Starship Asterisk*

My first impression was wow, what a beautiful picture. After ogling it for awhile I wanted to know what the posters had to say and was surprised to find only 3 posts, counting Otto. Then, i remembered today is Sunday and most likely a rerun from the past. It was, though I don't think I was aware of ...

My first thought upon seeing today's APOD was What a Beautiful Image. :D My second thought was that we were coming under attack by flying saucers. :shock: Reading that the attackers were 100 million ly away I decided not to worry about the attack at this time and just enjoy the beautiful picture. Th...

LocalColor wrote:After spending several years attempting this ourselves, we appreciate the effort put into an image like this! Thank you.

Several years attempting to record infinity? I agree with Buzz Lightyear that we should get Beyond involved with the problem presented with infinity.

Today's picture and discussion sure looks like yesterday's news. I am looking forward to this government shutdown fiasco ending.

I like today's APOD. I like the APOD most every day. Thank you to the artistic side of the persons posting all the APOD pictures. Thank you Ann for pointing out the differences in how much actual light/brightness would be found in these different galaxies; how dimmer and unobservable many would be i...

I see you agree we must investigate.

Peanut Clusters - you know that peanuts are in there, but you can't see them or get individual info on any given peanut due to the dark matter surrounding them. The obvious conclusion is that the unknown dark matter of space is actually chocolate. :P This conclusion should speed the investigation of...

Sorry, but please Not Rocky. I just don't see him in there. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fstallonezone.com%2Fimgs%2Fnews%2F2010%2Fsept%2F091910rocky_fanart.png&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fstallonezone.com%2Fwordpress%2F%3Fm%3D201009&docid=t4kUlgQluXofQM&tbnid=V_1WHa9J_rpREM...

'Global warming' plus 'nuclear winter' = temperature control. Now if we could just learn how to control the thermostat, and decide who will control it. The APOD was interesting but the discussion has left me feeling that every individual poster wanted to promote their own agenda to the exclusion of ...

With everybody smiling, waving and mooning we may send the wrong message. The inhabitants may think it is a signal for help and mount a rescue mission for us. Then WE would be responsible for causing an accidental invasion of Earth.

Thank you APOD presenters for the attention getting fiery image which grabbed my attention. Thank you Geckzilla for the greens and browns which presented another image for my mind to view in another way, and it was the same image. The greens and browns presented the landscape on a scale which made t...

Hi JohnD', Pardon me for opening my thoughts regarding your question which I don't feel was answered: JohnD wrote: How do the different elements become so stratified in the nebula. so as to produce the gradation of colour? I would suspect the different rings due to the different elements traveling a...

Ann, don’t try saying or naming the numbers. Just stay with the numbers themselves, as the numbers don’t get confusing while the names do. Convention beyond nine-hundred-ninety-nine million has not been reached by all countries. In the United States, and a lot of countries, one thousand million make...

You write the book, you make the slippers silver. You make the first color movie, you don't use slippers that will look like the came out of a black and white film. You supply your STAR with footwear which give her a little more glamor. Notice the reference to a star so we stay on an astronomy topic...

As the chute was settling, i suspect it may have drug the cameras some which gave a little more view than if the chute had detached upon touchdown. Glass half full or half empty? The real issue is: Is there enough left in the pitcher to refill and let us continue drinking the success of the mission!...

Neufer, thank you for the movie link. The best of their era... Edmond G. Robinson, Bacall and Bogart, (Burt Lancaster was of another era), AND James (Jimmy) Cagney. They don't make'm like they us'ta. (Oh, the shame). Another shame, Jimmy's sailing yacht, the Swift of Ipswich, needs funds for refitti...

Thank you StarCuriousAero. Only 44 posts? The link you sent is why I love the Starship Asterisk*. Opening my mind to so many new relevant things in the world through an ageless science and stepping out of the bounds of just one science. I hope you and other will continue to use this forum as a way t...

Beautiful. Really, really beautiful. Thank you, Stefano De Rosa.

In the case of NuSTAR, its state-of-the-art telescope... After all the discussion of sending a state-of-the-art camera to Mars, am I to assume this state-of-the-art telescope was state at time of launch or state a couple years prior to launch. Semantics seem relative, however I would like to know. T...

Thank you, both, for the reply's. I was too blinded by the light pollution in the darkness of my mind to see the answer without help.

Bill

Love the APOD pic. Guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder as my eye seems to be viewing an entirely different picture as moonOmoon. Based on the caption of the APOD I expected to see a pic similar to the pic from the day before. Very pleasantly surprised to find an entirely different rendering o...

Second time posting, and this time I am sure it is to the wrong forum. To which forum should it be posted? My memory of the moon landing and the first walk did not involve a lot of “live” coverage. I read about it as a note in the news received by our submarine radio. Terrific news that mankind had ...