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Astronymus
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by Astronymus » Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:38 am
Pretty sure "humans" are not counted among the intelligent lifeforms.
»Only a dead Earth is a good Earth.«
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DL MARTIN
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by DL MARTIN » Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:52 am
There's no free lunch.
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XgeoX
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by XgeoX » Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:30 am
Astronymus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:38 am
Pretty sure "humans" are not counted among the intelligent lifeforms.
More scurrilous insults from dolphin posters!
I will consume you in my free dolphin tuna!
Eric
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XgeoX
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by XgeoX » Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:43 am
Wow,
Just look at that gorgeous green belt of vegetaion and how Madagascar (an island only well known because of it being a province in Risk
) is covered with it not to mention the gorgeous white water clouds.
You know I get wanting to explore Mars in person for a year or two (I would todo it!) but I don’t get wanting to finish your life out on that cold, drier than we can imagine and bereft of blue and green planet drinking and eating waste derived food. I’d rather let probes do it.
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Roger
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by Roger » Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:02 pm
A couple of the interesting things that this image shows rather subtly are a narrrow, bright limb band at the left edge of the Earth, which is absent on the right side because the right side is a terminator, not a limb; and a specular reflection from the ocean next to Africa, displaced slightly to the left of center because of the relative positions of the Sun and the photographer. Bright limb bands are also seen (in images and also visually) with Venus and Mars. Specular reflections are detected from the lakes of Titan at wavelengths longer than we can see (long enough to penetrate Titan's atmosphere).
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orin stepanek
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by orin stepanek » Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:07 pm
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Beautiful marble Earth; Best place in the Solar System: Glad I live
here! Kitty think so too!
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Fred the Cat
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by Fred the Cat » Sun Feb 06, 2022 5:13 pm
Perhaps Webb will provide
evidence about how
common water is in other solar systems.
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JohnD
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by JohnD » Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:19 pm
" potentially intelligent species such as dolphins and humans", who are mostly harmless.
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johnnydeep
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by johnnydeep » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:15 pm
Astronymus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:38 am
Pretty sure "humans" are not counted among the intelligent lifeforms.
Which is why there's no comma after 'dolphins'!
...including potentially intelligent species such as dolphins and humans.
That is, both humans and dolphins are counted as among the merely
potentially intelligent.
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XgeoX
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by XgeoX » Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:14 am
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:07 pm
happy-kitten-kittens-5890512-1600-12001-1024x768.jpg
Beautiful marble Earth; Best place in the Solar System: Glad I live
here! Kitty think so too!
Another reason to hang out on Earth until of course the dawn of star kitty…
Eric
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