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Wheels wrote:I can't even begin to get my head around those figures.
Best not to try, I just go 'wow' these days.
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
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Active sunspot region has produced a series of X-class (i.e. fookin BIG) flares in the past few days, luckily none in our direction. But the Sun is rotating the region towards us, so there's a good chance one may blow off with Earth's number on it. Tin hats on, please.
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I have only been wrong once and thats because I thought I was wrong but I was wrong I was right!
Petty authoritarians aren’t man enough to challenge the actions of a person face to face; instead they incite a forum of rumour, innuendo and half truths, and impose rude sanctions to discourage those who dare question fairness.
B0NES wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet !
Do you think a Faraday Cage might help?
I have only been wrong once and thats because I thought I was wrong but I was wrong I was right!
Petty authoritarians aren’t man enough to challenge the actions of a person face to face; instead they incite a forum of rumour, innuendo and half truths, and impose rude sanctions to discourage those who dare question fairness.
Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
B0NES wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet !
Not at all, the whole astro community were anticipating it (for example,JPL article 2 weeks earlier) and every available telescope and instrument that could, watched it and studied it.
The fact is, unless it's going to be a close thing, nobody outside the astronomy community is even slightly interested. And at 15 times further away than the moon, nobody else would have given, or did give,a shhit!
If you really do want to have guaranteed advance warning (well, of those objects which are known to be coming by!) then all you have to do is follow @AsteroidWatch
B0NES wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22736709 Kept that one quiet !
Not at all, the whole astro community were anticipating it (for example,JPL article 2 weeks earlier) and every available telescope and instrument that could, watched it and studied it.
The fact is, unless it's going to be a close thing, nobody outside the astronomy community is even slightly interested. And at 15 times further away than the moon, nobody else would have given, or did give,a shhit!
If you really do want to have guaranteed advance warning (well, of those objects which are known to be coming by!) then all you have to do is follow @AsteroidWatch
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Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
Just thought some of you might be entertained by a short video illustrating comparative sizes of stars, up to the biggest known. Just a couple of minutes, but I think fascinating as well as mind boggling.
You can find it on a popular video sharing site by searching for Star Size Comparison HD AudioV2
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Been really enjoying looking up at the ISS the last few nights. Sometimes followed by the ATV4. I'm 25 but as soon as I get the update on twitter that it is about to appear I'm 4 years old again!
Joined: Feb 17 2002 Posts: 28357 Location: MACS0647-JD
Robbo wrote:Been really enjoying looking up at the ISS the last few nights. Sometimes followed by the ATV4. I'm 25 but as soon as I get the update on twitter that it is about to appear I'm 4 years old again!
Aye, it's great to watch, tonight (but prolly cloudy ( ) the ATV is about 10 mins ahead of the ISS at roughly 23:19, in the South/ SW, rising from the west but fairly low down in the sky
As ever, people can create themselves a login on the free http://www.heavens-above.com/ website and then get full details, individualized predictions and sky charts, at a click.
Robbo wrote:Been really enjoying looking up at the ISS the last few nights. Sometimes followed by the ATV4. I'm 25 but as soon as I get the update on twitter that it is about to appear I'm 4 years old again!
Aye, it's great to watch, tonight (but prolly cloudy ( ) the ATV is about 10 mins ahead of the ISS at roughly 23:19, in the South/ SW, rising from the west but fairly low down in the sky
As ever, people can create themselves a login on the free http://www.heavens-above.com/ website and then get full details, individualized predictions and sky charts, at a click.
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( ) the ATV is about 10 mins ahead of the ISS at roughly 23:19, in the South/ SW, rising from the west but fairly low down in the sky
