Starship Asterisk*

I was trying to soak all this in but my hype filter is out of control...

What if the dwarves are hostile?

Suprisingly didn't notice any LW in this thread... I watched his show as a kid.

Hi Chris,
You must be a very frustrated astronomer.
I feel your pain. My house is surrounded by big trees and I wimp out at the cold.

Hi Orin,

You have truly dated (or dotted ) yourself now

I think it would be sad if the moon were to become a black hole. I think our howling would certainly no longer be heard... and things would generally get very quiet... at least from a human perspective.

A long time running engineering lab joke regarding technology and especially research... Magic smoke is what makes electronic devices work. When the smoke escapes... it no longer works. Humans are the most diverse creatures on the planet. Humans are all over the map. And not just the geography map. ...

You suned it up very well!

My smartphone has an annoying way of automatically correcting my spelling. There is likely an off switch but I can’t bear hurting its feelings.

That doesn’t sound healthy. Those scientists should get out more often; maybe visit an American baseball game where batters frequently see the pitch drop.

neufer wrote:You can do cross-eyed stereoscopy to observe the Earth & Moon in 3D.

I tried the 3D outer space stereo super scope viewing and now understand the comic cosmic commodious concept of two directions at once!

Maybe it's rude to double-post, but this is actually about today's APOD, not yesterday's: An annotated version of the Cassini shot! http://broiler.astrometry.net/~dstn/temp/17171-ann.jpg Details at old post http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=31792&p=203761#p203756 cheers, dustin I...

The Saturn image is an awesome composition. I love the perspective of the space traveler.

Chris Peterson wrote:

emc wrote:The image has not been calibrated and I wonder if the horizontal bands are due to interlacing.

The camera doesn't have an interlaced readout. The bands are from noise.

Thanks Chris, I appreciate the information and link.

The image has not been calibrated and I wonder if the horizontal bands are due to interlacing.

neufer wrote:

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

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emc wrote:
One thing this APOD does besides making for a wonderful Monday morning outer space experience is, like the Pale Blue Dot image of long ago, remind me of how small I am in the grand scheme of things.

home is a nutshell for many of us

Caught in the chaos in the market square I don't know what, I don't know why, but something's wrong down there Their bodies twistin' and turnin' in a thousand ways The eyes all rollin' round and round into a distant gaze Ah, look at that crowd! Some are jumping up in the air - say "We're drown...

not only can we thank the sun for the earthshine, we can also thank the sun for the moonshine and all those that participated

One thing this APOD does besides making for a wonderful Monday morning outer space experience is, like the Pale Blue Dot image of long ago, remind me of how small I am in the grand scheme of things.

do we really know fully NASA and NSI capacity?
i mean how much space can there be on the APOD server for example... like infinity!??

i bet they even know who Wonkyboy is

neufer wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF]How Earth will appear to the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn tomorrow afternoon when its snaps a series of pictures of the planet from nearly 900 million miles away. Credit: NASA[/color][/b]

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wow, you can almost see cracks in the earth

Maybe some of you have the same problem I have. I have been wanting to share some things but not having a topic to put them in and yet they are unworthy of their own topics. Like, last night I had a dream that an office building at the top of a hill had a telescope on top of it but it was the worst...

I expect they were thoughtful enough to have already factored the distance. But that is not a definitive answer. I’m going with my gut as “already factored” because that is how it reads to me.

i think it would be waggish if everyone mooned the cameras... although futile for posterity... it be fuel for posteriority

The hot metal ball being plunged into a block of ice makes a good metaphor for the movie “ Ball of Fire ” wherein a feisty hot dancer becomes involved with a cold stark professor resulting in transformation. BTW – Alfred Newman wrote the music... thought that was interesting too. http://upload.wikim...