Starship Asterisk*

Okay, I found NASA - STS-125 Landing Ground Tracks which shows that the shuttle won't fly over greater LA this trip.

The space shuttle will land in California in about an hour and a half from now. When it does, I would like to see it fly overhead if possible. The last shuttle mission landed at Edwards (where I was born). It flew roughly south to north over Los Angeles on it's way to landing. I think I saw it when ...

Since this is from youtube, I assume it requires Flash. I assume that is why the additional links don't work for me.

I have avoided letting Flash get installed because it is often used for obnoxious and intrusive commercials.

Confused - Case most likely went to the link that is positioned beneath the image - if it had been there..? Case indicated that the page was working for Case. Are you agreeing with Case that the page is working for you? If so, then that contradicts your other comment(s). If the page is not working ...

Case wrote:The page and images load fine from here... :?:

I'm Confused. I don't understand how that is possible, unless you are getting a different version of the page than the rest of us do.

I have not looked at the HTML cloesly, but the following portion of HTML from the May 11 APOD is missing from the May 12 APOD, except with obvious modifications relevant to the May 12 APOD. Note that the missing HTML has the ending ">" which confuses the HTML parser and that causes the ima...

Immediately after I posted my reply, I checked again and now I get a page that says:

The website you are trying to access is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
We are aware of the problem and are working quickly to return it to service.

We appreciate your patience during this time.

I have been unable to get to the site for about 24 hours.

Thank you, Andy.

The important thing is that it is not easy to see.

I cannot see it.

I did read.

You are assuming that I can see it and that I did not read.

I am tired of people thinking they are smarter than they really are. These forums are a magnet for them.

In the remarkable image of the space shuttle orbiter Atlantis docked with the International Space Station, I don't see the shuttle, so if you don't see it you are not the only one. I looked at the high resolution version too and did not see the shuttle.

The black hole cannot be seen because it's gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. That has been said many times before. So it appears black because any light that may be inside cannot escape. Saying " appears black " implies it can be seen. What I am sayi...

How can you see something behind something you can't see ? :D What is the definition of " can't see "? If it is that something is transparent, then obviously we should be able to see something on the other side. That however is not the definition here, so I think that since objects on the...

You have probably come to the wrong place for this , Confused. You are in the wrong place to religiously insist that your way is the right way. So is what you have a theory (as that word is used in science)? I don't think so. I am confident that the experts would see merit in what I say instead of ...

StACase wrote:I like the animation

I am limited by Windows and don't get animation. Of course, it might not be Windows; perhaps all other Windows users get the animation.

The APOD description says " over one million times the mass of our Sun is somehow confined to a region less than a fifth of a light-year across ". How does the object (black hole or whatever) at the center of our galaxy compare in size to our Sun? I assume that our Sun is much, much smalle...

{I am replying to fatcitymax.} Why is water a reason to go to Mars? Is it that water makes it more likely that life exists? I think the (potential) discovery of life is a good reason to send unmanned missions until we have discovered enough that manned missions are productive. The subject of water ...

The picture shows a rockfall uncovering lighter colored soil, not evidence of water flow. That is clearly a very steep incline. That sure sounds like a reasonable potential explanation. I am not a geologist or anything like that but the media sure likes to emphasize the dramatic. If NASA says it is...

Nereid wrote:I edited the title; what you wrote is quite OK for a thread starter.

Good.

This is for the APOD for 2006 December 12 , but evidently there is not enough room for the title and date in the subject field. I hope it is appropriate for me to start this thread. My comment is that I am interested in the skeptics. What are the chances that it was not water? What other theories ar...

Unfortunately, I don't run Windows, so I can't see it. For crying out loud, what is a site like APOD doing using platform specific media? I posted a similar comment because I have (not) seen many movies. In the past, no movies posted in APOD worked for me; this one does. My comment, though, was nic...

Thank you very much for finally providing a movie that I can see. In the past, no movies provided by APOD worked for me. Finally this one does.

By saying there isnt any proof is false cause there are plenty of proof. No there is not proof. There is plenty of evidence but no proof. The experts do not understand dark energy and dark matter. You are the type of person that will never ever ever sincerely admit that there are other possibilitie...

all galexies may have been created by their own white hole, and later may disappear into a black hole........ Is that part of current theory? white holes funnel energy, matter and spacetime from another universe dimention or from "X" :) to our universe Lewis About everything I know on the...

Doum wrote:The gravity on a black hole is too strong to permit the release of any matter into space.

We have no proof of that.

Doum wrote:This is a complete different comments.

Correct.