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Can you imagine a human colony on the surface of this planet? Growing crops, to feed themselves ... somehow? With no water to speak of? Their energy sources being ... what? Not solar power, from a very very distant sun. No water on Mars? Au contraire... There's plenty to be found, but it's locked u...

In the center of the scree are more than ten rocks whose surface have multiple round nodules. All the other rocks have flat planes as would be if cleaved from sedimentary formation. What are the nodules? Sedimentary conglomerate? Did Curiosity have a close look to be sure they were not signs of lif...

Reminds me of the Drac that Louis Gossett Jr played in Enemy Mine
Perhaps this is where the Drac home world is located

If you live in an area that is currently close to active fires, and the smoke is evident in your skies, the orange color could be from smoke. Wildfire smoke always makes both the Sun and Moon seem redder

You are an extraterrestrial... you are overseeing Earth... you are from Light Years away... you really going to use....Radio????? Our radio signals dissipate about 1.5-2 light years out, before it blends in with the background radiation....NOBODY is watching Lucy.... and NOBODY else's Radio signals...

it also required the forced relocation of more than 9000 valley residents who were compensated approx $1,800 USD each

Going by the video, between 10 secs to 20 secs, it appears our Sun (Sol) is part of a Globular Star Cluster. Is that really the case? Or is it a result of insufficient data of the Milky Way so far? I think it's just marking the edge of the data. Absolutely. We're not inside a globular cluster. Trus...

The second NGC 1672 link takes you to a Youtube Video Zoom in which does resemble a Barred Spiral It also looks like a double ringed galaxy with the rings offset enough to create the illusion of a bar

That Big Rock, right in the middle of the image of this rather large Icy Dirtball, appears to indicate layering...Warped Layering

It was an interesting read though.
The current estimated population of 7.45 Billion would have approx 40sq' each or 5' x 8' on Hawaii
Who wants the Beach Cubicles??

ta152h0 wrote:how big would this sphere be if you take the volume of every inhabitant of the Earth and create a sphere representing this volume ?

You could also take all the human inhabitants and relocate them to the Hawaiian islands with some room to spare

You only need be concerned if you find a rather large POD under your bed before you go to sleep

In this DEEP exposure, it is abundantly clear that NGC 5195 is obviously the M51s Good Right Hand. But who is the accusatory finger pointing at??

Bill, A simple solution would be to have a second monitor that is rotated to portrait. Not only would this provide for viewing portrait oriented images but it also makes web browsing more enjoyable as most web pages scroll in portrait direction Here is a brief description of that process http://www....

Ann,
I love the way your inquisitive mind works

Possibly a nickel/iron meteorite remnant
Although, with the context of the other rock above it, and the strategically placed dark patch which resembles an eye socket, I am reminded of the breathing apparatus of Darth Vader

Fred the Cat wrote:Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson fictionally writes of a multi-generational space voyage and the burden it places on those who didn't get a vote to undertake the problems of lifetimes in space. Quite thought provoking.

And the Robinson family set off for Alpha Prime only to get Lost in Space

In other words..
Correlation but not causation?

Thanks for the further info Neufer

Guest wrote:If you were at the north or south pole, would you see just a figure 0 or an inverted U shape?

It would look similar to this Antarctic Analemma just different dates
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150923.html

The term " persistent train " reminds me of Stephen King's " Blaine the Mono " but much more ephemeral and not nearly as evil. Some seem to last a fairly long time and the physics of the phenomena seems worthy of much more study . Thanks for today's persistent Perseid! :ssmile: ...

Very dry after several years of extended drought. Though Temp wise, my particular neck of the woods (Sonoma County) is pretty much normal for Summer. We had a Big Fire in Lake County last year (September) that burned much of Middletown and another that burned North of Clearlake at the same time. Now...

Andromeda should consider herself fortunate, If the track had been even slightly different (viewpoint anyway) Her heart would have been pierced

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7VN37TAreE0/Tkp2keVFCiI/AAAAAAAADYA/hGZwKZqeKkU/s1600/Malmofestival-09+008.jpg The Malmö festival. Photo: Stefan Stenudd. Lovely day today. Sunny, warm, 21C. We haven't had many of those days in August. The Malmö Festival is in progress, so people are filling the downtown ...

What a Happy Face
Kind of like Charlie Brown