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- Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:32 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: Challenge: Find blogs running longer than APOD
- Replies: 12
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Re: Challenge: Find blogs running longer than APOD
APOD is the first item in my Daily Weekly category of bookmarks. Before APOD, before pictures on the World Wide Web, back in the day when the Internet was just newsgroups, e-mail, and telenet (where I somehow acquired an account on Princeton's connection, which does not work anymore) there was a thi...
- Tue May 17, 2011 1:22 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the... (2011 May 16)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21427
Re: APOD: Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the... (2011 May 16
The Tower of Jewels or Echium wildpretii
A beautiful plant, but I do not want one in my yard.
A beautiful plant, but I do not want one in my yard.
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:13 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia (2009 Jan 12)
- Replies: 176
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Re: Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia (2009 January 12)
I know I do not know anything about the crystals that make the pillars. I wonder if the shape of the lamps might have something to do with the upper shape of the pillars. I the lamps are shaped like a bowl or even a trapezoid, then maybe the fanning at the top of the pillars is caused by the directi...