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- Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:28 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Num num num
- Replies: 267
- Views: 58186
Re: Num num num
Here’s a pic from early on in the business, before I was doing yeast donuts. You can see the Donut Robot in the background...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:20 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Num num num
- Replies: 267
- Views: 58186
Re: Num num num
I love Cake donuts; plain; chocolate glaze; or white glaze! :wink: Hi Orin, From 2002 to 2006 I owned and operated an independent coffee and donut shop with two outlets here in Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The first product out the door was a cake donut based on a recipe from the mid-30s rep...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:08 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1119231
Re: Weather!
Thanks Art.
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1119231
Re: Warm Arctic => 5 BIG dips of the Jet Stream
omps.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuV-A2wXcAAjP-x?format=jpg I’m curious what that chart is showing, Art (the one above the snowman, the one that for some reason didn’t get included in this quoted text.) What is a Global TOAST Analysis? I tried looking it up and found Test of Astronomy Standards...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Perseverance / Ingenuity
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16813
Re: Perseverance / Ingenuity
Everything on a robotic mission is either integral to the craft or is doing science. The ISS demonstrates another reality: humans are incredibly inefficient science machines. The astronauts up there spend a lot more time fixing toilets and looking for leaks and doing general housekeeping than they ...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:35 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Earth Endangered By New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans
- Replies: 8
- Views: 22321
Re: Earth Endangered By New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans
I've come to the conclusion that when i said i wanted to be somebody when i grew up i probably should have been more specific I always like to see credit given. The line “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” is from Lily Tomlin’s one-woman show The Se...
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:59 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Shortest Day!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2609
Re: Shortest Day!
We don’t adjust our calendars by one day every four years because the shortest day of the year is not named January 1. We adjust the calendar because the Earth takes 365.24 days to go around the Sun once, and for convenience we don’t try to do something with that extra quarter day every year (which ...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:57 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1119231
Re: Weather!
Here in Nova Scotia, specifically in its largest city and on the Atlantic coast, we’re having one of our mild winters. It’s only snowed three times so far, with both of the first two melting away and yesterday’s snow likely to do the same over the next couple of days. But it isn’t always like that. ...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Mammatus Clouds over Mount Rushmore (2020 Dec 07)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3386
Re: APOD: Mammatus Clouds over Mount Rushmore (2020 Dec 07)
I liked it better before the 3D graffiti...
Rob
Rob
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M16: Pillars of Star Creation (2020 Dec 06)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11825
Re: APOD: M16: Pillars of Star Creation (2020 Dec 06)
I’m curious when the common name was changed from “Pillars of Creation” to “Pillars of Star Creation”. Were religious groups complaining?
Rob
Rob
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:42 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Gravel Ejected from Asteroid Bennu (2020 Sep 16)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3817
Re: APOD: Gravel Ejected from Asteroid Bennu (2020 Sep 16)
I thought that the cameras in such a machine could resolve up to some-meters-wide objects. Should we conclude that what is shown as a ejection are big rocks? Could gravel-size objetcs (some centimetres) be seen? I would very much appreciate any coment coming from you to clarify this. Clicking on th...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster (2020 Sep 09)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6483
Re: APOD: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster (2020 Sep 09)
The cluster is always described as blue, of course, but there’s clearly a reddish-brown aura about it. Is that not part of the cluster? If so, why the color difference; if not, what is illuminating it? Rob That is clearly the extended dust cloud that the Pleiades themselves have blundered into and ...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:28 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster (2020 Sep 09)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6483
Re: APOD: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster (2020 Sep 09)
The cluster is always described as blue, of course, but there’s clearly a reddish-brown aura about it. Is that not part of the cluster? If so, why the color difference; if not, what is illuminating it?
Rob
Rob
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:15 am
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: Bugs? Problems? Report them here!
- Replies: 385
- Views: 2376009
Re: Bugs? Problems? Report them here!
I'm unsure that this question/remark/issue is not reported yet, but the HTML format is purely obsolete on the APOD pages. More precisely, and annoying (for me) the <p> tags don't have a matching </p>. Consequently, it's hard to parse a page for keeping a specific item, like the description (eg. wit...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:38 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8569
Re: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
Oops, yes, Avatar! My brain insists on calling it Pandora. I am not in control of its output.
Rob
Rob
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 11:34 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8569
Re: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
I almost forgot to mention my favorite recent sci-fi (ish) movie, Pandora. It’s actually a morality play about the Amazon and similar sites of human mismanagement of the planet, but it’s just plain beautiful to watch. And other than floating mountains (Unobtainium!) and actually getting there quickl...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 11:29 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8569
Re: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
I never saw Zardoz, but alas, I did see both the embarrassing Barbarella and the unbearable Dune. I sort of liked the first Dune novel, it had intriguing ideas, but I never made it through the next one. While I consider 2001 A Space Odyssey to be one of the best sci-fi movies because of its realisti...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8569
Re: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
I always liked Inconstant Moon. Didn't know it had been adapted. I don't even know that it's reasonable to call it science fiction. A Boy and His Dog was an amusing movie, although I don't know that I'd include it in my favorites. Maybe I just don't have good taste. I suppose the only science ficti...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:26 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8569
Re: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
Hi Ann, Some of my favorite science fiction films and TV programs have been very close versions of prize winning science fiction stories. Two come to mind: Harlan Ellison’s novella A Boy and His Dog, a dystopian after-the-bombs-fall kind of story with a shock ending which was made into a full-length...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:08 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8569
Re: Portrayal of Science in Entertainment
I started reading science fiction when I was 10 years old, and that pretty much ruined me for reality. If the author/scriptwriter is good enough, I can accept whatever they throw at me with equanimity. I mean, if you can accept faster than light travel, which is a requirement for any kind of space s...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:54 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
- Replies: 1303
- Views: 1144293
Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?
I was ready to go out for a look at the comet this evening but the sky is too hazy at the moment. That’s generally true here, being on a sea coast and our location on the downwind side of the city, so no surprise there. But I happened to notice in another app that the ISS would be passing almost dir...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:23 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Starry Night by Jean-Francois Millet (2020 Mar 13)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21013
Re: APOD: Starry Night by Jean-Francois Millet (2020 Mar 13)
Thanks all. As usual I learned much more from the discussion than I had asked for.
Keep on asterisking...
Rob
Keep on asterisking...
Rob
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Starry Night by Jean-Francois Millet (2020 Mar 13)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21013
Re: APOD: Starry Night by Jean-Francois Millet (2020 Mar 13)
Has Millet accurately rendered a particular group of stars? Or is it just a star-like spatter of paint?
Rob
Rob
- Fri Feb 07, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Sunset Night Sky over the Grand Canyon (2020 Feb 04)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9744
Re: APOD: A Sunset Night Sky over the Grand Canyon (2020 Feb 04)
Don't tell me what the poets are doing Don't tell me that they're talking tough Don't tell me that they're anti-social Somehow not anti-social enough ... I'm not sure why you posted these lyrics, but it would have been polite to include the songwriters' names. Songwriters: Gordon Downie / Johnny Fa...
- Sun Feb 02, 2020 4:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Zeta Oph: Runaway Star (2020 Feb 02)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3480
Re: APOD: Zeta Oph: Runaway Star (2020 Feb 02)
Hi, The image is both gorgeous and impressive when seen at full resolution. What are the two red dots seen right and left of the arc bow ?There are also some green dots in the background, they look more like background galaxies. Alex Hi Alex! You gave me a tough nut to crack there. In fact, I wasn'...