Starship Asterisk*

I am sure you got a moment too, when you realized that you failed in APOD?

I am confessing mine so I sleep better

About a year ago, I saw a star cluster APOD and I was all astonished about the countless stars.
Then, I scrolled down and I realized with shock that the stars were partly dust particles on my screen

Since then, I have a very very clean screen

Tell your APOD-fail, get it out of your chest and sleep better too

Moonlady wrote:Tell your APOD-fail, get it out of your chest and sleep better too :yes:

You mean like the great solar flare image that turned out to just be my monitor on fire?

Chris Peterson wrote:You mean like the great solar flare image that turned out to just be my monitor on fire?

Chris Peterson wrote:

Moonlady wrote:Tell your APOD-fail, get it out of your chest and sleep better too

You mean like the great solar flare image that turned out to just be my monitor on fire?

Literally? Your monitor exploded? Do you have foes in APOD? Did you get hurt?

Hmmm I thought these old Brown's CRT TVs could not only implode but also explode,
can Flat Plasma and LCD monitors explode?

Moonlady wrote:Literally? Your monitor exploded?

Yes... I let things get out of control. First I thought it was an aurora APOD, then decided it was a solar flare. By the time I figured out it wasn't a supernova APOD, it was too late.

Well, there was that time I mixed up charge bleeds and diffraction spikes...

Chris Peterson wrote:

Moonlady wrote:Literally? Your monitor exploded?

Yes... I let things get out of control. First I thought it was an aurora APOD, then decided it was a solar flare. By the time I figured out it wasn't a supernova APOD, it was too late.

You let things get out of control?

How do I know that I'm not letting things get out of control with my monitor?

In other words, how and why did it happen, Chris?

(By the way, I sure hope you managed to put out that fire quickly, with minimal damage to other items of your property and to yourself!)

Ann