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Finding Massive Gas - The International Year of Astronomy

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'd love to do a degree in Astronomy, but the job prospects aren't all that great.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    get in mah butt jedoc

    God, fine. Let me go find my snorkel and polyp tweezers.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    this is so cool

    [hellishly cool image]
    APOD wrote:
    If every picture tells a story, this one might make a novel. The six month long exposure compresses the time from December 17, 2007 to June 21, 2008 into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the remarkable image was recorded with a simple pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper.

    Yes. Yes it is.

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    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    some meteor was visible from northern Germany last night
    here's a video by a Swedish news source

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  • BetelgeuseBetelgeuse Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Usagi and autono-wally, those are fucking awesome.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Damn, you guys. Today's APOD.
    hyperion2_cassini.jpg

    I think Hyperion might be some sort of hive.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    that thing looks like a petrified sponge

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    that thing looks like a petrified sponge

    Exactly my opinion.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Jedoc that pic is awesome

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    it is really cool, just makes me wonder how exactly it formed in the first place

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    aerial bombardment

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    space bees

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    we've found Bel's ancestral home

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    We must meet this threat with our valor, our blood, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!

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    That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Usagi wrote: »
    we've found Bel's celestial home

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    well played

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bravo fari

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited January 2009
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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    tangentially related to astronomy, but still a fun read
    If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
    This is good news for anyone trying to probe the smallest unit of space-time. "Contrary to all expectations, it brings its microscopic quantum structure within reach of current experiments," says Hogan. So while the Planck length is too small for experiments to detect, the holographic "projection" of that graininess could be much, much larger, at around 10-16 metres. "If you lived inside a hologram, you could tell by measuring the blurring," he says.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I posted that in the junk science thread I think. Neato stuff

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    HOLY FUUUUCK SPAAAAAAACE!

    Space is so fucking cool my droogs

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    LOOK AT THIS

    HOLY FUCK

    HOLLYY FUUUUUUCK

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    ISS006-E-26867 (16 February 2003) --- View of surface tension demonstration using water that is being held in place by a metal loop. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, photographed these demonstrations for educational purposes. The experiment took place in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    That is cool.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Be awesome if you could see an astronaut looking back at you from a window

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Weaver wrote: »
    Be awesome if you could see an astronaut's butt looking back at you from a window

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Once we saw the ISS but it was a little blur through a crappy shakey telescope.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Mysst wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Be awesome if you could see an astronaut's butt looking back at you from a window

    THAT'S NO MOON

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh god dammit Usagi.

    <3

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    it was either that or a something about the methane on Mars

    I went for the sure bet

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  • SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Veretas wrote: »
    LOOK AT THIS

    HOLY FUCK

    HOLLYY FUUUUUUCK

    338574222_60466e2e13.jpg
    ISS006-E-26867 (16 February 2003) --- View of surface tension demonstration using water that is being held in place by a metal loop. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, photographed these demonstrations for educational purposes. The experiment took place in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).
    abyssNTI.png

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    edited January 2009
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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    i wonder what i can see through the brolescope

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    Veretas wrote: »
    LOOK AT THIS

    HOLY FUCK

    HOLLYY FUUUUUUCK

    338574222_60466e2e13.jpg
    ISS006-E-26867 (16 February 2003) --- View of surface tension demonstration using water that is being held in place by a metal loop. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, photographed these demonstrations for educational purposes. The experiment took place in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).
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    dru that is underwater. I know it's a bit confusing, but space is up, while the abyss stares back at you.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    view of the presidential box from the LER:
    306023main_Rover_Panoramic.jpg

    we're gonna have some hella cool footage of the moon from this thing

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    When are they scheduled to put that thing on the moon anyway?

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    2020

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