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by Beyond
Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:20 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Music Thread.
Replies: 334
Views: 350444

Re: Music Thread.

Gee, i haven't heard that since the movie 2001.
by Beyond
Sun Mar 06, 2016 1:39 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Cities at Night (2016 Mar 05)
Replies: 15
Views: 3566

Re: APOD: Cities at Night (2016 Mar 05)

Coil_Smoke wrote:Thanks for the great and totally detailed answers...

(Don't Tell Me The Moon Is Blue)
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Don't tell that to these guys. They're singing to it.
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by Beyond
Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:34 pm
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: Hubble Breaks Cosmic Distance Record
Replies: 5
Views: 1448

Re: Hubble Breaks Cosmic Distance Record

So that's where Teletubbies come from. Who would have guessed.
by Beyond
Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:53 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Animalia
Replies: 141
Views: 181818

Re: Animalia

by Beyond
Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:52 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
Replies: 1300
Views: 1057229

Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?

Just saw a meteor just miss Orion's belt on the north side. It was only visible for a length just a little longer than the belt. Good thing it missed, or the blue seven sisters might have had red faces. :lol2:
by Beyond
Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:12 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Northern Pluto (2016 Feb 27)
Replies: 3
Views: 2304

Re: APOD: Northern Pluto (2016 Feb 27)

Hmm... looks sort of like a not quite clean egg.
by Beyond
Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the... (2016 Feb 25)
Replies: 26
Views: 15399

Re: APOD: Highest, Tallest, and Closest to the... (2016 Feb 25)

The acceleration of gravity isn't determined only by the distance from Earth's center, but by the local density of the crust. As a result, Huascarán Peak in Ecuador, which is slightly closer to Earth's center than Chimborazo, actually has the smallest acceleration of gravity on Earth, 9.7639 m/s 2 ...
by Beyond
Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:53 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: USA's Northeast Megalopolis from Space (2016 Feb 24)
Replies: 17
Views: 6104

Re: APOD: USA's Northeast Megalopolis from Space (2016 Feb 24)

Surprisingly, i recognized Long Island Sound before i discovered some of the cities were labeled.
by Beyond
Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:34 pm
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: HEAPOW: Saying Hi to Hitomi (2016 Feb 22)
Replies: 5
Views: 1278

Re: HEAPOW: Saying Hi to Hitomi (2016 Feb 22)

I hope Hitomi can catch the catastrophic catastropy that's about to occur in this thread when the binary fur balls come together and go..... POOF!!
by Beyond
Tue Feb 16, 2016 3:12 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: From the -Can you believe that!- Files
Replies: 96
Views: 46067

Re: From the -Can you believe that!- Files

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/civil-servant-who-did-no-work-for-six-years-found-out-by-officials-preparing-to-reward-him-for-long-service/ar-BBpqw3K?ocid=spartandhp Don't let this APOD Robot find out, it could get some ideas and we could not get any new APODs anymore and we will probably be s...
by Beyond
Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:28 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
Replies: 115
Views: 25614

Re: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)

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by Beyond
Sat Feb 13, 2016 12:21 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Yutu on a Little Planet (2016 Feb 13)
Replies: 7
Views: 2813

Re: APOD: Yutu on a Little Planet (2016 Feb 13)

Whhheeeeeeeee! With the interactive, you can go round and round and round and round and round.... till you fall off the Yutu-go-round. I also noticed that Yutu did a donut. Even though it was a plain donut, any moon donut is special, but then, Rob is the expert on donuts.
by Beyond
Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:10 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
Replies: 453
Views: 104146

Re: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)

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by Beyond
Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:40 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
Replies: 453
Views: 104146

Re: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)

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by Beyond
Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:57 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: xkcd: What If?
Replies: 363
Views: 426981

Re: xkcd: What If? #144

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