Thank you, Cassini for reminding me of the beauty of the universe even though things feel crappy on planet earth this past weekend.
wow. I didn't even think this was an actual photograph. What makes it look that way is that Cassini spacecraft is facing Saturn looking back at the sun. So in this picture the sun is behind Saturn and Cassini is in Saturn's shadow. How cool is that! Thanks for posting this
Mark your calendars, Kiddies.
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A total Eclipse of the Sun will be seen through a large swath of the U.S. on 21August2017. From Oregon through much of the MidWest and through North Carolina. Hitting near many large populations centers, such as Salem, Or., St. Louis and Kansas City and Charleston.
Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
Hail, Hail!!!
It's so fascinating talking about space and how there are
millions of planets with the same chances of life as earth out there
I love to just stand in silence and look up at the stars..
The evolution for mans best friend unfortunately I think we humans are
behind it to fit our purposes.
Peace
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It's so fascinating talking about space and how there are
millions of planets with the same chances of life as earth out there
I love to just stand in silence and look up at the stars..
The evolution for mans best friend unfortunately I think we humans are
behind to fit our purposes.
Peace
Twice you've mentioned man's best friend. Just curious who/what you think that is?
My first reaction was the usual - dogs. Then I thought...well, what about man?
It's so fascinating talking about space and how there are
millions of planets with the same chances of life as earth out there
I love to just stand in silence and look up at the stars..
The evolution for mans best friend unfortunately I think we humans are
behind to fit our purposes.
Peace
Twice you've mentioned man's best friend. Just curious who/what you think that is?
My first reaction was the usual - dogs. Then I thought...well, what about man?
btw...the Jupiter photo is spectacular.
I'm curious as well about "mans best friend". BUt even more so, Annafalk, what do you mean here? This sentences: "The evolution for mans best friend unfortunately I think we humans are
behind to fit our purposes" makes no sense to me. And is it "mans" or "man's"?
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Even though we're on different sides of the globe we look upon the same stars and the same moon..
love to you all
that's true for the moon, the sun, and the visible planets.....but not necessarily the stars.
some stars are visible in one hemisphere but not the other. It depends on your lattitude too. If you live near the equator, you'll see the norhtern and southern constellations. If you live on the north pole, you'll only ever see the northern constellations.
If you've thought that "it seems like time is speeding up" or rather, "things seemed to move slower when i was a kid" ("days go by faster now than they used to) or something of that sort ...
BLAM-O ... you are *PROBABLY* correct, and extremely intuitive.
This is the alternative theory to "the universe is expanding at an ACCELERATING rate".
While the theory of a universe expanding at an accelerating rate requires an unsubstantiated belief in "dark matter", the newly proposed theory requires no such wild assertions -- it just requires a new way of looking at things.
The strange "paradox" here is that time itself slowing down (winding to zero) actually would give the daily appearance (although it is claimed this is happening far too slowly to be noticed by humans) of the pace of things actually increasing (speeding up).
I've been mulling this concept over for some time, and find it quite gratifying to note that *actual* scientists are now arriving at this possibility as well.
yay science.
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If you've thought that "it seems like time is speeding up" or rather, "things seemed to move slower when i was a kid" ("days go by faster now than they used to) or something of that sort ...
BLAM-O ... you are *PROBABLY* correct, and extremely intuitive.
This is the alternative theory to "the universe is expanding at an ACCELERATING rate".
While the theory of a universe expanding at an accelerating rate requires an unsubstantiated belief in "dark matter", the newly proposed theory requires no such wild assertions -- it just requires a new way of looking at things.
The strange "paradox" here is that time itself slowing down (winding to zero) actually would give the daily appearance (although it is claimed this is happening far too slowly to be noticed by humans) of the pace of things actually increasing (speeding up).
I've been mulling this concept over for some time, and find it quite gratifying to note that *actual* scientists are now arriving at this possibility as well.
yay science.
