Cancer Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 this one Yeah, click on the "Full-res jpeg" link and you'll get the whole thing. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 10 hours ago, Cygnia said: Northern Pluto. Lots of planets have a north. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 It'd be a strange planet what didn't! tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 the world's first geometric monopole tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 7 hours ago, tkdguy said: Lots of planets have a north. 7 hours ago, L. Marcus said: It'd be a strange planet what didn't! It is a confusing north, though. The Pluto system is "on its side" with respect to most of the Solar System ... its rotation axis is tilted over by a bit more than 90 degrees from the primary axis of the S.S. (Its moons, Charon et al., orbit Pluto in Pluto's equatorial plane, so it's the whole system.) This means that for roughly a quarter of its "year", Pluto's physical north pole points at the Sun, and for a like period of time it points away from the Sun. The direction of that rotation axis is more or less fixed in space (we haven't been able to observe it long enough to know anything about how it might change), but it's nowhere close to where the other planets' rotation axes are. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Uranus has a 92° inclination, does it not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 It's basically doing back strokes out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 And Venus rotates backwards, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Yeah, Venus rotates very slowly (its orbital period is shorter than its rotation period) retrograde, but aside from the "slow" and "backwards" its rotation axis is pretty much in line with most planets'. The Uranus system, like Pluto, is "on its side". We basically had to wait until the 1980s (around the time the Voyager spacecraft passed by the system) to get a good handle on Uranus's rotation period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Uranus has a 92° inclination, does it not? Only when I bend over and try to touch my toes. #tightHamstrings #noFlexibility. tkdguy and aylwin13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 That's a folly is it not ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 10/18/2018 at 11:43 PM, Cygnia said: Well, the one on the right... Reveal hidden contents ...was Robin Williams A Ha ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Lawnmower Boy and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Tentacles of a Great Old One. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Lawnmower Boy, slikmar and tkdguy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 5 hours ago, Cygnia said: When the Ents decide to tear down a tower, they don't mess around. Pretty sure Saruman's tower was a lot higher then that before the forest showed up. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 24, 2018 Report Share Posted October 24, 2018 FYI, this was the source for my previous comment: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Christopher Posted October 24, 2018 Report Share Posted October 24, 2018 47 minutes ago, Cygnia said: I think the guy on the Left is a young Bill Cosby? Otherwise i can not identify any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 24, 2018 Report Share Posted October 24, 2018 Duke Ellington in the middle there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 Reminds me of this, series of images of the light echoes made by V838 Mon, strung into a video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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