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Ann wrote:Elvis died in August

neufer wrote:"Dance of the seven veils"...

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"Sweet Holy Moses" Sam

That's beautiful, thank you!
Are there locations at sea that might provide a more light-free sky?

On the Lions Head Copyright: Erich Meyer Lion's Head is a mountain located in Cape Town, South Africa, between Table Mountain and Signal Hill [Coordinates 33°56′05″S 18°23′21″E] . Lion's Head peaks at 669 metres (2,195 ft) above sea level. The peak forms part of a dramatic backdrop to the city of C...

In two years Harvey Ball will be eligible: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Day-template.svg/250px-Day-template.svg.png Harvey Ross Ball (July 10, 1921 – April 12, 2001) was an American commercial artist. He is recognized as the earliest known designer of the smiley, which be...

I'm pretty sure that it's a shadow from another cloud out to the right and the line just happens to line up with the summit; taking the picture from another 20 meters to the right or left would create a noticeable parallax. Rays like this can be quite impressive, especially when they reaches all the...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/TheJungleSinclair.jpg/200px-TheJungleSinclair.jpg The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the life of the immigrant in the United States, but readers were more concerned with ...

Area of All of Australia 7,617,930,000 m 2 - divided by - 400,000 new residents per day for 4 years (the length of time Cynthia and Linda have been recruiting) _______________ leaves an average 13 m 2 per individual to Live their Lives (And what of the Australian population in 2011 of 22,651,808, or...

The ISS! I went out to the roof to do some binocular observing, immediately saw a bright (-3) star but cataloged it as an airplane, and didn't realize until a couple minutes later what it was, when it came into my field of view. I watched it go into Earth shadow over Kentucky, 1150km away! http://ww...

Just a quick check...there's no conceivable technology that would ever allow us to touch the Earth's core....right?

The more I watch it the more I really like it! It reminds me of early silent films: grainy and scratchy, and the time is sped up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLBn9KK2Ss0&NR=1[/youtube] Includes Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, a choral and orchestral work that he was inspired to wr...

Oooh! So much to read! Anybody have any suggestions?

(Spurred by discussion of flies hitting the rear window at light-speed, here)

When a fly hits a windshield, what's the last thing that goes through its mind? Sam

The faint inner dust lanes may be tilted somewhat in relation to the overall plane of the galaxy, since the "top" of the galaxy appears to be dished somewhat yet the faint inner dust lanes can be easily seen below the near edge of the main dust ring. It looks to me as if those inner dust ...

I actually managed to get a hole-in-one on my second or third moon!
Shame, because then I kept trying to relive my former glory.

Did anybody notice that on Mimas your ball will be destroyed
and you will be penalized if you try to go over Herschel Crater,
i.e., Death Star's superlaser?

bystander wrote:Fred??? Guess I missed something.

Maybe they're talking about the Turing Test link: http://www.turinghub.com/ ?

I'm reminded of how relatively little we have humanly traveled from Earth in the 50 years since that historic flight. I am saddened by the overwhelming challenge of star trekking outside our relatively lifeless solar system (besides Earth of course). I wish that I had a solution that would take us ...

Three cheers for Owlice!

Uh, absolutely one of the most bizarre images I have yet seen on APOD and it comes with no explanation, only a poem. I'm not a scientest, just an enthusiast. What the heck is this picture? Why does Tycho look like that? What is the blue ring? How big is it? Are those dust clouds? Cmon man, don't ju...

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The slowest speed any two objects can come together is determined by their escape velocities. In the case of the Moon, the escape velocity is 2.4 km/s, and that is the slowest possible collision. Could you explain why this is? The case of an apple falling gently on Newton's head argues against havi...

NoelC wrote:...noise...

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Cluster, n. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgn4SQFgU9Y The Tides of Manaunaun (1912), No. 1 of Three Irish Legends, by Henry Cowell (1897-1965) The Tides of Manaunaun is based on a Irish myth by John Osborne Varian. The quote (taken from Varian) on the top of the score reads: "Manaunaun was th...