Members PKTrono Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Originally Posted by arthurdent'd Sun Ra knows, Space is the place. yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urinate Forever Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 I Love Space. I wish I lived in Space. I want to fly to the moon and establish a solar wind farm. In Space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urinate Forever Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 In space, all pedals are cheaper, too. Mooninites have no use for analog bucket brigade technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tape Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Originally Posted by christianatl I think that's CG. The real thing doesn't look nearly as perfect. Still amazing though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tape Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 this 3 book series is essential reading for anyone interested in space and the future of space. it's incredibly realistic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LSDis4me Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 I wish I was a Spaceman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Turd Furgison Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foB6XJyQizo posted from my mom's ipad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Computicus Posted October 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 So, dark energy. My wager is that the "field" of gravity is based in on a fractal composition and there's a branch point between gravity as we know it and dark energy, making it essentially giant gravity. Same theory applies for quantum gravity.If that's right, this is proof that i won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members christianatl Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Originally Posted by Urinate Forever In space, all pedals are cheaper, too. Mooninites have no use for analog bucket brigade technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faldoe Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Originally Posted by Computicus We need a lounge. Venus traces a pentagon in our night skies for eight years, while simultaneously creating two distinct (star, rose) patterns in the paths of earth and venus around the sun. There's a perfect hexagon in the atmosphere of saturn's north pole. Bigger than the earth. It's apparently a result of the weather. ever read this book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hiwatt Bob Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 "to make an apple pie from scratch, we must first create the universe." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GREC Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 This is incredible.34:45 is awesomely weird! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEg7dF5rg8Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members !i!i!i!i!i! Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cryptosonic Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Right here Jackson, treated myself to an eight inch dob last spring. If you guys think pedals are expensive check out premium eyepiece prices. Good god.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RadioSilence Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 I have a 4.5" dob but I was given it for free. It does pretty well for my light-polluted city skies; clouds/bands on Jupiter, Galilean moons, Saturn's rings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arthurdent'd Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 best thread ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Originally Posted by christianatl http://news.discovery.com/space/satu...ry-solved.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Originally Posted by Hiwatt Bob "to make an apple pie from scratch, we must first create the universe." Had dinner (technically breakfast, but when you're observing all night, your schedule is topsy-turvy) with him up at Mt Wilson when my grandfather took me up there (he used to work there & at Mt Palomar, and would take me up with him on weekends or in the summer occasionally). He was nice to me, which was pretty cool for a 12 year old kid who was really into astronomy. I was quite fortunate, and got to see & do things / talk to people that few undergrads ever get the chance to do - all when I was still in Jr. hi. Like Christian, if I was better at math, I probably would have become an astronomer or astrophysicist. I'm still very interested in the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members big69 Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 What? You had breakfast with Carl Sagan? I liked you already Phil, but damn...he is my hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arthurdent'd Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 wish I had a math/science brain as well.......but all I have is this cursed art brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members big69 Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Then you do have a math/science brain. Science and math are not cold calculated processes (obviously math sorta is), rather they require as much creativity and imagination as any other art form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arthurdent'd Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Originally Posted by big69 Then you do have a math/science brain. Science and math are not cold calculated processes (obviously math sorta is), rather they require as much creativity and imagination as any other art form. although I like the sentiment of this, that math and science are not cold and calculated at the theoretical level, in practice there are correct, quantifiable answers to problems. I agree about the creativity being equal as well, but art just doesn't operate the same way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members placebo62 Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Originally Posted by GREC This is incredible. 34:45 is awesomely weird! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEg7dF5rg8Y some of that old Disney stuff is pretty wild. Great images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Originally Posted by big69 What? You had breakfast with Carl Sagan? I liked you already Phil, but damn...he is my hero. Yup. We talked about the origins of the universe, the solar system - even the moon. At the time (mid 1970s), there were three or four primary theories concerning the moon's origin - the fission theory (George Darwin's hypothesis that the centrifugal force of a fast spinning early earth "spun off" a chunk of mantle that became the moon), the capture theory (the moon developed elsewhere and was "captured" by the Earth's gravity in a close encounter between the two) and the co-accretion theory (earth and moon formed in place at the same time), which was fairly popular back then, but in light of the (then) recent geological findings from the Apollo program, was fast falling out of favor. The currently favored giant impact theory wasn't new (the first mention of it that I'm aware of came back in the mid 1940s), but was just starting to be reconsidered at the time due to some of the findings from Apollo. Basically it states that a planet (roughly the mass of Mars) struck the earth at an angle, was largely vaporized, and its core became part of the earth's core while much of its mantle (and earth's mantle) was ejected into orbit around the earth, and within an astronomically very short period of time (within a century) formed the moon. IMO, this theory is probably the most likely due to the near identical isotopic signatures of earth and moon rocks, and it also accounts for the relative lack of iron in moon rock. I could tell you the rest of the story, but it's hard to believe, and frankly, a bit embarrassing, so I'll skip it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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