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by Redbone
Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:44 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Slope Streaks in Acheron Fossae on Mars (2010 Mar 01)
Replies: 24
Views: 8297

Re: APOD: Slope Streaks in Acheron Fossae on Mars (2010 Mar

I don't buy the red/white dust overflowing the black base material for the simple reason that this ignores the very unusual presence of a black base material. It (the black base material) would long ago have been covered if it were not being replenished. Some process is creating a very black base ma...
by Redbone
Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:15 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Exceptional Rocket Waves Destroy Sun Dog (2010 Feb 23)
Replies: 65
Views: 17348

Re: APOD: Exceptional Rocket Waves Destroy Sun Dog (2010 Feb

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In a frame from the movie link that jaseoldboss provided there is indeed a new feature of some phenomena that apparently shoots up faster than the rocket just as the ripples form. Very interesting, it occurs at ~10 minutes, right at the end.
by Redbone
Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:51 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)
Replies: 238
Views: 68992

Re: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)

Yes, it is a ring. And the face does not look happy. The drawing appears to be that of a child. I'd also go with a a young Leonardo da Vinci.
by Redbone
Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:04 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Atlantis to Orbit (2010 Jan 17)
Replies: 14
Views: 2768

Re: Atlantis to Orbit (2010 Jan 17)

No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. Not true, Socrates, Plato, Archimedes, lots of folks could of understood it. As far as corporate welfare, at least launching a rocket accomplishes something, unlike the billions of dollars w...
by Redbone
Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:47 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Andromeda Island Universe (2010 Jan 09)
Replies: 10
Views: 2227

Re: Andromeda Island Universe (2010 Jan 09)

A good APOD. It is important to understand that it wasn't very long ago, our parent's and grandparent's time, that scientists did not believe that there were galaxies other than our own. They also did not believe that all matter was composed of tiny elements called atoms. Edwin Hubble, largely credi...
by Redbone
Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:47 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Early Microscopic Life On Mars? (1996 Aug 07)
Replies: 6
Views: 2324

Re: Early Microscopic Life On Mars? (Aug 7 1996)

I believe that they were shown to be inorganic in origin. As I recall, they were some sort of naturally occuring crystaline structure or, perhaps, carbon nanotubes.
by Redbone
Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:38 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Force from Empty Space: Casimir Effect (2010 Jan 03)
Replies: 23
Views: 10992

Re: A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect (2010 Jan 0

Sound the non-conformance alarm! Arm the blasphemy torpedoes! Activate the la-la-la noise cover-over! We have posters who are skeptical of accepted and settled science! Of course the universe started as an entity the size of an atom and exploded in a creational big bang and has been expanding ever s...
by Redbone
Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:55 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Now there's an interesting shot! (2009 Nov 1)
Replies: 35
Views: 4855

Re: Now there's an interesting shot! (2009 Nov 1)

harry wrote:Did you notice the dot on the bottom right hand corner?
You've got a stuck pixel.
by Redbone
Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:10 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Starry Night (APOD 2009 October 11)
Replies: 19
Views: 4082

Re: Starry Night (APOD 2009 October 11)

Art historians claim Van Gogh's ear 'cut off by Gauguin'
by Redbone
Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:28 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Starry Night (APOD 2009 October 11)
Replies: 19
Views: 4082

Re: Starry Night (APOD 2009 October 11)

The moon is in the last quarter so it is rising on the southeastern horizon, sometime well after midnight in summer or fall. The bright star low and to the left is Sirius. To the left and above Sirius is the head of the dog. Just to the left of the moon is Jupiter. Venus is directly above Sirius.
by Redbone
Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:05 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: A Doubled Ringed Basin in Mercury (2009 Oct 7)
Replies: 25
Views: 3886

Re: A Doubled Ringed Basin in Mercury

I believe that the chances of it being a double impact are actually quite high. The chance of any one occurance of double, centered impacts is small, but of the millions of impacts, to find one in which there is a centered double impact, and then say that the chances that this occurance is a double ...
by Redbone
Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:20 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)
Replies: 32
Views: 4019

Re: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)

