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by thongar
Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:16 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)
Replies: 1200
Views: 193510

Re: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)

Hello Kitty

Look at pictures of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade balloon.
The star is one eye.
by thongar
Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:24 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Unusual Spheres on Mars (2012 Sep 25)
Replies: 45
Views: 5720

Re: APOD: Unusual Spheres on Mars (2012 Sep 25)

I actually agree with the impact possibility. Several reasons: 1. Impact on silicate material. This stuff will liquify and splash with an impact droplets formed in the air would form spheres (or tiny sphereicals?) the out side solidifying first. 2. The rain of these sphereicals would would compact d...
by thongar
Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater (2012 Aug 15)
Replies: 22
Views: 6323

Re: APOD: Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater (2012 Aug

The wall as I loosly figured out (not knowing exactly where on the wall it is) is about 25 miles away. that Jeep trail then to look like it does is probably about 1/2 to 1 mile wide. which should make no difference to the conspiracy folk.
thank you APOD
Congradulations Curiousity Team
by thongar
Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:45 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Helix Nebula from the VISTA... (2012 Jan 31)
Replies: 26
Views: 7624

Re: APOD: The Helix Nebula (2012 Jan 31) those Globuals

Gentle People: If a Star is dying and in so doing is tearing itself apart., like all explosions Things are never cleanly obliturated. There are pieces. Those globuals are pieces of the star. Since the star is gas and gravity the Globuals are gas and gravity. This is a given and confirmed by the anal...
by thongar
Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:53 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact... (2011 Oct 02)
Replies: 45
Views: 8209

Re: APOD: Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact... (2011 Oct 0

I had heard somewhere (discovery Channel, or Sci Channel) about reports of a Arizona Meteor Crater size strike in the Amazon Basin in the 1930s, but it was so remote it was never confirmed. As I recall there now is Radar map coverage of evidence, Which is still in a remote area. If this is true woul...
by thongar
Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:34 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Asteroid Vesta Full Frame (2011 Aug 02)
Replies: 31
Views: 8598

Re: APOD: Asteroid Vesta Full Frame (2011 Aug 02)

Looking at the picture of Vesta and the cratered North comment, there seem to be some obviousities: 1. If I were to slam a large rock into the bottom of an otherwise uniformly cratered object, of the size that made a crater large enough to flatten a third of an otherwise "spherical" object...
by thongar
Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 5584: Expanding the Universe (2011 Mar 30)
Replies: 11
Views: 1650

Re: APOD: NGC 5584: Expanding the Universe (2011 Mar 30)

Okay... Expanding Universe Let me get this straight 1) The Microwave Background Radiation is 13.6BLY(billion light years) away. Does this have a red shift? 2) The Red Shift of the 12BLY early gallaxies is very large, And we are looking BACK in time to see this. However the Red Shift of the closer &q...
by thongar
Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:00 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The CMB Cold Spot (2011 Mar 21)
Replies: 57
Views: 11387

Re: APOD: The CMB Cold Spot (2011 Mar 21)

GRAMMAR POLICE ALERT : There is no such word as irregardless . It's regardless. Only. Thank you and have a nice day. :mrgreen: Regardless of what you say, and irrespective of the grammer police, it is a known fact that if I say a certain word and you know what I mean by that word, I fits the defini...
by thongar
Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The CMB Cold Spot (2011 Mar 21)
Replies: 57
Views: 11387

Re: APOD: The CMB Cold Spot (2011 Mar 21)

THEREFORE : I would like to put forward the following: FRYING PAN AXIUM - For Every Given Heated Surface, A Proportion Of Said Surface Will Heat/Cool Faster Than Other Portions Of The Surface, Irregardless Of Size, Statistics And Other Things Like That. It Just Does, Get Over It! Almost. But it is ...
by thongar
Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:39 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The CMB Cold Spot (2011 Mar 21)
Replies: 57
Views: 11387

Re: APOD: The CMB Cold Spot (2011 Mar 21)

This once again proves that in physics the macro duplicates the micro.... The same heating/cooling properties affect my Cast Iron Frying Pan. THEREFORE : I would like to put forward the following: FRYING PAN AXIUM - For Every Given Heated Surface, A Proportion Of Said Surface Will Heat/Cool Faster T...
by thongar
Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:27 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Prometheus Rising Through Saturns F Ring (2010 Oct 19)
Replies: 30
Views: 14471

Re: APOD: Prometheus Rising Through Saturns F Ring (2010 Oct

Reading the caption on this beautiful picture, I am reminded of the following: Chief Technical Writer - Sir, What is this Ground/Water Interface? New Technical Writer - Why it's the Beach, Chief. Chief Technical Writer - Then why the heck don't you use Beach? When a large object (moon?) travels thro...
by thongar
Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:01 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: 7543

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

Biddie67: The Marsquake would be the cause of the dust slide . The slide evidence of the quake. It needn't be a very large quake; a Local meteor strike would cause it if the dust was light enough and the slope was steep enough. A 3-D picture might give some idea of the slope, the mass of the dust is...
by thongar
Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:54 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: 7543

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

Guys: 1. The Red/white dust is flowing over the Black base material. Look between the two big streaks in the center of the picture, you will see one dark area covered with a thin venier of dust showing the black underneath as a grayish tint. Look up avalanche theory. 2. If anyone has built sand cast...
by thongar
Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:06 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Jagged Shadows (APOD 2009 April 15)
Replies: 22
Views: 2403

Re: Jagged Shadows (APOD 2009 April 15)

I just compared this edge picture with some of the pictures of the Encke Gap edge and the F ring, until I read this thread I did not know which gap we wre talking about, but I think my thoughts are still relivent. The alternatly bright and dark region of the edge to me indicates a gravitational wake...