Starship Asterisk*

Seti is bogus. Radio signals blend in with the background radiation "noise" after 1.5 to 2 light years distance. This means that nobody is watching "LUCY", or listening to old radio shows, even in the Proxima Centauri system. So ANY intelligent radio signals from even nearby sta...

I don't like it that much. It's messy and there isn't really anything fascinating in it.

fatcitymax, one thing you have managed to show at least, is that there's lots of ignorance about what we get out of space research. Everything we do there gives us back a lot of useful knowledge that we can use right here on earth. The money put into it is well spend, and leads to knowledge that ben...

My opinions for improvements: - Don't merge threads. It doesn't help anyone. Most of the time it only creates confusion, because people don't know where the thread went, and because the two subjects that the moderator thought were the same, are not. It's too subjective, so it just messes up things, ...

I don't see what importance wikio has.

It looks like digg, but less popular, but with more advertisement, and entries created by staff, instead of by users.

I don't see much value of the site.

Anyone else notice the eye on the left side of the picture?

I also thought it looked like bare skin with tatoos!

What I am suggesting is the option to quit right after changing the wallpaper. The programmer don't need to make any assumptions for that.

Most people do turn their computers off daily.

(and it's no better or worse for your hardware to be on 24/7. It's made to handle it either way)

I now know that there is an official apod rss feed. (the other thread is locked though, so I have to ask these new requests in a new thread). On the apod page, a line needs to be put in the html header, that specifies the location of the rss. That way, and icon will appear in the url bar, and people...

I wish these programs would have an option, where they just quit right after changing the wallpaper. There is no reason for them to be constantly running. If it's just added to the windows startup, it can just update the wallpaper, when the computer is started, and then quit. Unless your computer is...

Why were these two threads merged?

That makes it completely unreadable, and nothing makes sense.

The moderation here is horrible! How could anyone think it was a good idea to merge them?

What is "above", when weightless?

Print it and fold the paper so the two squares touch!

That should be the easiest and most convincing way for you.

I suggest you print the picture, cut out the two squares, or fold the paper, so you can put the two squares next to each other. The square with the letter A is the exact same color and shade as the square with the letter B. They appear different, because of the different surrounding colors/shades, a...

It's time APOD catches up and makes an rss feed for the APOD page.

There are people who've made such, but wouldn't it be prefereable with an official one, actually from APOD, guaranteed to be correct?

Then show the result. Otherwise there's not much point in the post!

The death start looks like mimas.
Mimas looks like the death star.

I means the exact same. If one is true, the other one is too. 8)

haha, it's the first thing that came to my mind to. I actually came here to the forum, just to tell how much it looked like the death star, but you beat me to it

If you people took the time and actually read what people wrote, you would see that it's clear that people did indeed read the artists comment, and that it just doesn't explain anything that makes it plausible. I don't see how this image by Wally Pacholka can be a single, unedited exposure. I would...

If others would take as much time to look at the artists' comments and other works as they do thinking up ways the photo couldn't possibly be real, they might not have to eat crow. If you people took the time and actually read what people wrote, you would see that it's clear that people did indeed ...

I doubt that it is real! I understand how the dark cave could avoid having trails, by being briefly lit during the long exposure. However, 5 things about this picture make me suspicious. 1 - I am sure the cave would have been lit enough from moon and starlight, that it would have shown without any f...

1. "Eggs in Orbit (20080923)" - about technical/astronomical issues (4 posts) 2. "Wrong picture ..." - about the selection of the "big" image (3 posts) 3. "Haumea" - about the grammar in the APOD description (4 posts) On one hand, these threads have nothing t...

It's making it difficult to follow the line of conversation, aside from that, who cares about a couple of duplicate threads when 90% of threads are spam anyway? ;) cheers! Maybe; but why even start a second thread when it's just as easy to post a reply to the original? Orin Because long merged thre...

Hi Ed! I think sometimes the best thing to do with complainers is to ignore them. The more you reply to them the more they carry on. :shock: :? Orin And I guess you are one of those that think that if you don't write the last post in a debate, then the other person is the one that just keeps on and...

I would like to complain about people who think that just because something is free, you should never complain about it, but just love sky high, no matter what, or stay away. Also these people tend to just have to read the complaint threats, even though they seem to bother them so much. They fail to...

While in college (decades ago), I once wrote a computer program using the Special Theory of Relativity, to compute and list the changes (to an outside observer) in a spacecraft's physical attributes as it accelerated constantly at 1g until it reached 99.9% of the speed of light. It would take the s...