Starship Asterisk*

This is "The Dawn's Left Hand" is it not? Of Omar the Tentmaker & Edward Fitzgerald? of Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry." http://apod.nasa.gov/a...

orin stepanek wrote:The whale name fits; but the other doesn't look like a hokey stick to me. If the small elliptical were a little closer to the whale's head it could pass as a waterspout from the whales blowhole.

Orin

Looks a little like a field hockey stick.

I finally remembered where I saw a similar, even more striking photo of this phenomenon... Duh, right here at APOD. :D http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040112.html Nah. Obviously aliens. My fellow Vegans. Spaceship AGEV13 I shouldn't wonder. Dummies always blow it, show themselves to local natives.

Thanks Chris & geckzilla. Great site Mr g----,

It fair makes your head spin, don't it? My head, anyway.

What I want to know is why, if the universe is expanding, are there any collisions between the galaxies? Should there not be more space available? The expansion of space is nowhere near strong enough to overcome the local effects of gravity. That's why the Earth isn't expanding with the Universe, a...

What I want to know is why, if the universe is expanding, are there any collisions between the galaxies? Should there not be more space available? The expansion of space is nowhere near strong enough to overcome the local effects of gravity. That's why the Earth isn't expanding with the Universe, a...

What I want to know is why, if the universe is expanding, are there any collisions between the galaxies? Should there not be more space available?
Is the expansion uneven? If so, why?

Perhaps we should have sent along a phonograph with the discs attached to Voyager. Now a mere few light hours away from the planet, those discs were obsolete before they left the Solar System. It will mystify any eventual discoverers much as the famous Bush Barrow gold "lozenge" has mysti...

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8 votes, (6 for, 2 against).

Seems there's no overwhelming demand for this....

Great shot.

Chill out. Loosen up. Have fun like they did.

Don't damn the site with your first posts. It's not nice.

To borrow a phrase from country music artist Lee Greenwood, " I am proud to be an American" when I see these pictures. Make that 'proud to be human' and I'd agree with you. I prefer the oft quoted 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind' statement as being far more ap...

Thanks Qev. Interesting.

Hi, I just wonder if the moon is really made up of gray stones and dust. thanks Harry All replies deal with Harry_h's question of colour. But as he points out there is a lot of dust. Also a lot of craters. Must be quite a dusty "explosion" when any meteorite hits the surface. Has any such...

one mile -- 1.6 km -- 4.94 Eiffel Towers 570 feet -- 175 m -- 190 shoelaces 300,000 ton -- 272 million kg -- 359,000 Volkswagon Beetles 130 feet -- 40 m -- 130 breadboxes 26,000 miles per hour -- 41,839 km/h -- 19.3 times the Concorde 9 miles across -- 14 km -- 3431 Volkswagon Beetles Laughed so ha...

bringbackpluto wrote:Can anyone explain to me what dark matter is?

Well discussed here, in terms even I can understand!!

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007 ... moke-ring/

And btw if you see harry or Harry of "smile & live another day", run!!!! he'll get you all tied up with Plasma Cosmology:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology Sorry harry, :D :) just smile & live another day. :) :) :) And headaches cured by coffee are a sign of caffeine w...

Today's APOD shows a brilliant and beautifil galaxy 60 million light years away. How do we know it, or indeed any other of these galaxies and far off objects, are still there? Actually I would guess that it's not at the location we see it at... It's moved considerably in the last 60 million years s...

Hawkgirl, Nice analogy ! It carries the details well. OK, so everything is moving, and it's not where we see it in our present time. The further away the larger the error a-la intrinsic vectors. That's just how the universe is. If gravity travels at the speed of light, then our locale won't be sens...

[quote="hishadow"]Harry, I recently stumbled across a great introduction to physics dubbed Physics for Future Presidents , taught by a man called Richard A. Muller (UC Berkeley) . The course teaches basic physics for non-physicist. Hardly any math is involved, but the ideas of a wide range...

ta152h0 wrote:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070222.html

Excellent APOD, made even more excellent by annotating some stars and the Southern Cross. Pass the beer

Second that. Going to fridge for beer

Edit: It's an old image, from Endurance crater on Sol 180, 7/26/2004. See: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer/images.cfm?id=738 Anyone notice the little round light spot in the image, just to the left of the shadow of the rover's "knee"? Could that be the remnant of a geyser, or maybe j...

harry wrote:Hello Kovil

What do you think of the BBT?

Hello both.
What do you think of reality as a hologram:

http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

Aren't we all just participants in a dream and won't we all simply vanish as so much vapor when God Wakes Up and has his first cup of coffee? I think we'll all vanish well before that. I know one hell of a lot of people that have already done that. And those who gathered up the golden grain And tho...

While I do not know (nor does anyone else for certain) the precise shape of the universe (we only know that we can observe roughly 13.5 billion light years in any and every given direction), I don't think it is flat though. There was a time when the earth was thought to be flat (and according to th...

What is the favourite theory of Cosmologists for the shape of the Universe? I thought it is now considered to be FLAT, or only slightly curved. If so, does it have two surfaces & therefore boundries? Even if it's saddleshaped or trumpet shaped. Or am I just too simple-minded? What about a soccer...