Well I learned two new things today, that’s pretty good. I know that the overall mechanisms of the tides are too complex for a casual discussion, but still the basics should be attainable. I have found that NOAA has the best info that I could find on the internet. 1) Although the moon produces a tid...
by Redbone
Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:05 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)
Replies: 32
Views: 4019

Re: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)

it is the rotation of the earth that pulls the tidal bulge along way ahead of the moon’s gravitational vector. That is a sort of backwards view of the time lag between the passage of the moon and the next high tide. The tidal bulges in Earth's open waters are an idealized view of the result of tida...
by Redbone
Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:33 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)
Replies: 32
Views: 4019

Re: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)

1) Why are there two high tides and two low tides per day? The tidal force of the moon pulls more strongly on what is closer. The moon pulls up water on the near side of the Earth relative to the solid Earth. The moon pulls up the solid Earth relative to the water on the far side of the Earth. This...
by Redbone
Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:29 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)
Replies: 32
Views: 4019

Re: Eclipse City (APOD 2009 August 20)

Note how the moon's path in the sky intersects the horizon at different angles throughout the year. The June moon (2008) is clearly rotated clockwise compared with the May moon (2005). When the sun rises in the far northeast the full moon rises in the far southeast. Distance Altitude Azimuth ------...
by Redbone
Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:54 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
Replies: 621
Views: 67952

Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

Looks like it's trending back towards recent averages.

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by Redbone
Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:50 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Milky Way Over The Badlands (2009 Aug 18)
Replies: 34
Views: 5541

Re: The Milky Way Over The Badlands (2009 Aug 18)

I believe that this particular photograph goes beyond simple illumination and long exposure times. As described, it is a mosiac of four pictures. It also appears that some technique like air-brushing has been applied to blend, soften and contrast the landscape rendering it two dimensional.
by Redbone
Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:42 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
Replies: 621
Views: 67952

Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

To be sure, there are legitimate scientists and researchers who ascribe to the theory. And I’m sure that climatologists are both stunned and excited that their discipline has actually become sexy and high-profile over the last 10 years. But no one bothers to point out that there are just as many le...
by Redbone
Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:34 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
Replies: 621
Views: 67952

Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

Have you ever had the Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your house? They can be quite persistent. My mother, god rest her soul, told me how to dispatch them. Tell them that you are Catholic. They will respect your right to choose your faith, as long as you have faith. They know that faith, by definition, ...
by Redbone
Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:15 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
Replies: 621
Views: 67952

Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

...but what I am pointing out here is that the earth experienced a deep low several centuries ago, called the Maunder Minimum. The earth has been warming, gradually, since then. We would expect to see exactly the behavior that we are seeing, the longer stronger warm periods, because the earth is st...
by Redbone
Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:02 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
Replies: 621
Views: 67952

Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

I have to agree on point 5 5) The Sun is in an extraordinary period of quiet. If this continues there are very good scientific explanations of why the earth will enter a new Minimum, just as it did 400 years ago. Actually, the current solar minimum isn't all that extraordinary. It has persisted a f...
by Redbone
Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Global Warming Predictions (2009 April 21)
Replies: 621
Views: 67952

Re: 2009 April 21 - global warming

There are some devastating arguments against AGW: 1) Sir Fred Hoyle is one of the current alarmists (yes I know he's dead) who also partook in the Global Cooling scare 30 years ago. They promoted exactly the same agenda as today’s alarmists, but had a different reason. "...hopelessly compromise...
by Redbone
Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:55 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Antarctic Ice Shelf Vista (2009 Feb 15)
Replies: 381
Views: 37784

Re: Antarctic Ice Shelf Vista (2009 Feb 15)

Re: Red Shift Alternative by neufer on Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:45 pm Speculation ≠ Science <<For Feynman, a cargo-cult science is one that has all the trappings of science-the illusion of objectivity, the appearance of careful study, and the motions of an experiment-but lacks one important ingredient: s...
by Redbone
Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:29 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Antarctic Ice Shelf Vista (2009 Feb 15)
Replies: 381
Views: 37784

Re: Antarctic Ice Shelf Vista (2009 Feb 15)

If the moderating trend in the global warming cycles persists, then we will get less than 0.5 degree C more warming over the next two centuries. If the Greenhouse Theory has any validity, we might get a bit more than 0.5 degree more warming—but not much. We tend to forget that the climate forcing p...