Starship Asterisk*

[b][i]JPL: Reflections on the Pale Blue Dot[/i][/b]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7aL0ZGjoeg[/youtube]

[quote="ta152h0"]wonder if they still exist ![/quote]

They exist I suppose.

[url]http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Geocentrism[/url]

What do they think? The Earth holds still and the rest of the universe moves around like the gears in a Wankel engine.

[attachment=0]Wankel Engine.jpg[/attachment]

[quote="ta152h0"]wonder if they still exist ![/quote]

Voyagers I and II? Certainly. We're still getting data from them as they move through areas of the solar system where the Sun's solar wind piles up against the interstellar wind.

wonder if they still exist !

[quote="DavidLeodis"]In the information brought up through the "last time" link I found this to be very interesting as I had never thought of that:-

"Question: Are the distance counters rolling backwards? Answer: Often they are, and it's actually not an error. This is caused by the fact that Earth moves around the sun more quickly than either Voyager spacecraft is departing from Earth. So, at certain times of the year, the distance between Earth and each Voyager actually decreases."[/quote]
Like those planetary retrogrades that were such a problem for the geocentrists.

In the information brought up through the "last time" link I found this to be very interesting as I had never thought of that:-

"Question: Are the distance counters rolling backwards? Answer: Often they are, and it's actually not an error. This is caused by the fact that Earth moves around the sun more quickly than either Voyager spacecraft is departing from Earth. So, at certain times of the year, the distance between Earth and each Voyager actually decreases."

Thank you Voyager, happy wandering.

[quote="BMAONE23"][quote="ta152h0"]some of the things I have said here definitely make me a quark, and I think the white spot on Ceres is a recent collision. Now pass me an ice cold one......[/quote]
Charmed, I'm sure[/quote]
Even if he's the proprietor of a bar?

[quote="ta152h0"]some of the things I have said here definitely make me a quark, and I think the white spot on Ceres is a recent collision. Now pass me an ice cold one......[/quote]
Charmed, I'm sure

some of the things I have said here definitely make me a quark, and I think the white spot on Ceres is a recent collision. Now pass me an ice cold one......

[quote="BMAONE23"]So we are just a few dots in space.....[/quote]

On the scale of the unobservable universe maybe somewhere between a sentient string and a crazy quark?

[url]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140112.html[/url]

Actually using the Scale of the Universe – a cranium the size of uranium :wink:

[quote="simple minded"][quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="Boomer12k"]So we are just a few dots in space.....[/quote]
At the scale of some of the APOD images, entire galaxies are just a few dots in space. Not sure what that makes us...[/quote]
Participants! :D[/quote]
Sentient

[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="Boomer12k"]So we are just a few dots in space.....[/quote]
At the scale of some of the APOD images, entire galaxies are just a few dots in space. Not sure what that makes us...[/quote]
Participants! :D

[quote="Boomer12k"]So we are just a few dots in space.....[/quote]
At the scale of some of the APOD images, entire galaxies are just a few dots in space. Not sure what that makes us...

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

So we are just a few dots in space.....

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[quote="hoohaw"] How was Voyager smart enough to know not to include Pluto? [/quote]
[quote="APOD Robot"]
Closer to the Sun than Neptune at the time, [url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150212]small, faint Pluto's[/url] position was not covered. [/quote]

[quote="AstroHokie"]It is amazing and humbling when a spot on the computer screen is larger that the earth in this image... Wow quite an adventure and a journey... Thanks NASA![/quote]
That said, this is true for almost every astronomical image posted here- in most cases the pixel scale is much, much smaller than in today's image!

[quote="hoohaw"]How was Voyager smart enough to know not to include Pluto?[/quote]

Sorta funny, but not :lol2: worthy. :ssmile: I'm sure the JPL guys & gals would have if there was any chance of recording any light from tiny Pluto.

How was Voyager smart enough to know not to include Pluto?

It is amazing and humbling when a spot on the computer screen is larger that the earth in this image... Wow quite an adventure and a journey... Thanks NASA!

Looking at this APOD I feel extremely insignificant.

I remember that in AWST

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150214.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_150214.jpg[/img] [size=150]Solar System Portrait[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] On another [url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20553]Valentine's Day[/url] 25 years ago, cruising four billion miles from the Sun, the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one [url=http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html]last time[/url] to make this first ever [url=http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00451]Solar System family portrait[/url]. The complete portrait is a [url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-solarsystem.html]60 frame mosaic[/url] made from a vantage point 32 degrees above the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic]ecliptic plane[/url]. In it, Voyager's wide angle camera frames sweep through the inner Solar System at the left, linking up with gas giant Neptune, [url=http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm]the Solar System's[/url] outermost planet, at the far right. Positions for Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are indicated by letters, while the Sun is the bright spot near the center of the circle of frames. [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2010-048]The inset frames[/url] for each of the planets are from Voyager's narrow field camera. Unseen in the portrait are [url=http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=399]Mercury, too close[/url] to the Sun to be detected, and Mars, unfortunately hidden by sunlight scattered in the camera's optical system. Closer to the Sun than Neptune at the time, [url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150212]small, faint Pluto's[/url] position was not covered.

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