This will rumble around in my mind well into the evening having also thought about this a number of times as well as occasionally feeling the arc of changing time and the changing pace of movement in time.
New information to absorb here!
Very cool- thanks Drifting.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Even though we're on different sides of the globe we look upon the same stars and the same moon..
love to you all
that's true for the moon, the sun, and the visible planets.....but not necessarily the stars.
some stars are visible in one hemisphere but not the other. It depends on your lattitude too. If you live near the equator, you'll see the norhtern and southern constellations. If you live on the north pole, you'll only ever see the northern constellations.
June’s full moon is known as the Strawberry Moon. This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe...
However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon.
Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
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wow. I didn't even think this was an actual photograph. What makes it look that way is that Cassini spacecraft is facing Saturn looking back at the sun. So in this picture the sun is behind Saturn and Cassini is in Saturn's shadow. How cool is that! Thanks for posting this
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A total Eclipse of the Sun will be seen through a large swath of the U.S. on 21August2017. From Oregon through much of the MidWest and through North Carolina. Hitting near many large populations centers, such as Salem, Or., St. Louis and Kansas City and Charleston.
Hail, Hail!!!
http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-io-europa-voyager-image-2013-1
The crazy thing is that I'm just a little bit older then the photo.
Peace
Borrowed this shot (taken on the ISS of the Earth and Moon) from Phil Plait's blog. He always has great stuff. Check it out: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html
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millions of planets with the same chances of life as earth out there
I love to just stand in silence and look up at the stars..
The evolution for mans best friend unfortunately I think we humans are
behind it to fit our purposes.
Peace
My first reaction was the usual - dogs. Then I thought...well, what about man?
btw...the Jupiter photo is spectacular.
:oops:
Peace
I'm curious as well about "mans best friend". BUt even more so, Annafalk, what do you mean here? This sentences: "The evolution for mans best friend unfortunately I think we humans are
behind to fit our purposes" makes no sense to me. And is it "mans" or "man's"?
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I like the picture of George W. Bush eating a little kitty cat at the end.
Even though we're on different sides of the globe we look upon the same stars and the same moon..
love to you all
that's true for the moon, the sun, and the visible planets.....but not necessarily the stars.
some stars are visible in one hemisphere but not the other. It depends on your lattitude too. If you live near the equator, you'll see the norhtern and southern constellations. If you live on the north pole, you'll only ever see the northern constellations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumpola ... olar_stars
We've got the clean, after-rain air this morning in LA. I love it.
BLAM-O ... you are *PROBABLY* correct, and extremely intuitive.
Scientists Think Time Is Slowing Down & Will Stop Completely Some Day ...
This is the alternative theory to "the universe is expanding at an ACCELERATING rate".
While the theory of a universe expanding at an accelerating rate requires an unsubstantiated belief in "dark matter", the newly proposed theory requires no such wild assertions -- it just requires a new way of looking at things.
The strange "paradox" here is that time itself slowing down (winding to zero) actually would give the daily appearance (although it is claimed this is happening far too slowly to be noticed by humans) of the pace of things actually increasing (speeding up).
I've been mulling this concept over for some time, and find it quite gratifying to note that *actual* scientists are now arriving at this possibility as well.
yay science.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
This will rumble around in my mind well into the evening having also thought about this a number of times as well as occasionally feeling the arc of changing time and the changing pace of movement in time.
New information to absorb here!
Very cool- thanks Drifting.
Thank you rollings this was interesting I didn't know about this!
something about 3 planets lining up together or something
However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon.
Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
This full moon is not only the closest and largest full moon of the year. It also presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2013.
The moon will not be so close again until August, 2014. In other words, it’s not just a supermoon. It’s the closest supermoon of 2013.....
what is a supermoon?
Thats awesome....
looks like a cloudy and rainy night for me :fp:
Must have been dinosaurs roaming around millions of years ago. They probably had big heads.