Starship Asterisk*

Cool. That's the kind of thing makes a boy want to go invest in some equipment.

I'm looking at all of the open tabs in my browser. Everyone has a favicon. Even APOD has a favicon. But the Asterisk* has a generic dog-eared page symbol. You can use this one if you like. It took me 5 minutes to build and ship it. No charge. http://j3000.com/x/apod/asterisk/favicon.ico Some browser...

Ah, but the Asterisk* is painted on the windward side of the house. If you defenestrate your logic here, it blows right back in on you. Throw it out the leeward side where soft winds may carry it to a happy resting place.

the Universe does not do math This is 100% wrong. With a Wide range of ways to look for the answers, we all limited but to a few This is 100% wrong. Others just use there minds to solve problems. With imagination. Anyone who tries to address modern astrophysical cosmology with imagination and no ma...

Well said, Orca. Quotably eloquent.

Initially warm, then, I guess. But cold soon afterward. If it freezes before hitting the ground, it cracks with a resounding "planck!" - hence the concept of planck time.

As I understand it, I'm talking about cold, wet, jet-propelled dark matter made mostly of fish.

I respect the nerve of anyone who would intentionally place their own name directly in the line of fire of the theorificium venti down under the above illustration. Watch out for energetically wasteful turbulent flow.

vokuhila wrote:vokuhila

In my neighborhood we call it a mullet.

This one (3104x2058) is too blurry to use, but I like it anyway for the plane transiting the sun: http://i.pbase.com/u44/tommytong1972/upload/28377673.83420007.jpg This one (2850x2850) is more detailed, maybe not enough for you, but I like it anyway for the ISS and shuttle transiting the sun: http:/...

I think we will see them radically changing our understanding in next few days. And I think the key to that is deeper understanding of jets. This paper seem to have only scratched the surface: ABSTRACT Chinstrap and Ade´lie penguins generate con-siderable pressures to propel their faeces away from ...

All I see is a cross-eyed face with a side order of plasma on the brain. --- A long while back I read that planetary orbits around multiple star systems are not likely to be stable. Is that true (and thus an image like this, with the observer's planet and satellites? so close to the suns would not b...

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...

Hubble question his own work velocity/redshift even until the day he died. Hubble's questions were those of someone with a thorough knowledge of the subject conducting a critical examination. Do you put your questioning on a par with Hubble's as if you are an expert who can argue the subject from a...

As usual, AWESOME. But where did the white arrow come from on the left side of the pic of M83? That was the second thing I noticed, found in the white gaseous area on the left of the screen. What is it pointing to? Why is it there? :?: Just highly curious. :D Sorry, I see nothing on the left. But I...

Not being spoked seems like a good deal to me.

geckzilla wrote:farting out the sun

sounds exhausting

Discovery News: Wide Angle: Doomsday in 2012?

World Not Ending in 2012, Says NASA
Contrary to what you may read on the Internet, the world is not going to end in 2012. NASA says so.

Good. That settles it. We on Nibiru are also relieved and congratulate you on Earth.

I had a great night's sleep and awoke in a world of bliss where I forgot the existence of the beeping irritant. The post above was the expression of my disappointment when I was rudely divested of my illusion. Sorry for getting so emotional. Apparently every great institution needs a comic villain.

Sputnick.

Какая разница между аккордеоном и кошкой?

Только стоимость, оба они делают те же виды звуков при сжатии их.

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Что такое определение джентльмена?

Кто-то, кто знает, как играть на баяне, но не делает.

neufer wrote:

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002206/ wrote:Weywot, the new name for the moon of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar ...
... Weywot, the moon of Orcus ...

So which is it? I thought Weywot was the proposed moon of Quaoar while Vanth was the proposed moon of Orcus. Do I sound like some kind of RPG player or what?

Never happens to me. Notice how my fingers never leave my hands. Figured you'd fix it so I jumped on you while I had the chance. Just slinging without malice again. And I find Johnny Rico humorous in a starched Heinlein sort of way.

bystander wrote:NGC 981 is in Cetus not Aires, where NGC 918 is.

Johnny Rico wrote:I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!

Storm_norm wrote:Why choose two lines at 90 degrees to point out the region where the event was happening and not an arrow?

The stylish semi-crosshairs catch the eye whether it scans horizontally or vertically, and they will not be mistaken for the mouse cursor. Artist's choice.