Starship Asterisk*

MadCat-75 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:11 am The home of the giant ant lions... xD

Hehe, had the same thought. Now I'd like to see those giant Mars ants.

A marble.

Pannick wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:41 am But if it happened 699 years and 6 months ago we would only know about this year - wouldn't we? Help!

Roughly around that, yes. We get a few hours warning though. Neutrinos will escape the star in peak numbers before any light or shockwave can.

Damn, and I was thinking Orion looked odd this year... or the last. Something felt "wrong" in the constellation. As there've only at most been less than 2 full days this year I'll assume it was late last year. About 10 days or so ago I had read a news article about the fading of Betelgeus...

Does this decade discussion help us with Betelgeuse in any way?

Damn, and I was thinking Orion looked odd this year... or the last. Something felt "wrong" in the constellation.

On the second crescent from aboce you can see the string NASA attached the fake moon disc to. All that effort to make us think the Earth is not flat.

neufer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 12:53 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean wrote: After finding the self-timer unit at the end of the EVA, when it was too late to use, he threw it as far as he could.

So, that's what frustration in space looks like.

Interestingly the ridges show different angles. Looks like this moons orbit and axis changed a lot.

During the last full harvest moon I took some photos with my new Canon SX70 HS. On one photo I noticed a little black dot. First I thought it might be an insect, like a moth. But when I enhanced the details the "wings" look quite narrow. Could it be a satellite? :?: IMG_1729_ufo.jpg cut-ou...

Great, now it will be run over by tourists.

Soon to be detroyed by some pesky apes.

I watch out the window and can see this mountain.

It will be difficult to operate in that environment (understatement) For instance, landing to recharge, I hope it won't melt through the methane (or whatever) ice on the surface and then get frozen into place. Maybe a Zeppelin type robot could be used, a gas bag to keep it aloft while the RTG recha...

Inferno Very interesting. I wonder what the arc and filaments are... they remind me of "Bow Shocks" from stars or something, but they look different, almost like lightning... and so many of them... a magnetic thing? they appear aligned.... :---[===] * Plasma trapped in terrifying magnetic ...

What kind of energy source will be used?

Reminds me of those impacts on Jupiter. But those wouldn't rotate, I guess.

My old eyes seem to have found three meteor streaks besides the satellite, and I have the same question as Ann.Three bright objects on the left of the photo, the brightest is farthest left, then second brightest with the least bright farthest right. Two planets and then Antares? I only see one mete...

sillyworm 2 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 1:34 pm I'm lovin the black blob!

This "blob" is a cloaked Thoorelican warship. And as long as we can see it on this picture we are on the safe side.

If however further data leads to a different discovery then the current news is fake news. I am not a scientist but I think that astronomers are too quick to assume things. Then it would be "false news". But you can be quite sure scientists today learned from mistakes in history not to ma...

Soo....um.... is the shadow made by gravity holding the light BACK then ???? or is it... illuminating gas on the other side...is projecting towards us...but the black hole is an object between and is blocking the light??? Thanks... :---[===] * I imagine this "shadow" more the a result of ...

Science is amazing.

Only 8 out of 10? :ssmile: :wink: Hemocyanins (also spelled haemocyanins and abbreviated Hc) are proteins that transport oxygen throughout the bodies of some invertebrate animals. These metalloproteins contain two copper atoms that reversibly bind a single oxygen molecule (O2). They are second only...

BDanielMayfield wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:55 am Iron is the 6th most abundant element in the universe. It massively throws its weight around, as today's APOD shows.

8 out of 10 blood cells liked that post.

I can imagine it to be a normal process that an object of that size forming in a proto-planetary disc gathers more material along its plane of orbit or equator. Rotating and gathering layer after layer on the same area. Once the mass is too great the structure collabses under its own gravitation and...