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Thank you for that sallyseaver, very interesting..... Mater of fact this whole thread is that.

@ sallyseaver. YOUR COMMENT ( What I hope you take from this is that your consistent thoughtful participation in the Asterisk Forum matters and is appreciated more than you know )
i COULD NOT POSSIBLY AGREE WITH YOU MORE, MR. CHRIS PETERSON YOU ARE JUST THE BEST

That is a trip, very, very cool and interesting stuff to say the least. What's actually happening is nothing even near what i was thinking. Thank you so much for answering my question so completely neufer

I didn't notice your reply till right now, been super busy around here to busy if fact to even log in here at APOD Indeed, i purchased that device a short time ago, works rather well but i'm thinking that the winning move is not to mess with these type of lights anymore in the future. I am only goin...

As any given star is busily fusing hydrogen into helium and or helium into carbon thus keeping its outer layers from collapsing Are there like hundreds or thousands of different nuclear explosions going on in its core, thus keeping its outer layers afloat (so to speak) Or is there just single very l...

Unless you're like me, to cheap to buy new Christmas lights every year sometime this week you went out to your garage and found your box of lights plugged them in and NOTHING. Yep one bulb goes out somewhere on the line and the entire string of lights goes out You ever wonder if China is wired the s...

I was under the impression that apple wasn't doing so......I was way wrong' As for all the things windows 7 thru 10 can do that xp can't or does not support, i have no need for any of them in my line of work and xp ran my printer just fine. I loved xp As for gaming, this is how bad its gotten around...

key punchers (circa) 1975 still remember the three languages....Cobol, fortran and Rpg I believe they were IBM and what a hassle those were. Chris, I about fell out of my chair laughing about the resonant frequency thing with the Xerox Sigma 7 thank you so much for sharing that story Good old xp, th...

Indeed geck and as long as prisons are for profit businesses ( actually even listed as fortune 500 companies ) there is and will be pressure being put on certain entities to keep them full........ I liked Bernie Sanders stance on this situation, wish he would have been the democratic nominee...........

The whole lot of you bust me up.
Nonetheless i don't care what you think, say or what you place under my avatar. My name is mud

As per the Wile-E-Coyote cartoon in which Mr. Coyote shows his business card ( Wile-E Coyote, super genius ) and at the end of which states ( My name is mud ) I ask for the (my name is mud) to be used under my avatar rather than (science officer) I'm told that these are chosen at the whims of the ad...

Since day one every post in this thread has been like salt in an open wound, I swear I've got to get out of southern California / the suburbs of Los Angeles sometime soon.

@ Chris Radiative heat transfer is not very efficient. You have several solar masses of material heated to may thousands of kelvins. It takes a long time to lose that energy via the emission of photons. In a vacuum which is at least 200 degrees below zero........That's amazing because it seems like ...

Yes, yes but rather after such star explodes and the materials have expanded outwards light years - they are still glowing hot - like for years and years after

What with the cosmic microwave temperature being somewhere around -270.45 Celsius and interstellar space being i don't know what, but surely cold.
How is it that; say when a star explodes, the star parts and gasses stay so hot as they expand into the universe.

Surely the time will come to pass that quadrillion ton asteroids of gold, platinum or even pure carbon ( theres a thought how many karats would a hundred ton diamond be ? ) can and will be mined and possibly some even deflected into the oceans for later retrieval. If this were to happen in large eno...

That is almost the greatest thing ever, the machine and the cups.
Never thought about it before but i never would have guessed that liquids would stick to the sides of a container ?
Obviously i would have imagined that liquids in a cup would simply float out and drift away
Awesome post bystander

Art and xkcd Thank you Persephone Regio .....Yep that is 8-) very 8-) The supposed rules / guidelines for the naming of Pluto's surface features look to have gone right out the window IE - Underworld deities...... Sputnik Planum ? Nonetheless I like the name and it's pretty darn awesome that an Amer...

Off topic kind-of " which sometimes seems like my nitch in life here at the Asterisk ) Where giving names to rifts, valleys, ice mountains and etc are concerned Since our probe is the first to image Pluto and its moons i would imagine that we solely retain the right to name them all so do we gr...

They creep me out and i'm not suggesting you can drag a bug under a car and then run into its web and they will drop right down on that bug, No. I'm telling you they will do that from first hand experience

In a picture that yahoo has posted today that scientists are calling the heart / The image is kind of blurry but do we know that, that is the surface of Pluto and not clouds or do we / I mean scientists already know that pluto has no clouds Nevermind, answered this question with a little reading aft...

The Black Widow, now that's a creepy spider. Generally don't spin a web to catch flies, moths and etc, Don't catch flies like jumping spiders can. But if you have say a car sitting in your driveway that's been there awhile then there are Widows living under it. Run a string from side to side or fron...

The suspense is killing me period exclamation point . !

Ok well in defence of my blatant screw-up please keep in mind that I am Polish - Ukrainian / Byelorussian

Orin The actual title of the song is dance little bird I'm having issues trying to embed the youtube video, maybe possibly you can find the time to do so sometime? The title is chicken dance with Bob Kames As one might imagine with having a last name that ends with ski i grew up listening to roll ou...