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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A red sprite above the white light of an active thunderstorm

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A View of San Francisco’s Leaning Tower From Space

    New satellite data showed the city of Pleasanton, bottom right, rising as well as movement along the Hayward Fault, running north-south on the center right. Green indicates no detected movement. Yellow, orange and red indicate where structures are sinking. Blue represents rising sites. Credit European Space Agency


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    Colored dots represent targets observed by the Sentinel satellite radar. Green dots are stable targets. Red dots, seen on the Millennium Tower at center and Salesforce East behind it, are targets that have sunk. Credit European Space Agency

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The left "lobe" of Pluto's heart-shaped feature is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) ice plain known as Sputnik Planitia.

    But a new study suggests that the ice buildup came first and the accumulated material eventually pushed the underlying landscape down, much as Greenland's enormous ice sheet has done here on Earth.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Because the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and the sun moves around the center of our galaxy, which moves through space itself, you will never be in the same place twice. Ever.


  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Because the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and the sun moves around the center of our galaxy, which moves through space itself, you will never be in the same place twice. Ever.


    Cool thought.
  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    The left "lobe" of Pluto's heart-shaped feature is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) ice plain known as Sputnik Planitia.

    But a new study suggests that the ice buildup came first and the accumulated material eventually pushed the underlying landscape down, much as Greenland's enormous ice sheet has done here on Earth.

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    I object! Speculative.

    (He he he. Just kidding, although I'm not:-). :)
  • zenaxe
    zenaxe Posts: 203 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Because the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and the sun moves around the center of our galaxy, which moves through space itself, you will never be in the same place twice. Ever.


    Nah I'm sitting in the exact same place i sat in yesterday
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    LiftingLady5 wrote: »
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    http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-09/first-space-grown-vegetables-on-the-menu-for-nasa-astronauts/6683530?pfmredir=sm

    I'd like to try space lettuce.

    Do you think it would be like the devil's lettuce?

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Stellar 'Circle of Life' Captured in New NASA Photo

    The life cycle of stars comes full circle in a new photo taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA), which may reveal new clues for studying star evolution.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Maximus wrote: »
    @PlaydohPants wrote: »
    Maximus wrote: »
    does a planet have enough raw materials to build that?

    How much wiring? And drywall?

    No, no, no, you find the planet made of steel then machine it down to a Death Star.

    I may not be smart man but I do know what planets are made of.

    I don't understand, is Maximus banned or not? How did he come back and then get banned again? What's going on?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    As Cassini nears the end of its mission, it continues to beam data back to Earth, including this image of Saturn, its rings and the tiny moon Mimas. The craft's wide-angle camera captured the image of the sunlit rings on July 21, 2016.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Space farming is now officially a thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Gxn_nfgWA
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    edited December 2016
    cee134 wrote: »
    Space farming is now officially a thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Gxn_nfgWA

    Coolness! Thank you. Thats a keeper!
    The Farmers Daughter.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Neil Armstrong's left extravehicular glove with sewn-on cuff checklist itemizing his duties as LMP Commander once on the surface of the moon.

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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    The latest USAF tactical satellite will be launched tonight. Wish I could be there to see it live. That has to be AMAZING.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    To see it in better detail go here:

    https://www.popchartlab.com/products/the-chart-of-cosmic-exploration
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    Anyone else only see @thesunmoonandstars posts when she's quoted?

    Also, I have a question about "seeing" the Milky Way galaxy. Since that's our galaxy, how does one see it? The way I understand it, it would be like seeing earth. Since we're on planet earth, it wouldn't look like a sphere from here, right?
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    The latest USAF tactical satellite will be launched tonight. Wish I could be there to see it live. That has to be AMAZING.

    I agree. I would love to see a live launch of any sort.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    PlaydohPants wrote: »
    @JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Anyone else only see @thesunmoonandstars posts when she's quoted?

    Also, I have a question about "seeing" the Milky Way galaxy. Since that's our galaxy, how does one see it? The way I understand it, it would be like seeing earth. Since we're on planet earth, it wouldn't look like a sphere from here, right?

    It's like taking a picture of your house while you're inside it. You won't see the entire thing like the way you can see the Andromeda galaxy. It's like looking at an inside edge of the milkyway

    An inside edge. Wow. Love this thread! Thank you for responding :). Considering that earth is rotating, do we keep facing the same segment of the rest of the galaxy, or does it vary?

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