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  • The Astronomy Thread
     OP - December 23, 2010, 10:06 PM
    Discuss astronomy here.

    Let's talk about Uranus.
    fuck you
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #1 - December 23, 2010, 10:10 PM
    Can you verify if the Klingons have been wiped out on Uranus and flushed out of the solar system ?

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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #2 - December 23, 2010, 10:38 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Az0L_HiGvA

    Since we're joking about Uranus, here's a nice video about Uranus.

    If anyone has any astronomical questions, they can ask here. I will try my best to answer them.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #3 - December 23, 2010, 10:44 PM
    Amyl Nitrate can have bad side effects.
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #4 - December 25, 2010, 06:36 PM
    So can random gay sex.  Smiley
    fuck you
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #5 - December 25, 2010, 06:43 PM
    Yup.. Best way is to have a bf (or offcourse a group marriage.. Smiley )
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #6 - December 25, 2010, 06:45 PM
    You look Filipino in your current avatar.
    fuck you
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #7 - December 25, 2010, 06:46 PM
    This is the first time, otherwise I usually get to look Chineese.
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #8 - December 25, 2010, 06:48 PM
    Star light, star bright
    First star I see tonight
    I wish I may, I wish I might.
    Fuck!... It's just a satellite
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #9 - December 25, 2010, 06:53 PM
    lol.. Good one..
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #10 - December 25, 2010, 08:15 PM
    Has anyone gone out and seen Venus yet? It's so bright! You can even see it during day  dance
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #11 - December 25, 2010, 08:19 PM
    I've seen Venus many times. very cool - esp with a crescent moon  Afro

    (often mistaken for simply a bright star)
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #12 - December 25, 2010, 08:43 PM
    Quote from: Hassan on December 25, 2010, 08:19 PM
    I've seen Venus many times. very cool - esp with a crescent moon  Afro

    (often mistaken for simply a bright star)


    It's often mistaken to be a UFO, too. There's this one story about a policeman who chased a bright light in the sky for four hours, he found out later that he was seeing Venus in the sky and his car was going around in circles.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #13 - December 25, 2010, 10:38 PM
    ^ I recall hearing that.

    What is the forecast for Scorpio tomorrow? 

    I really need to know if tomorrow is indeed my day.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #14 - December 26, 2010, 04:20 AM
    Quote from: J. on December 25, 2010, 08:43 PM
    It's often mistaken to be a UFO, too. There's this one story about a policeman who chased a bright light in the sky for four hours, he found out later that he was seeing Venus in the sky and his car was going around in circles.


    I do not understand that- even if it where some kind of flying light source, why would you chase it ? What what he going to do if he "caught up" with it ?
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #15 - December 26, 2010, 05:20 AM
    Quote from: Q-Man on December 23, 2010, 10:06 PM
    Discuss astronomy here.

    Let's talk about Uranus.


    Ok, let's talk about Uranus.
    ...
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #16 - December 26, 2010, 07:24 AM
    Some of the hardware used for space exploration is really fascinating. Some hardware (like voyager) is still working 30+ years after being launched. The Russian Venera lander on Venus is amazing in another sense- that it even survived for any length of time on the surface of Venus.

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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #17 - December 26, 2010, 02:53 PM
    Quote from: Juan Karl on December 26, 2010, 04:20 AM
    I do not understand that- even if it where some kind of flying light source, why would you chase it ? What what he going to do if he "caught up" with it ?



    To see where the aliens will land. To find out who's going to get the anal probe.
    Quote from: Juan Karl on December 26, 2010, 07:24 AM
    Some of the hardware used for space exploration is really fascinating. Some hardware (like voyager) is still working 30+ years after being launched. The Russian Venera lander on Venus is amazing in another sense- that it even survived for any length of time on the surface of Venus.



    Speaking of Voyager, it no longer has the solar wind on its back. It's one step closer to entering the interstellar medium. It was launched before personal computers were everywhere, before cell phones, before the internet. It's a remarkable achievement for humans. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20101213.html

    We're doing awesome stuff...http://tinyurl.com/3ayo8fq
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #18 - December 26, 2010, 03:13 PM
    Quote from: J. on December 26, 2010, 02:53 PM
    To see where the aliens will land. To find out who's going to get the anal probe.
    Speaking of Voyager, it no longer has the solar wind on its back. It's one step closer to entering the interstellar medium. It was launched before personal computers were everywhere, before cell phones, before the internet. It's a remarkable achievement for humans. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20101213.html

    We're doing awesome stuff...http://tinyurl.com/3ayo8fq


    Considering the probes, I would be inclined to drive AWAY from the thing !

