Starship Asterisk*

It looks like a 'hole' in the clouds not a dark cloud in front of a light cloud, especially the way the wisps curl into the darkness, indicating they are in front of the darkness, not the other way around. These astronomers know not what they see. Typical of mainstream analysis. this is the image i ...

In my universe; Gravity and electric charge attraction are the result of a principle of Undividedness showing itself. Momentum and Inertia and Time are the result of a principle of Changelessness showing itself. Energy in its forms of electromagnetic radiation, the electrical nature of matter and ma...

Just the Facts, Jack. Spare us your BBT fantasy's. NASA satellite detects record gamma ray burst explosion. "This burst was a whopper," said Swift The burst was detected at 2:12 a.m. EDT, March 19, and pinpointed the coordinates in the constellation Boötes. Swift's other two instruments, t...

Ola Harry, Yes, two cones with the apex or points, touching in symetrical opposition. A bipolar nebula. But there isn't anything bi-polar about it in a psychological sense. 8) I searched for MWC 922 and Red Square, in X-ray light, but no success. Would be nice to get ROSAT and Chandra to do a wide, ...

They are playing 'pass the cold one' ! It's like a whisper traveling around the campfire. Nice to see you back, Wolf. Firesign Theater did something on this didn't they? something about animals without backbones sitting up, but then they fell over. Interesting how our sense of ourself and our planet...

Yes Harry, I think a similar mechanism is what's causing all these linked photos to make 'bubbles' of explosive plasma, and have the 'hourglass' shape. And also the electric currents in those plasmas are what is making the bubbles curve like a cornucoppia, from the resulting magnetic fields which ar...

Hi Harry, In spending more time looking into the Catseye, I see two explosion envelopes, not 3 as I thought earlier. The perpendicular plane to the long axis of the stellar pole, is oblique from top right to bottom left, as to close and far, from us. Words are so difficult, an image would say it fas...

The yellow star at 11 O'clock is a foreground star between us and the Catseye. My guess is the radial lines around the central object are an artifact from the ccd sensor overclockedexposure. They are not real. As our Sun's planet Pluto is about 3 billion miles away, that equals about 5 hours at ligh...

The dark spots or areas, look to be the place where the wind velocity would be highest passing over the dune shape. This might be why it thaws there first, and the most 'snow' is also blown away along that track. It might be because the wind makes a small tornado as it passes over that cresting poin...

This article in The New Yorker about the LHC was very good, and graspable, it is seven pages, so don't miss a one! http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_kolbert - - - My question for the LHC is, are individual protonic energies of 7-14 Tev encountered in natural space-time? Are...

Speaking of not being able to follow directions; Results 1 - 10 of about 429,000 for neutron stars cosmology. (0.27 seconds) Was the brightest supernova the birth of a quark star? - cosmology ... But the team argues that some neutron stars last only a short time because their magnetic properties cau...

Questions: 1. Exactly what "observation(s)" support "space" as being further generated? 2. What exactly are the implications if there were a vastly larger space? 3. How does the M-Theory play into all of this and does this Theory support a larger volume of "space(s)" th...

sinpix, An aboriginal language has roots beyond what english speakers understand. When Susan Aglukark sings in native language she sounds Japanese in a way. Of course when one is thinking symbolically the electrons jump in ways unimagined and thoughts run to other discourses of imagery. Write us som...

The Universe is both/and; it is both empirical and conceptual, at the same time. Likewise it is both/and; it is both finite and infinite, at the same time. It is a matter of which way you are looking at it, at the time. You can see it as Ying or as Yang, it is both/and. The Universe is not an either...

"If we aren't falling off a cliff often, we're being too conservative." DARPA Explanation: This symmetric cloud dubbed the Boomerang Nebula was created by a high-speed wind of gas and dust blowing from an aging central star at speeds of nearly 600,000 kilometers per hour. The rapid expansi...

Thanks APOD for a beautiful Christmas computer screen background !!!
I've been enjoying it all day !

So where did all the cubic miles of dirt that was supposedly eroded go?
And when?

Remember, as much information as a hologram might contain, it can't hold water. If surface area or length is the dominant factor, there is lots more room for more perimeter length in said photo of the different colored areas. Adjacency is, however, where the fractal ends. A pot of Russian Caravan wi...

Where do stars come from? This is a question that has been on the edge of my mind for a while, and had not quite formed itself into a question yet. The standard model says that the ISM dust aggregates by gravity into a proto disk and that condenses to form the star and the planets, and our solar sys...

Energy, that which is neither createable nor destroyable . . . Energy truly is the Infinite ! In a tangential direction of thought; space, time and their inhabitant, energy, is studied here. (several equations of interest - see part 2) http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/425155 The Astr...

Infinity ; what a concept. If the Universe is infinite, would that then indicate that there is no God? As how could God create something truly infinite, it would by definition be larger than its creator, a logical impossibility, when one is talking creatively. If there is a God, then the Universe is...

Yes, I need you to help keep me on track, my tendency to wander into literary cuteness can never substitute for scientific reference. To narrate my point; politics, philosophy, religion and social milleau cannot be separated from the large view of science in society. In the small view it can to some...

For our beloved Nereid, no labor would be too great. (are you sure you are not really Ourania?) I would ask that I be allowed to spar within this contest without one or both hands being tied behind my back in terms of allowable references from which to quote. Defending an accused Salem Witch from th...

Reply to Nereid Why is the BBT relegated to history's dust bin of failed theories? Because, and let me count the ways; 1. The Universe did not begin like The Bible would have it. It has always been here and will always be here, there was no Big Bang. 2. Redshift is not dependent on recessional veloc...

Fiery, I agree, the accretion disk theory of solar system formation has an inherent conservation of intrinsic angular momentum component about it, which would not account for the several anomalies of certain planets and moons. On the other hand I don't see any patterns on Europa that look other than...

<< Using your bubble analogy, the universe is the skin of the bubble, not the volume enclosed by the bubble.>> Oh, That is a good one! A good way to see it clearly, as to what they are trying to say. As BigBangTheory (BBT) would say it, the Universe started at a point, that point then expanded in al...