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I guess that the paths of the jets tell a good story about how the holes are orbiting each other. You can see exactly where one is heading in nearly the same direction as the jets and when it starts moving back the opposite way. I wouldn't have guessed it to be this way.

I recommend you consider your target audience. If you're aiming for that 20-something audience, things like Digg and other social networking sites could be very good for bringing in those types of people. As for worries about digg being a commercial website... well, no one said they didn't want to m...

I am pretty sure I went to this place in 2001 but I don't remember the painting. It seems for some reason we weren't allowed to go far into the church. There may have been a service going on at the time. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info on the place, particularly not in english. I rememb...

You are incorrigible. It is possible, I admit to that, but it is also highly unlikely. This is something like looking at two photos of the same person and claiming that the second photo of that same person is a manipulation because the people look the same. Edit: By the way, I'd be interested in see...

Amendment to my statement that there are no signs of manipulation on Bud's photo: There is one line on the left side. This is a stitch line that went unnoticed. To make a panorama sometimes photographers take several photographs of the same scene and stitch them together. This can produce a higher r...

You are right, Photoshop can be used to manipulate photos. However, you should not take a photographer's integrity so lightly. First, check the photographer's website for his other photography. His name is Bud Kuenzli, believe it or not he is a real person and you can find many of his other aurora p...

I'm an expert on Photoshop. You're wrong.

Aviatress, please explain in depth what you mean and include images to illustrate what you mean. I expect to see a similar end result to the APOD photo from you. Given your expertise on the subject it should be no problem.

Yes craterchains, that's exactly what I wanted, the downfall of the imperial system! And in fact I thought that would happen by linking one paragraph of a wiki! Seriously, go fuck yerself.

I still think that you are overly presumptuous and even arrogant in thinking that "someone from another country" only " might " access APOD. I would venture to guess that people from around the world visit APOD just as much as people in the USA. Sweden has a huge population of ne...

You are making too many assumptions. If I didn't know you're just being naive I would think you are insulting. For the record there are many instances in which "miles" are used instead: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aantwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov+miles Whichever is used probably depends on w...

Bma, that last link was an april fool's joke.

I don't read either, and that was a mediocre analogy at best. Really, there are just some topics I have no input on but still like to read. Is that hard to understand? My problem with harry is that he rarely, if ever, elucidates on anything. He acts passive aggressive rather and, if anything, obfusc...

You can just erase the quote if you don't want it there in the message body before you submit. Or you can find the little buttons at the top and bottom of a thread that say "post reply" ... phpbb isn't designed so that you only reply to a single person. Rather, you just write a reply to a ...

Trust me, if I had a question, I would ask it. I don't. This is more like reading a book to me than participating in a conversation. I don't talk to books.

Ok harry, my opinion is that my opinion doesn't matter in a discussion in which I have not enough knowledge to form any kind of intelligent response to. Maybe this is the fundamental difference between you and I.

Hehe, don't worry, the way the message board works is unless you are subscribed to a topic you just keep checking back to see where new posts are. Quote or no quote I usually read every reply at this forum since it's relatively quiet here.

Those moons sure are small. Or should I say Saturn sure is big?

This topic is out of my realm of expertise so I don't have many comments on it. I do love reading the posts here because they interest me. You're always in the middle of the discussion trying to say something without actually saying anything though so it's always taking me off track which can be kin...

I can imagine if you hacked a military satellite someone might be knocking on your door soon too.

You might try MODIS. I have been using it lately to track the fires in California. http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Their version of "real time" might not be what you are looking for though. And as always there is cloud cover all around. Google earth does a good job of only showing you ...

It wouldn't work, Dome. For one, say you have an old record... that groove is actually a big spiral. And if you look reeeeally close at one, you get this: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/images4/figure5.html CDs and DVDs I guess work in a similar way but they use pits... Here's a closeup o...

I think the rank of Sunday funnies is higher than you've ever achieved, crater. I think so far you've attained the rank of cheap doctored tabloid photo.

Well, personally, I was only thinking about how impossible it is to get a good "image", like, say, the photos we have of close ups of the sun's sun spots, jupiter, saturn and saturn's moons, mars, etc... it's really superficial and not scientific at all. More of an insatiable interest than...

It's a shame you can't write like Nereid, harry. I can't understand most of what you are getting at because you leave your posts with so many voids and seem to have only a basic grasp on literacy.