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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #19 - December 26, 2010, 03:13 PM
    The earlier probes, like in the 60's , are also impressive !
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #20 - January 11, 2011, 02:46 PM
    http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/rocky_planet.html

    Another great discovery by the Kepler mission, a telescope looking at stars to find earth-like planets. Even though this planet is not very earth-like, the temperature is like 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than lava flows here on Earth. However, it is the smallest rocky body Kepler has found yet. It takes Kepler-10b just a day to complete 1 orbit its parent star! It's much more like the hypothesised planet Vulcan in our own Solar System.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjwcXd4Toms&feature=player_embedded

    This brings the total number of exoplanets to 518. Kepler has found more than 700 exoplanets, but the results were held last year to confirm many of the discovered bodies. That set of data will be released later this year.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #21 - January 11, 2011, 03:04 PM
    this is awesome Cheesy.... I just hope we live long enough to see even more spectacular discoveries....
    Quote from: FreeSoul007 on January 14, 2011, 12:00 AM
    Just look at the sun and the moon, rotating around the earth perfectly! Out of all the never ending space in the universe, the sun and moon ended up close to earth rotating around it perfectly.!!

  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #22 - January 21, 2011, 08:49 AM
    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20110120b/#9

    Cassni has released top 10 pictures taken in 2010. Take a look, which one is your favourite and why?



    My favourite is the picture of lake Ontario Lacus, it's one of the many hydrocarbon lakes present on Titan, and it's the largest one in the southern hemisphere of Titan. It is almost as big as Lake Ontario in size. Unlike lakes on Earth, it's mainly composed of methane, ethane and propane. Titan is only place which has liquid lakes in the Solar System, other than Earth. The largest lake on Titan is Kraken Mare, it's almost as big as the Caspian Sea.

    Oh and it looks like god's been to Titan.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #23 - January 21, 2011, 08:56 AM
    This one is the coolest IMO. Smiley

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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #24 - January 21, 2011, 09:11 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on January 21, 2011, 08:56 AM
    This one is the coolest IMO. Smiley

    (Clicky for piccy!)


    It's quite amazing. Saturn is so majestic. The shadow of the rings is splitting Saturn in half. The best picture taken of Saturn during the autumn equinox is this:



    Click the picture to see in full resolution, it's worth it!

    That picture is one of the most detailed picture of Saturn taken ever. It's taken by none other than the Cassini space probe. You can even see the inner moons of Saturn. To the right you can see the shepherd moons, the inner moon is Prometheus and the outer moon is Pandora. To the middle and left of the screen there's Epimetheus and Janus.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #25 - January 21, 2011, 09:47 AM
    Quote from: J. on January 21, 2011, 08:49 AM
    Oh and it looks like god's been to Titan.

    Nope.

    It looks like a giant bigfoot has been to Titan.

    Oh wait. Maybe they are the same thing.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #26 - January 21, 2011, 09:55 AM
    Are the moons little white dots?
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #27 - January 21, 2011, 10:08 AM
    Quote from: muddy on January 21, 2011, 09:55 AM
    Are the moons little white dots?


    Yes, they're dwarfed by Saturn in size. The largest one in that picture is Janus, it's that dot on the right, it's almost 190 kilometres across. Saturn is almost 380,000 [Oops, in a hurry I posted the circumference and not the diameter.] 120,000 kilometres across.



    Here's Saturn compared to size with Earth. Saturn is the second largest planet in the Solar System.
  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #28 - January 21, 2011, 10:14 AM
    Looks like people near both poles of Saturn can't see the moons. I wonder how do they celebrate ramadan and eid?
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  • Re: The Astronomy Thread
     Reply #29 - January 21, 2011, 10:16 AM
    They wouldn't be able to see anything at all. The atmosphere is too dense for light to get through. Wink
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