Starship Asterisk*

Okay, cheerful outlook person, you make me quote a verse of my own old lyrics (again) ... No second rate destiny authored by prophets of doom Infinity furnishes nature the ultimate womb And starlight stream on as I watch possibilities bloom No milkweed in the meadow, I admit, but (dammit Jim) I'm an...

I hope this doesn't come across as trolling. Don't worry. You have to drink the special water to become a troll. Only individuals with true troll potential ever find the fountain. It takes repeated angling of the neck and sweeping of the arms while viewing or imagining the sky to get the hang of th...

Stay within your pay grade. Count the rings. Don't go as far as J.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091110.html

Didja see the groovy colors (exaggerated a little here)?

How we conceive of time dictates how we design clocks Time is a jet plane http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/121/465/039/zHF1.jpg http://www.navalshopping.com/products/clock-jet.jpg http://www.miniclock.com/store/images/slide/73_slide_s.jpg http://www.miniclock.com/store/images/2034_slide1.jpg http://...

These would need to be compressed, locked, and then released in sync with the jump.

Came for the "...but I see Egyptian hieroglyphics draped over the crater's rim -- CONSPIRACY!!!" comments. Leaving less than fulfilled. :cry: ~S*H Some things are so obvious that no comment is necessary. But it does look a lot like our friend the owl-spider . http://j3000.com/x/apod/dolla...

I was forever copying and pasting images into a program where I could use a tool to identify a color. In my travels this morning I ran into this utility some might find handy. I'm not a salesman for the company, and it's free anyway. It's a minuscule (11K) download for Windows 2000, XP, or Vista. Wh...

Capt. Kathryn Janeway wrote:Time travel gives me a headache. Tea gives me a headache. In fact, all of you give me a headache. I'm going to bed, wake me for the second reel with some coffee.

Looks like the false color photograph the dentist took of my decayed molar.

Andy Wade wrote:If the average colour in the universe is beige, then why does it look mostly black?

rhetorical question...

Maybe it's a rhetorical question to you, but some people might not know the answer yet, so here's a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

Orientation If the horizon appears in a sky picture, it is traditional to make the horizon horizontal with the sky above it. Even if the horizon is not in the picture, it is still usually shot this way if it is a picture of a phenomenon that involves the horizon such as sunrise, sunset, crepuscular...

http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 46#p110346

Just break any of the 3 rings and Sputnick disappears again.

What say you? I live in the RGB world of the screen before me, so I am comfortable calling colors by their RGB values. But all the while I know the RGB color value in this APOD represents a frequency or distribution of frequencies along a spectrum, and that the conversion from frequency to RGB is m...

The dark matter/energy that is hidden from us found in compact objects throughout the universe can be explained by researching their properties. An interesting paper wrtten by Shlomo Barak, Elia M Leibowitz 14 Sep 2009. http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2581 Cosmology and Astrophysics without Dark Energy a...

Accelerating on a level road perpendicular to the Earth's gravity, (not up into the yonder nor down into free fall), our friend Pythagoras would have to handle 1.06 g (1 g vertical and .35 g horizontal) to accelerate like the Ares or 1.18 g (1 g vertical and .63 g horizontal) to accelerate like the ...

Google search results give: 22,600 for "Pl eï ades" 299 for "Pl eï ads" 62 for "Plei ä des" 3 for "Plei ä ds" All the more reason to post an opinion against such spellings. (One more note: you will never see me referring to Atlas, Pleione, and their Five Brig...

Yes, in free fall you may omit the gravity term. But I was thinking of the +y direction again. Keep looking up.

di-er-e-sis or <di-aer-e-sis>(die er'uh sis) n. pl. <-ses>(-seez ) 1. a sign placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately, as in the spellings naïve and coöperate. If you wanted to use a dieresis in "Pleiades", it should be above the &qu...

neufer wrote:0.63 g's : Shuttle
0.35 g's : Ares 1-X

Don't forget he has to handle 1.63 or 1.35 g's when you add 1 for gravity.

I thought it was pale green. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/universe_color_020110.html Think about it, though: In this one image, you've seen every sight there is to see in the universe... :D The pale green color shown in your link is 161R + 232G + 205B. This makes me wonder, since the brigh...

APOD 2009 November 1 APOD 2002 July 2 This color has become much less blue over the past 10 billion years, indicating that redder stars are becoming more prevalent. There is no color change in the past 7+ years in these pictures, but they do show that the universe is expanding faster than previousl...

Deep research is of no benefit if you only tunnel into the fringe.

Researching opinions is a level removed from researching science.

What gives cheese its color? Milk is essentially white whether it comes from a cow, sheep or goat. So why are there so many colors of cheese? A couple of different factors come into play here, the primary ones being: - Milk type. Goat cheese is always white because the beta carotene in the goat’s d...

SkyGazerGPS wrote:My Prius can do 62MPH in under 8 seconds... granted, not vertically

You might be edged out in the payload specs as well. And I'll bet the Ares would accelerate faster without a full tank.