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  • even flow - question mark
    even flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    I hear Chris Hatfield's twitter account is pretty cool for you space nerds. :D

    https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Annafalk wrote:
    I'm sorry I wrote my text twice please have patience
    :oops:

    Peace
    No worries! Done that myself ;)
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited May 2013
    :)
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    13 must see star-gazing events of 2013

    http://mainframereview.com/13-must-see- ... +Review%29
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,297
    Jeanwah wrote:
    13 must see star-gazing events of 2013

    http://mainframereview.com/13-must-see- ... +Review%29
    Cool.

    I like the picture of George W. Bush eating a little kitty cat at the end. :mrgreen:
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,297
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    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
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    Even though we're on different sides of the globe we look upon the same stars and the same moon..

    love to you all :)
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    Annafalk wrote:

    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
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Annafalk wrote:
    Even though we're on different sides of the globe we look upon the same stars and the same moon..
    This thought has always brought me comfort, and punctuates that sense of "yeah, we're all here - in this - together".

    We've got the clean, after-rain air this morning in LA. I love it.
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    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.

    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.
    :D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    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.

    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.
    :D

    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.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    rollings wrote:
    Annafalk wrote:

    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


    Thank you rollings this was interesting I didn't know about this!
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    http://now.msn.com/go-stargazing-this-w ... -night-sky

    something about 3 planets lining up together or something
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    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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  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    Full moon falls on June 23, 2013

    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.....
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    mikalina wrote:
    Full moon falls on June 23, 2013

    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.....
    I'm SO looking forward to seeing this this weekend!
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    hedonist wrote:
    mikalina wrote:
    Full moon falls on June 23, 2013

    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.....
    I'm SO looking forward to seeing this this weekend!

    what is a supermoon?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    rollings wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    I'm SO looking forward to seeing this this weekend!

    what is a supermoon?
    It's a big(looking) motherfucker :)
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  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    hedonist wrote:
    mikalina wrote:
    Full moon falls on June 23, 2013

    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.....
    I'm SO looking forward to seeing this this weekend!


    Thats awesome....

    looks like a cloudy and rainy night for me :fp:
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  • otter
    otter Posts: 772
    Ya know there is petroleum on some moon around Jupiter.

    Must have been dinosaurs roaming around millions of years ago. They probably had big heads.
    I found my place......and it's alright

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