in profile. I am calling him, "The Guardian of the Rainbow", who protects believers from tornadoes!!!!

bto wrote:This is completely lame.
Nothing to do with astronomy
seems to be the third time its used
so much NEW stuff, yet we see the same tired pics

BTW...If you see a tornado, in your car--drive away from it at right angles,

Q4: Have some APOD pictures been run more than once?
A4: Yes. Many of our readers have been with us less than a year and are unaware of some really spectacular or important astronomy pictures. New information about old pictures is becoming available over the WWW. The text and links for rerun pictures will make use of this newly available information. So although the picture might be old, some of the text and links of each APOD will be new. Also, more web surfers have larger bandwidth connections, which allows us to post higher-resolution image files that can be transferred conveniently. Software to handle more sophisticated image file formats has also become more common, so the picture's size and/or format might be new. Lastly, rerunning APODs saves us time and helps us update our archive. In general, our rerun policy currently is to only rerun APODs more than one year old to keep the pictures relatively "new" to new APOD viewers. We will almost never rerun more than two pictures in any given week. So when you load the current APOD,it is still, most probably, a new picture.

bystander wrote:
This is a real photo taken June 12, 2004, in Mulvane, Kansas, by storm chaser Eric Nguyen.
See this and other amazing storm photography on his homepage, www.mesoscale.ws.

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheFoundation.html wrote:

• Jerry: Oh God.
  
  George: What?
  
  Jerry: It's Dolores.
  
  George: Who?
  
  Jerry: Mulva.
  
  George: I thought Mulva hated you.

APOD Robot wrote:The scene might have been considered serene if it weren't for the tornado.

neufer wrote:

bto wrote:
If you see a tornado, in your car--drive away from it at right angles,

That only makes sense if:

• 1) the tornado is coming directly towards you
  2) and there is a road at right angles.

Bernard wrote:The physics of rainbows require the sun to be behind the observer, not on the left side. Therefore, this picture must be a superimposition of several shots.

drollere wrote:the APOD editorial team has really slipped down the slope of pretty pictures in recent months. i'd prefer that the team first asked themselves, "what specifically does this picture of the day have to do with ... astronomy?"