Cygnia Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 I follow an astronomer on Twitter who posts some great images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 I wonder if I am acquainted with him by lower-tech means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Gentleman's name is Antonio Paris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Nope, but I'll look him up tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 tkdguy, Cancer, Lucius and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 NASA has been using the Canadian North to develop training regimens for future astronauts to Mars. Portions of the landscapes are very similarly bleak. Decades ago I used to live and work in Sudbury, the heart of the mining region in northern Ontario. NASA sent their Apollo astronauts into the old strip mines there in the Sixties, to prepare them to walk on the Moon. It was the closest match to the lunar surface they could find on Earth. Some of us Canadians take a strangely perverse pride in that. Christopher and Tom Cowan 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for -- is that a Tim Horton's?!" Lucius, Rails, Lord Liaden and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 So anything special about these mimes ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, death tribble said: So anything special about these mimes ? I think they are filming with one of those old-timey cameras that had a handcrank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 (wrong thread) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Well, the one on the right... ...was Robin Williams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 And the left one is Todd Oppenheimer -- journalist, editor, actor, etc. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Slag from nickel smelters poured off at night (vicinity of Sudbury, Ontario). Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 On October 20, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Cygnia said: There appears to be a caterpillar in your creamed corn..... Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 An extreme close-up of the surface of our dear Sun! Lord Liaden, Cygnia and Christopher 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Yeah, each of the little blobs there is roughly Earth-sized. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 And the blob is a single convection cell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Fun fact: those black spots aren't actually black. They're 3000 to 4500 K and a typical sunspot by itself would be brighter than the moon. They only look dark in comparison to the rest of the Sun. They are caused by magnetic flux tubes getting twisted up by the Sun's differential rotation and inhibiting convection in the convection layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 That's an outer planet's moon (or possibly Pluto), something with an icy surface. Don't know which one at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Northern Pluto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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