decent looking Horizon on space junk starts shortly ...
― xelab, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/dscovrepicmoontransitfull.gif?itok=m-pCEXqi
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso1532a.jpg
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1532/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 August 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I recognize that these images are generally hyper-colorized for legitimate scientific reasons, to accentuate structures that would not be nearly as visible without it, but they always leave me with a certain sense of artificiality, like fashion model photos with all the skin blemishes photoshopped away.
― Aimless, Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
I just noticed that you can see the reflection of the moon in the ocean.
― nickn, Thursday, 6 August 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
that's the reflection of the sun
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 August 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
sunned in a celestial beef, dang
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 7 August 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
:(
― nickn, Friday, 7 August 2015 06:54 (eight years ago) link
aw! icarus, o icarus.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Icky for short
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
caek you have probably seen this but for those that have this thread bookmarked check out this gif of flyby of pluto from a video nasa posted:
https://33.media.tumblr.com/9478051d20de16848348a5dc65caccda/tumblr_nu170k9x4R1rdy7odo1_500.gif
― 1995 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 3 September 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
fn hell that's cool
― andrew m., Thursday, 3 September 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
Why does the sock monkey look away from us?
― pplains, Thursday, 3 September 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link
i have not seen that! nuts!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_graphics_manual_nhb_1430-2_jan_1976.pdf
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
👍
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150915155309.htm
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/nh-apluto-mountains-plains-9-17-15.png?itok=30xh2XGF
yeah, these are phenomenal.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kRh_098f--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1434747542103831844.png
In this small section of the larger crescent image of Pluto, taken by NASA's New Horizons just 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015, the setting sun illuminates a fog or near-surface haze, which is cut by the parallel shadows of many local hills and small mountains. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers), and the width of the image is 115 miles (185 kilometers).
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
hi pluto
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
I thought about photoshopping the Alien derelict in there but I'm a stickler for realism and at that scale it would be about 1 pixel across.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestandardsmanual/reissue-of-the-1975-nasa-graphics-standards-manual
there's a kickstarter lol
― 龜, Sunday, 27 September 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
http://notes.husk.org/post/130639610239/low-sun-apollo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegePeople please go look at the dodgy CGI graphics. If your mind tells you that that is the way a lunar module looks when taking off (like a B grade hollywood production) then you my friend have been indoctronated to a point where fantasy trying to imitate reality has actually become reality. All fake. There is no photo of earth. On apollo 17 they supposedly took a whole bunch. Of a perfectly round earth...but wait. We are on an oblate shperoid? And more recently we have found out we are on a pear shaped oblate spheriod? According to todays most foremost bullshit artist on the universe. Neil Degrasse Tyson. Makes you wonder about the automatic earth shape corrective lenses they must have had on their cameras. And why? There is no real picture of earth. If you guys find one send it. Im betting it will be some image from the Galileo satelite, or from the apollo missions or from the space station. If those are the ones anyone is going to put forth then so be it. I will show you why every singlo one of them is fake.We didnt go to the moon. And Nasa lost all the original documentation and data of the supposed greatest achievement in mankinds history when american courts ordered NASA to hand over their data.Sound plausible?If so i can do nothing for you people. You want to believe something, then fine. We are all allowed to have our dreams. But then dont taut your views as if you have proof of them. Let those moon missions expand your imagination of what it could be like. Because we havent gone there. Just out of interest.
Oh and another bombshell. It is flat. Que the science i know all too well and Ill explain it away for you:
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegeYeah sure. And then they lost all the data and recordings. Come now man. Let's put our thinking caps on. They lost 800 boxes worth of data on man's most important achievement? After Nasa fought a freedom of information request by the public to have the data kept hidden. Then they get ordered by the US supreme Court to hand over the documents as the public have the right to the project they funded. Then NASA said they lost the footage! Really? Come now people. You don't have to be a tinfoil wearing idiot to see a lie.Like · Reply · Oct 3, 2015 6:42am
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegeAnd Seumas. You don't know me. You don't know the capability of my mind. I investigated the moon landings and all space travel at length. It's filled with holes. Your education is programming friend. Please tell me you don't believe propoganda is just a word used in reference to the past because then you're just naive. Enjoy paying billions to nasa for fake pictures and rotating earth footage that shows no change in cloud formations over a 24 hour spin around its own axis. Yeah you keep your education mate. Didnt teach you much about logic and thinking for yourself. They just taught you which answers to give in tests if you want to move on to the next one.Like · Reply · Oct 3, 2015 6:47am
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegeAnd just a simple point that I shouldn't have to make. Talking to someone who tells you what they have done without being under oath doesn't count as proof. Also. Why is the earth's size in their videos wrong? Why is it virtually the same size from the supposed moon they landed on as the moon is from earth? How did they get past the van Allen belts without even having discovered them at the time of the lunar landings? The astronauts wore no protective gear against a threat they didn't know about. The severity of the radiation they would have experienced would have started affecting them during their trip if they were even lucky enough to survive it. So seems Jim lied to your face man.Like · Reply · Oct 3, 2015 6:52am
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for caek's response to these allegations
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
i like the "why didn't russia say it was a hoax, since they clearly could have picked up the radio signals coming back?" argument
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/
extraordinary claims require not running your mouth off like a damn fool
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
lol yeah saw that, looks bananas
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/GMTelescope/videos/vb.1429820553926626/1641664616075551/?type=2&theater
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 October 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
that's awesome
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 17 October 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
detention for WPost headline writer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/14/uranus-might-be-full-of-surprises/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
strong headline
can't believe there are people say "your a nuss" :-(
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 November 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2015/20151211_NAC_2015-12-10T01_31_06_651Z_ID10_1397549000_F22_levels.jpg
me after a few pints
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/small-bodies/comet-cg-20151211-osiris.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYnNDODWYAAbFCU.png
A very deep Chandra view of metals, sloshing and feedback in the Centaurus cluster of galaxieshttp://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01489
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
http://gawker.com/german-food-is-driving-refugees-back-to-the-war-zones-t-1762193158
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
refugees otm
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EHTN00d.gif
― 龜, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
boy ain't that some timing.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
"deorbit" https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/deorbit
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
So would "its five-year mission" be an appropriate phrase?
― takin' care of beersness (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
yes but it now has another mission: 37 orbits of jupiter, ~2 weeks each, so still a couple of years until it gets deorbited into jupiter (to avoid contaminating any of the moons)
the orbits are v elliptical because jupiter has a crazy radiation field that would fry the electronics
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Juno_trajectory_through_radiation_belts.png?1467818421847
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
sounds like they're hiding something there
― mh, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
thought jupiter was trump there for a sec
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
will the heat affect yr viewing of the meteor shower?
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
no but the clouds and the demon drink will
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
hey caek did u recently recommend a series of books of historical maps?
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
yes these ones
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Colin+McEvedy&search-alias=books&field-author=Colin+McEvedy&sort=relevancerank
i've read medieval, ancient, and modern. currently reading american history to 1870 which is great (although i suspect some of the pre-columbian speculation is a little outdated). recent is next.
they are extremely accessible, quick reads. i'm not an expert but they seem like tour de force concise syntheses of huge subjects too.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
also engaging wit throughout and occasionally laugh out loud e.g.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkRdU01WYAAQ_eX.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link