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I would like to know how they get the shuttle up on top?!! I suppose using a similar installation to the one they use to get it off again . :) Have you been to the wikipedia link? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shuttle_mounting_point.JPG I love the instruction they've painted on the connector...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070707.html

Is that a bubble or a bow shock wave that I can see? :



You can see it better in the larger picture, which is rotated from the APOD version:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... tzer_f.jpg

You'll be telling me the Web and the Internet are two different things next... :lol: ... they are two different things. :lol: I knew someone would bite... :lol: Yes they are but common awareness is beginning to confuse the two, which of course originated in completely different ways. I hear the ter...

And I hope you don't mind if I make a suggestion. Please remove your email address from your signature or you'll receive more spam than you can cope with. Look who's talking, mr. I don't have it on my signature, and the last time I looked it was hidden on this forum. It may be visible to you as you...

Andy A suggestion does not start with "Please remove, , , ". That is obviously a request. :wink: Then there is the point about spam that you have erroneously tied in with emailings. :? One must ponder the why in this case. I say well done also. Yeah, well I didn't want to tell him to remo...

The author wrote "lays" for "lies"--a common mistake; but accuracy is important across disciplines. :? Thats a fair point, but if you could show precisely where the mistake was it would make it easier to correct. A link to the page like this would have been helpful: http://antwr...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070703.html

Yeah, I'd agree with this point. Occasionally there are pictures where a scale would be really helpful.

I also thought this might be a water droplet some time back. I found many images of the droplets over the whole mission and they were unchanged. They all look like clear epoxy adhesive, and it is easy to see that water or ice would not last for years under the heat that is present during some of th...

Hi Everyone,

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070629.html

Does anybody know what the brown curved feature above and to the left of the nebula is?
Is it a separate feature or actually part of the nebula?

Confused wrote:Thank you, Andy.

The important thing is that it is not easy to see.

No probs mate.
Its a great picture, and from 190 nautical miles away too.
What's that in Cubits I wonder...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

I cannot see it. I did read. You are assuming that I can see it and that I did not read. I am tired of people thinking they are smarter than they really are. These forums are a magnet for them. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html Some of us are keenly aware of how thick we are... :lol: I...

btw, there's a great image in Case' link. The Wikipedia page is quite an eye opener. Although saying a country uses metric doesn't quite show the full story, as it doesn't say how much of the population of that country abide by their 'official position'. We're supposed to be fully metric in England...

That may very well be true--except that the area of a sphere is not equal the the area of a circle with the diameter of the sphere. If this is the level of thought that people on this forum exhibit, there's no point in wasting my time in trying to ask questions on it. Oh please . Don't you think as...

Location: Oakworth, Yorkshire, England I'm sorry, it was not until now when I noticed the above "location" thing; it was so ignorant for me to assert that only americans cannot imagine that there is whole other world beyond their borders that may - unlike them - be using metrics since I r...

But APOD is aimed at everyone. And a lot of people viewing APOD don't use metric at all. A lot of people don't use... that... emm... I mean, they do not even know how your god-given american unit system is called. ...followed by imperial units in brackets. Oh, thank you, now I know. I don't underst...

Most computers come with a calculator. Many even have a 'convert units' type of function. Also check out http://www.onlineconversion.com/ one mile -- 1.6 km 570 feet -- 175 m 300,000 ton -- 272 million kg 130 feet -- 40 m 26,000 miles per hour -- 41,839 km/h 9 miles across -- 14 km But of course sc...

Actually, i meant I liked the word 'codswallop'. The picture is nice too. Cod's 'Wallop' is the eggs from the Cod fish. It's used as a general term (here in England at least) to describe anything that is useless, rubbish or undersirable. As opposed to Caviar, presumably. Sounds good too, especially...

I was going to say that Dysnomia looks more like one of those holes in the surface of Mars...
OK, I'll get my coat...

Andy, we (moderators) do not "run" this forum, we only keep it clean. As I recently said , I think you can join in, I guess we could always make use of another spam fighter. Nereid is currently board admin, but I'm affraid she's not "running" the board either, in that she can't ...

makc wrote:ha ha, moderators here have nothing to do with APOD :p

I beg to differ, as the forum you run has greatly increased my interest (and knowledge) in the subject matter.
Please don't sell yourself short, great value is placed by the people who visit this forum as well as APOD.

first post a meaningful reply to proove yourself to be not a spammer I'am not a spammer! I want to join.. Wow. A reply! There's hope for you yet Olivia. Unless you're in denial. :lol: No? It looks like you're in then. Welcome. All you have to do now is either ask a question or answer one. That's pr...

Susan wrote:Guess VanGogh didn't need today's equipment -- today's APOD is akin to Starry Starry Night.

I thought I'd seen it somewhere before...



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060626.html

When I downloaded the APOD fo 6/12/07 and viewed it full size, I noticed a white spot in the upper left corner. This portion of the picture did not show up on the web page view of the picture. The spot appears in an L shaped opening between the plume trails. Can you identify this object? http://ant...

Using red and blue glasses the 3D effect of this APOD is superb. It is probably the best such 3D effect I've ever seen. Thanks to Laurent Laveder for an excellent APOD. :D Yeah, me too. :) Although I occasionally seem to be able to make it look 'inside out'... like I'm staring across a fish bowl an...

I look at APOD every day and am amazed at the immensity of my power. Of all the life forms on this planet, this little ape can sit at his desk and inspect the cosmos from a distance that would take a billion lifetimes to travel, even at the speed of light. I can comprehend all that is mine to compr...