Starship Asterisk*

Not a hint of wordplay among them.

Is "lamba" nu?

Other stars known best by their familiar Bayer designations that come readily to mind are Epsilon Eridani, Phi Ophiuchi, and Beta Tauri.

... a bit of pretentiousness in a community that once maintained Latin as its formal language. My solution is to eschew the usage: I simply say chi Perseus (or write chi Per). Purists don't like that, but it is clearer and simpler, and nothing is lost in the practice. I'm with you in spirit on this...

Speaking of variables, notice Mira is in the picture at the extreme upper edge near the right-hand side! Mira is in Cetus which is near the center of the very wide APOD. You may have some horizontal scrolling to do before you see the actual right-hand side. For anyone who wants to compare stars wit...

Corollary: Never give an infinite monkey job to a finite set of monkeys. The fewer monkeys you employ, the less your compilation of epigrammatic poetry resembles the text generated by actual structured logical human thinking.

But how 'bout that skyscape? Amazing how all those foreground peaks are higher than Everest. And tell those monks to do something about all that light pollution.

Real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_polar_wander Not Real: http://survive2012.com/index.php/geryl-pole-shift.html http://dec212021.blogspot.com/2009/09/galactic-alignment-and-2012-po...

Congratulations (and domo arigato), Mr. Robot, on your first post. I guess your post count doesn't increment, huh?

geckzilla wrote:I never thought crackpots could come in so many variations.

I'm not quite sure to whom you're referring, but I represent that remark.

geckzilla wrote:Is this some kind of new species?

It's living proof that cosmic rays randomize DNA.

I know we techies are all focused on the internet, but for perspective and parallel logic consider the case of Antarctica. The existence of Antarctica was proposed 2000 years ago. Antarctica commonly appeared on maps 400 years ago. Antarctica was first sighted by modern humans in 1820. Maps prior to...

Why can't we PM the new APOD Robot? I want to know what he thinks. He does have a cool website.

Styx wrote:Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto
For doing the jobs that nobody wants to

1) Here's a link: http://lxrdesign.biz/EXTINCT.htm Worth a look IMO. Note however that the listed mass extinctions are already well explained by meteorites in two cases and by historical geological conditions impacting climate in at least one other case. Note also that, while the linked page contain...

Chris Peterson wrote:higher magnification increases contrast between astronomical objects and the sky background

Didn't know that, and was never conscious of it when viewing. What's the principle behind it?

Both appear equally empty Like my logical math professor told me, it would be silly for just one of them to be equally empty. Location: Oslo Where exactly is Oslo? At one time I was able to find it in Czech OSLO vakia, but they've since disbanded. --- That's the end of this cornball episode. I prom...

Radar Blue wrote:[hard to decipher]

Are you goofing on us, is it a terrible Google translation, or does that all mean something? Does it have anything to do with the subject? If so, please isolate your point from the word salad and say it plainly.

starrybyte.com
cosmicpost.com

Next, the current description line under the board name "The Asterisk*" reads "The Night Sky Live Project Bulletin Board." Also the URL of The Asterisk is nightskylive related. Still, the Night Sky Live project, once a passion of mine, has pretty much winded down. Therefore, alt...

But that shouldn't preclude you from casting similarly narrow nets rather than sticking to a single narrow net, should it? Oh well, I wasn't really contributing to the discussion so much as discounting the conclusion you came to in your previous post, apodman. I see. I was painting the situation in...

Isn't it possible, or even very likely, that time travelers, even from our own species, could be so foreign to us that it would be very difficult for us to recognize them? Conversely, that could also make us and our technology quite foreign to them, though, not necessarily. Interactions could poten...

Two foreground stars that look close together can be anywhere along your line of sight as much as 2500 ly (actually the APOD description says 4500 ly) apart.

If time travel to the past is possible, someone will do it. If enough people travel to the past, someone will leave evidence. If there is evidence, a thorough search will find it. If a thorough search finds no evidence, the lack of evidence might lend support to the ideas that (1) time travel to the...

In a book of astronomy experiments for children I have read a method for collecting and identifying cosmic dust that fell in rain water. If I remember correctly, the cosmic dust comes from space and hangs out in the atmosphere until the rain collects it and brings it to the ground. Snow also collect...

It would not be sufficient to later analyze queries Searching the internet live in 2009 is equivalent to searching a copy of the 2009 internet in 3009. The advantage of making an assumption about motive is that it dramatically narrows the focus of the search. Would a wider net not catch more fish? ...

I've been following everyone's profiles of time travelers and I'm not sure I agree with everything I've read; I just haven't had time to try to make my thesis succinct and coherent if I even have one, so I've held back so far. But while I'm here posting, try these unvetted ideas: 1. Reportedly more ...

bystander wrote:But where's our favicon?

It's been showing up in my browser for hours now. Perhaps next time you start your browser it will seek and find it too. I use Firefox.