Starship Asterisk*

Thank you APOD for a nearly unbroken stream of free and wonderful pictures. Doubtless it takes much work to bring them to our screens. Thank you for occasionally putting in a puzzler like this QR. I like variety. MS

Try this one on for size, Apodians!

APOD: My gosh! What is wrong with people? I thought this (QR Code) was as scientifically valid as any posting you've done in the past. It doesn't take too much memory to bring to mind the long ago effort to post a message on a satellite that would be decipherable by an alien race. So why wouldn't this be an indication of the effort needed to determine how intelligable a message would be to someone outside our civilization, let alone some of us in it? Let's have a little imagination here!
APOD, I appreciate EVERYTHING that you put on this website. It has been, and will remain one of my favorite websites; one whose pictures have graced the background of my computers both at home and at work. I shake my head in wonder at the ungratefulness of people criticizing your wonderful daily offerings from not just the field of astronomy, but from Astrophysics as well as Geophysics. All one has to do is to remember the early Nineties when almost none of what we see now was even around. Even the pictures from the late Nineties cannot compare in quality and resolution to what is common today, especially after the advent of Hubble.
So, personal to Zerro1: Lighten up! You ought to be glad this website is here at all!!!
Go, APOD!

Anon wrote:.... I certainly don't understand where the hate is coming from.

America, mostly.... Like a load of spoiled brats being offered an apple instead of their usual pile of donuts....

Hello, unlike most people here, I don't find the idea of todays APOD so terribly bad for once. I have printed the QR and posted it in our lab. Well guys, keep on your good job!
S.I.

Ann wrote:

Beyond wrote:mtbdudex, in your picture -ring around the moon- what is that little green orb at about 4-o'clock??

I was wondering that too, although to me it looks blue-green.

Ann

I think its internal lens reflections,not 100% sure, I left it in there instead of Post Processing it out.

I don't have a smartphone nor any other easy way to read the message, so I hope the answer is given with the APOD very soon so as not needing to find it by having to go through many pages of replies.

For interest I copied the properties of the image and pasted that into the reader brought up through the credit and it came up with a different image pattern, though I was still no wiser! I'm but still ing.

DavidLeodis wrote:
I don't have a smartphone nor any other easy way to read the message, so I hope the answer is given with the APOD very soon so as not needing to find it by having to go through many pages of replies.

For interest I copied the properties of the image and pasted that into the reader brought up through the credit and it came up with a different image pattern, though I was still no wiser! I'm but still ing.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 78#p159178

Holy shit. I love astronomy, but you nerds are waaaaay too passionate about APOD. As if each and every day for you is fueled by the picture and information they force feed you. Everybody relax, for tomorrow is another day, and hopefully an APOD you approve of.

neufer wrote:

DavidLeodis wrote:
I don't have a smartphone nor any other easy way to read the message, so I hope the answer is given with the APOD very soon so as not needing to find it by having to go through many pages of replies.

For interest I copied the properties of the image and pasted that into the reader brought up through the credit and it came up with a different image pattern, though I was still no wiser! I'm but still ing.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 78#p159178

Thanks neufer. On the page brought up through the link you gave there is a post by Valio » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:20 pm which states "QR code for the URL of the English Wikipedia Mobile main page". Is that therefore the correct answer

It's a link to APOD's home page.

leon.l7027@gmail.com wrote: There is still nothing in this world that was not created by Christ, imho.

Silly question and most definitely off-topic, but I want to ask Leon: "in that case, who created Christ?".

Answers on a postcard please...

gobblecackle wrote:Thank you APOD for a nearly unbroken stream of free and wonderful pictures. Doubtless it takes much work to bring them to our screens. Thank you for occasionally putting in a puzzler like this QR. I like variety. MS

Much work? Really?

bystander wrote:It's a link to APOD's home page.

Thanks bystander.

I was kind of hoping that when I scanned the code it was going to say " be sure to drink your Ovaltine" !!!!!

BLAMY wrote:
I was kind of hoping that when I scanned the code
it was going to say: "be sure to drink your Ovaltine" !!!!!

That clueless numberless crossword puzzle grid was far too hard for me to fill in. I shall have to stay with doing (occasionally) the very hard level Sudokus.

PS. neufer's Ovaltine's 'Secret Squadron' sounds great fun.

Those were the days! Gangs, armed with secret decoder rings, high on Ovaltine.

Talking of Ovaltine and astronomy this link may bring up a http://www.nnhs.info/astro/astroovaltine.php

All this talk of Ovaltine is making the water I'm having with my lunch seem very unappealing. If we had a grumpy emoticon, I'd use it here.

owlice wrote:All this talk of Ovaltine is making the water I'm having with my lunch seem very unappealing. If we had a grumpy emoticon, I'd use it here.

Grumpy emoticon huh Hmm... there seems to be some -Grumpy- in the second post up. Perhaps you could make a -Grumpy emoticon- out of it , O' Wise one.

DavidLeodis wrote:Talking of Ovaltine and astronomy this link may bring up a http://www.nnhs.info/astro/astroovaltine.php

Galileo would be amazed. Probably more about the Ovaltine coming in a tin can, than the telescope.

owlice wrote:All this talk of Ovaltine is making the water I'm having with my lunch seem very unappealing. If we had a grumpy emoticon, I'd use it here.

Serve any of these?

http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smilies/flame.gif
http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smi ... e20Out.gif
http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smilies/cussing.gif
http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smilies/spam1.gif
http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smilies/angry5.gif
http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smilies/protest.gif
http://www.astroamateurs.org/images/smi ... olent1.gif
http://astroforo.net/images/smilies/icon_badteles.gif
http://www.espacioprofundo.com.ar/foros ... rillos.gif
http://www.espacioprofundo.com.ar/foros ... losive.gif

That's not grumpy! This is grumpy.


Jeff Dunham's Walter

I wonder if it could be shrunk enough to be used as an emoticon I'm not very good at all with that kind of stuff.