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03/19/2009 05:48:35 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by vxpra:
Originally posted by goc:
Originally posted by vxpra:
Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral? |
argh. i knew it ... no bad intensions or prejudices here ... it is the name of the powerful vessel/gun in starcraft pc game ... it's all my imagination. sorry. |
I knew the source.....sometimes I just like to be difficult. :) Of course the question remains Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral? |
Because their lack of teeth and floppy lips make it impossible to pronounce sibilants? Or maybe "yamamoto" means "exploder of planets" in Venusian, and the homophonic similarity to the neval personage is mere coincidence ... |
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03/19/2009 06:01:31 PM · #27 |
oh...
I misread it as yomammadaho... |
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03/20/2009 03:11:08 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by vxpra:
Originally posted by goc:
Originally posted by vxpra:
Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral? |
argh. i knew it ... no bad intensions or prejudices here ... it is the name of the powerful vessel/gun in starcraft pc game ... it's all my imagination. sorry. |
I knew the source.....sometimes I just like to be difficult. :) Of course the question remains Why would the Venusians name a class of battleships after a Japanese Admiral? |
Because their lack of teeth and floppy lips make it impossible to pronounce sibilants? Or maybe "yamamoto" means "exploder of planets" in Venusian, and the homophonic similarity to the neval personage is mere coincidence ... |
Or, maybe Yamamoto was a Venusian. |
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03/22/2009 11:01:51 PM · #29 |
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04/30/2009 06:46:33 PM · #30 |
| In honor of the 10th anniversary of NASA's Earth Observatory project, viewers have voted for the Top Ten Photo-of-the-Day images from their gallery. I think the voters did a pretty good job choosing images with both scientific and aesthetic merit. Check it out ... |
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12/17/2009 03:42:04 PM · #31 |
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05/11/2010 06:27:15 PM · #32 |
Stumbled across this site and thought it was worth sharing.
//astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/ |
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05/11/2010 07:35:31 PM · #33 |
LOL...Im a big astro fan and didn't even realize Venus would/could cast a shadow!
Originally posted by GeneralE:
OK! -- here's a new and rare challenge: photograph Shadows of Venus. |
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11/16/2010 06:56:38 PM · #34 |
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11/16/2010 08:09:55 PM · #35 |
Very cool. Some of the other photos there are equally awesome.
Fun factoid... the most populous organism in the oceans, Pelagibacter, is estimated to have 10^27 individuals. This is about 10,000 times the number of stars in the observable universe. |
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11/16/2010 08:24:57 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Last Friday night Kirbic and I observed with a good sized group under dark skies about 30 miles south of Madison, and there were an unusually high number of bright meteors that night as well. I missed most of them, being glued to my camera and Mars, but I counted the gasps at one point that evening and recorded a record rate! |
What time of night? You have all the fun! |
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11/16/2010 09:07:54 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Very cool. Some of the other photos there are equally awesome.
Fun factoid... the most populous organism in the oceans, Pelagibacter, is estimated to have 10^27 individuals. This is about 10,000 times the number of stars in the observable universe. |
WoW!
Cool site GeneralE. |
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11/18/2010 03:59:11 PM · #38 |
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11/18/2010 07:00:57 PM · #39 |
| Ha, glad someone posted this... saw it earlier today, read Tony Phillips' write-up, and was amazed. Actual (water ice) snowballs (big ones!) surrounding the comet core. Made up of tiny "snowflakes" of ice outgassed with the CO2 jets. Darn good thing the probe passed outside the diameter of this snowstorm! |
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05/10/2011 03:39:20 PM · #40 |
Set your alarm clocks! Starting tomorrow (Wednesday, 5/11), there will be prime viewing of a four-planet conjunction in the southeastern sky just before dawn: Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter will be grouped in an area the size of your hand at arm's-length.
NASA article here  |
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05/31/2011 06:30:50 PM · #41 |
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04/20/2012 02:12:50 PM · #42 |
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04/20/2012 02:16:48 PM · #43 |
Heheh! I saw that this morning. :) |
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04/20/2012 02:34:58 PM · #44 |
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04/20/2012 03:02:47 PM · #45 |
| Gonzo would be so proud of her!!! |
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04/20/2012 03:04:25 PM · #46 |
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04/21/2012 02:43:23 PM · #47 |
| NASA plans to attempt to capture 3-D images of the Lyrid meteor shower tonight (Saturday, 4/21/12). |
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06/01/2012 03:06:03 PM · #48 |
Astronaut Don Pettit plans to photograph the transit of Venus from the ISS -- pictures will be streamed to the web in near-real time.
More on the Transit of Venus June 5th (next chance to see this won't be until 2117!).
There is also a partial Lunar Eclipse coming up early Monday, June 4th -- it should reach maximum around 4am PDT.
During the recent Solar Eclipse, astronauts got a unique picture of the Moon's shadow moving across the Earth: Annular Eclipse over the Pacific Ocean |
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06/01/2012 04:03:39 PM · #49 |
I don't want to curse myself, but the weather is looking good here for Tuesday! I'll need to be shooting West, unlike the last transit, where I was shooting East just after Sunrise. No opportunity for a reprise of this shot:
ETA: For all those who may have missed the 2004 transit, don't miss this one! the next one is in 2117. You read that right, 105 years from now!
Message edited by author 2012-06-01 16:34:26.
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06/01/2012 04:34:16 PM · #50 |
Fooled by a zombie thread!
Might try to check out the venus transit Tuesday, but it is supposed to be cloudy. |
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