Starship Asterisk*

Maybe they are lovespawn rather than loved. They do bear a certain resemblance.

Assuming they used a stable isotope, nope.

Because there were a bunch of them distributed all around the world so that other countries would have their own means of discerning the weight of the kilogram. The difference wasn't caused by the one weight by itself but rather its comparison to the other weights. Well, that's what I read anyway.

I became curious to find the other circles in this image since, by luck, the particular circle in question had the good fortune to not receive any bright foreground stars to steal attention from it, or many background stars, or galaxies, or clouds or anything to obscure its intensity. So to aid the ...

I just realized that jimmy said what I wanted to say much earlier in this thread but in about 3 sentences. I suck.

But you guys use them everywhere and you've still dodged the question of why not they are commas and not any other form of punctuation. It is obvious what they were intended to do in this case but that's not really what I want to know. Anyway, I'm going to be calling the comma protection agency. It'...

What? Hey now, I wasn't referring to you when I was writing that at all . I was just saying that not all ideas that are unconventional are good or correct, that's all. I don't mean it as an attack on you or anything you said. I hope you did not take it that way. And I do apologize for creating such ...

Groove, those are actually craters, not hills. I made another observation about the location of the dark material here:
http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 8429#88429

But it got lost and forgotten in the clutter after we started talking about aliens, or something.

I imagine that it is orange for the same reason the sun turns orange when its light shines through the atmosphere near the horizon.

As I said, I am not an astronomer. I am a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years of experience in my profession. In that time I have found that when a possible solution that lies outside CURRENT ACCEPTED practice and knowledge, it is most often greeted with curt dismissal and outright derision...

What's up with the use of commas in this forum? Is it some kind of international thing? I have noticed that all Brazilians laugh like "HUAHUAHUA" so I guess maybe there is some country where commas in strange ways just as Brazilians type their laughs in an amusing way.

I wouldn't be surprised if some Frenchie just got finger oils on it and over the course of 200 years it flowed off the thing.

http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... hp?t=12799
keep them consolidated

You guys better tell Google to take into account the expanding of the earth's circumference before they lay their fiber optic cable across the pacific...

Might be shopped for color and contrast levels (I do see a sharpening filter for sure) but I imagine the photo itself is quite real. The sky isn't really hazy, those clouds are just really diffuse. You can see the light bending all around the moon which pretty clearly which indicates it was definite...

According to a wiki entry on the topic it can happen both during spring and autumn, signots. In spring it happens after the evening twilight while in autumn it happens before the morning twilight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiacal_light

That's not the whole martian city, that's just the airport.

Damn, you tricked me! I was thinking this site was becoming a sad magnet for wackos. I was the turkey all along.

Hah, I tried that too. Unfortunately very, very little is revealed from toying with the shadow.

Maybe if a photo were taken JUST of the inside without the surrounding, relatively bright land. Otherwise it's just like trying to take a photo of the inside of a house from the outside on a sunny day.

jimmy: Traffic patterns really have nothing to do with seismic activity. If that were true, we would have earthquakes every morning and evening as commuters traveled to and from work in various places where there are more people during the day than there are the night... think of a large city with s...

I don't know about living in those... they seem like scary vertical shafts! I think I'd rather live in a place where wheels aren't useless. Still, I really wonder how deep they are and what lies at the bottom. Rocks? Lava? Some kind of liquid? Sarlacc?

The new phpbb as far as I know doesn't have any kind of plugins type feature. Phpbb has always been all about modding rather than plugins. I know that things like adding new profile fields were added along with some other handy admin features and the ability to add custom BBCode. I guess you could w...

I know this is an old thread and it is off topic but I couldn't resist doing some image manipulation on this tycho star map to make it glow. And the reason the thumbnails of it are like that is probably because someone ran auto-levels or auto-contrast on the thumbnail because the stars would otherwi...

It's possible, just not without dynamic pages. The way I understand it now each time there is a new APOD, 2 new html files are added manually and then the archive list is updated manually. Or, perhaps it is automated in some way but in any case once the html page is there, it's very hard to make any...

That sounds kind of akin to the little paperclip guy in MS Word popping up when you do something familiar and trying to give you friendly "advice" :lol: The closest I can think of would be to put an AJAX powered search box next to the posting area which you could use to search the APOD lis...