Starship Asterisk*

harry wrote:Hello All

Nice
Hot shots
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_05_07/

In the video of Mercury crossing the solar path to Earth, why is the focus constantly changed, causing such a jumpy video??

Hi Vicki, welcome The funny thing is, craterchains and FieryIce, are in the aliens are here camp. :lol: Yes welcome Vicki!! As Astro stated, Craterchains and FieryIce are most likely upset about today's APOD because it is a direct, in your face, attack on their unusual beliefs. That is to say they ...

It seems to have a loop formation on the top. You can see light going through the 'loop' casting a crescent shadow.

The 'loop' resembles a piece of thin sheered metal. hmmf

Both images (with and without stars) likely originate from the same single image. That is, there is no time difference between the two images. They just took an image and then digitally removed the point light sources. In doing so some other parts of the image are changed and distorted making gas cl...

These branes must be highly dense to form a point collision that would result in such massive energy production. Whose to say if these membranes wouldn't simply pass through each other? Or stick together? also, Gravity causes space time to stretch in every direction creating our 3 spacial dimention ...

Imagine what humans thought viewing auroras in the past.. 500 years ago. 10000 etc..

Must have been rather frightening for them. They (auroras) probably could have spawned some of the ‘higher being’ beliefs..

When did this forum become a platform for religious belief, for any agenda? If I told you what I believe to be the origins of the universe, that's one thing, but this ripping apart of each others beliefs is neither educational nor productive. I could tell you what I think of the outlandish claims t...

but the fact there are no impactors showing up The impactors are all around us. Did they not bring much of the heavier elements to the earths surface?? Not excluding water? I could be wrong here, but if comets and asteroids didn't bring these things to us AFTER the earths crust solidified they woul...

If you don't want a cameras representation, you're going to have to ask someone who has been there. I would tend to think that it would look much like the pictures of earth taken from the moons surface. The astronauts landed on the bright side of the moon (so they could see and not freeze) and proba...

That is a beautiful pic of Saturn. I think it looks better with the rings positioned horizontally. Any insight in why APOD decided to position them vertically?

http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1854/5429/94529.jpg Can someone help explain this to me? I saw the apod last week and thought I was pretty clear on the explanation until the picture made it into my Science News Weekly.. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060826/fob1.asp To search for dark matte...

I second that notion.

It's pictures like these that leave me speachless.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... _f2048.jpg

Hi FireyIce

I updated my profile to show my occupation and where I currently reside.
I don't understand, does that make you feel more comfortable responding to my posts??

Where are ANY of the impactors? All of the other craters that are said to have been caused by a meteor here on earth is only an assumption, not a fact. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990711.html Norval How are these assumptions? Isn't there large peices of melted/molded iron from impactors that...

Rock!

lol.
True, it doesn't have much to do with astronomy, but it is cool none the less.

What physical process is going to cause every star that happens to be older than one specific cut-off age to suddenly 'regenerate'?

That would be an interesting process to observe... Qev, you definitely hit the nail on the head with that one.

I know what infinity is. I don't know what infinity is. I'd like to know, but I don't think the human mind could handle such knowledge. Now we see deep field images with existing galaxies. "Deep field" Is a relative term. As we come up with better technology, our field of view will become...

Very nice one indeed Orin.

After downloading the high resolution tif image, sharpening and enhancing edges, here is what the 'cross' rock looks like. http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1854/5429/82001.jpg And upon closer inspection, one can make out some ancient Martian hieroglyphics or perhaps simply a juvenile Martians attemp...

I saw the two Nova segments.. Interesting indeed. However I don't think they inferred that String Theory disproves the Big Bang Theory. Alternatively in the second piece, it went in to depth about String proposed ‘brains’, and how the point collision of any two ‘brains’ could be the source of our Bi...

Airchip: Because the centerpoint of the Big Bang is not "inside" this universe, in the same way that the center of a balloon is not on the skin of the balloon. The centerpoint of the universe is "inward" in a fourth linear dimension, called "time". We cannot see it beca...

Why is it that when we look in to deep field 13.2 billion light years that we see existing galaxies and not the birth of the universe. What are the farthest/deepest/oldest images we can see with Hubble etc.? http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1854/5429/71807.jpg According to big bang theory the unive...

Definitely possible.. I'd sure like to see that.