News:

This year - 2026 - is the Unknown Zone's 25th anniversary!

Come join in the festivities!

Main Menu

Skywatch

Started by Palehorse, January 03, 2012, 12:51:07 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages 1 ... 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 ... 73
User actions

Locutus

#705
September 13, 2013, 11:47:50 PM
Current as of September 2012:

One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

libby

#706
September 14, 2013, 12:08:50 AM
Is there text with that? I think I understand what I'm looking at but would like your input. 
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Locutus

#707
September 14, 2013, 12:14:10 AM
Quote from: libby on September 14, 2013, 12:08:50 AM
Is there text with that? I think I understand what I'm looking at but would like your input. 

Yes there is.

http://www.space.com/17693-voyager-2.html

It doesn't say much about that image, but from what I've read, the reason that the image is shaped in that manner (kind of like a condom for lack of a better word) is that the sun (and the rest of us) are moving through the Milky Way in the direction of right to left in that image.  Thus the heliosphere is being compressed on that end, and the tail we're leaving behind is to the right. 

Since Pioneer 10 is exiting in that direction, and since leaving the heliopause is the current definition of 'leaving the solar system,' then that's why Voyager beat out Pioneer 10 in escaping the solar system according to that definition.

I've just done a bit of basic checking on that tonight, but that's what I've come up with so far.
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

libby

#708
September 14, 2013, 12:29:00 AM
Thank you, Locutus, for the article and your explanation of the image.  :yes:
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Locutus

#709
September 14, 2013, 12:31:03 AM
That's far from an expert explanation.  It's just a summary of what I think I've read this evening.  Another reason for Voyager being the first is that it's traveling faster than Pioneer due to gravity boosts from planets along its journey.
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

libby

#710
October 05, 2013, 11:41:59 PM
Earlier tonight I was looking for something to take my mind off of what has been going on here  :rolleyes:  and was scrolling through horror, crime, sex, stupidity, when, lucky for me, got to the Science channel just as a 2-hour program, The Planets, came on. It was great -- stunning photography and the history of the space programs at NASA, leading up to Voyager. Just what Locutus and I were discussing above.

All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Locutus

#711
October 05, 2013, 11:58:34 PM
Do you know if they're going to show it again?
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

libby

#712
October 06, 2013, 12:48:45 PM
Quote from: Locutus on October 05, 2013, 11:58:34 PM
Do you know if they're going to show it again?
No, but will watch for it and let  you know. It was so good I want to watch it again. Instead of one narrator, they had people actually involved in it over the years.
:yes:
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Locutus

#713
October 13, 2013, 11:30:25 PM
Might be time to set the clock to get up early enough to take the telescope out for ISON.  We're getting close now.  :yes:
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

libby

#714
October 14, 2013, 10:23:20 AM
Quote from: Locutus on October 13, 2013, 11:30:25 PM
Might be time to set the clock to get up early enough to take the telescope out for ISON.  We're getting close now.  :yes:
Thanks for the reminder. :)
All of life is a process of testing and initiation, always preparing for a higher level of consciousness -- and illumination. -- John Horn

Henry Hawk

#715
October 14, 2013, 02:24:37 PM
Quote from: Locutus on October 13, 2013, 11:30:25 PM
Might be time to set the clock to get up early enough to take the telescope out for ISON.  We're getting close now.  :yes:

I found this as I was googling more information about ISON.  Check it out, pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TULT9QUevnQ
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - It all makes sense to me now...


"The future ain't what it used to be."– Yogi Berra

"Square roots are rarely found on any plant." FTW

Bo D

#716
October 17, 2013, 12:36:31 PM
You REALLY ought to watch the sky!  :spooked:

A meteor that blazed across southern Urals in February 2013 was the largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century. More than 1,600 people were injured by the shock wave from the explosion, estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs, as it landed near the city of Chelyabinsk.

Scientists on October 16, 2013, recovered what could be the largest part of this meteor from Chebarkul Lake outside the city. They weighed it using a giant steelyard balance, which displayed 570 kilograms (1,256 pounds) before it broke.
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2013/10/giant-chunk-russian-meteor-raised-lake?et_cid=3542428&et_rid=41373174&location=top
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

Locutus

#717
October 17, 2013, 12:54:15 PM
:spooked: :spooked:

And nobody saw it coming. 
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Bo D

#718
October 17, 2013, 01:01:09 PM
Quote from: Locutus on October 17, 2013, 12:54:15 PM
:spooked: :spooked:

And nobody saw it coming.

That the really scary part. What if that thing had hit Central Park? Or the Mall in DC?

Wait ... maybe that second choice is not so scary.  :icon_twisted:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  Carl Sagan

Locutus

#719
October 17, 2013, 01:02:50 PM
:big grin:
One of the gravest dangers to the survival of our republic is an ignorant electorate routinely feeding at the trough of propaganda.   -- Locutus

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."  -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Print
Go Up Pages 1 ... 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 ... 73
User actions