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« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2005, 02:46 PM »

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No matter what you believe, the accompanying text, from a commencement speech by Carl Sagan (a slightly modified version of a passage from the book Pale Blue Dot), will instill a great sense of humility. The ray of sunlight seen is caused by the reflections off the actual Voyager.

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.


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« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2005, 06:51 PM »

Sorry, iDuck, those are really fucking cool but...

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Several of the images in the hoax email contain museum accession numbers which Practical Fishkeeping has checked. These show that the fish pictured were actually collected during a joint New Zealand and Australia Norfolk Ridge - Lord Howe Rise Biodiversity Voyage (NORFANZ) undertaken between May and June 2003, and weren't collected in Phuket as stated in the email.

According to NORFANZ, the fish pictured were captured during a series of over 150 deep water trawls in depths of up to 2000m.

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The study found a number of new species, including a comical looking Psychrolutes species, affectionately named "Mr Blobby".

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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2005, 06:54 PM »

If not, you can view them on the NORFANZ voyage webpage

The view of Downtown San Diego from my school is awesome. If I had a better picture, I would post it, but I don't so here is one I took on friday.
maybe you have to be there


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« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2005, 06:58 PM »

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Sorry, iDuck, those are really fucking cool but...

Ahh no problem, I stand corrected.

Either way however they demonstrate the variety of sea life...


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« Reply #25 on: February 01, 2005, 01:43 AM »

No idea where this came from, but its just fucking cool:

http://puca1960.tripod.com/a4df3760.jpg

Overhead of battleship cannon firing, shock waves on water.


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« Reply #26 on: February 01, 2005, 09:12 AM »

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Siv's Earth photo rocked my world...

Same here - I thought that photo was amazing - and it felt very strange... strange also, that humanity has managed to send something that far away from us, and it still works.

In keeping with the space photos, this photo was taken either from an observatory on earth, or from hubble. It is of a huge volcanic eruption on Io, one of Jupiters moons.

Also, iDuck, I loved those photos, especially the lizard fish. Mean looking bugger.


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« Reply #27 on: February 01, 2005, 01:12 PM »

I just love this Calar Alto Image of Fragment Q Impacts (impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter).

That's Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system. The explosions might be bigger than earth.


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« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2005, 08:40 PM »

A photo of two jets, taken as they break the sound barrier.

I'm sure that the camera didn't take just that one single picture at the exact right moment, but that's still pretty damned impressive.


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« Reply #29 on: February 01, 2005, 09:07 PM »

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I'm sure that the camera didn't take just that one single picture at the exact right moment, but that's still pretty damned impressive.

Not to burst your bubble but it's not necessarily "the moment they break the sound barrier." That cloud travels with the jet travelling supersonic due to the massive pressure and temperature jump across the shock wave generated by the flight. You can tell that the first plane is travelling faster than sound already because the angle of the shock cone (as indicated by said cloud) isn't 90� to the flight path. Anything less than 90� indacates greater than Mach=1


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« Reply #30 on: February 01, 2005, 09:19 PM »

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I'm sure that the camera didn't take just that one single picture at the exact right moment, but that's still pretty damned impressive.

Damn it, I knew that, and I was thinking about it as I posted, yet I still managed to do that.


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« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2005, 12:24 AM »

I used to have a video of a jet passing through the barrier. The sound it makes reminds me of a whip cracking. A whip that is 300 metres long and made of a lightweight alloy.


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« Reply #32 on: February 03, 2005, 01:27 PM »

The earlier supernova picture was of Eta Carinae, an explosion captured by Hubble in 1995.
More info here. Somehow the star actually survived, and is currently about 100 times the size of the sun.

Also, a tornado from space.


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« Reply #33 on: February 03, 2005, 01:31 PM »

i'm pretty sure that's probably a hurricane. tornadoes don't usually spread that wide.

which reminded me of these pictures which were attributed to photos of hurricane isabel, but which really were just wall clouds of really big storms.
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http://67.19.222.106/photos/graphics/isabel.jpg
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« Reply #34 on: February 23, 2005, 09:25 AM »

i don't know if this is real or not, but if so, it's fucking rad


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« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2005, 10:18 AM »

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I used to have a video of a jet passing through the barrier. The sound it makes reminds me of a whip cracking. A whip that is 300 metres long and made of a lightweight alloy.

That sound a whip makes, isn't that the whip breaking through (some sort of) a sound barrier? Or am I saying something rather silly here?

And to stay on topic, this wonderful Battleship blasting away


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« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2005, 10:22 AM »

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That sound a whip makes, isn't that the whip breaking through (some sort of) a sound barrier? Or am I saying something rather silly here?

In a somehwhat quaint way, that's a nNice idea, but no. There only is The sound barrier, the speed of sound. A whip just makes a loud noise.


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« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2005, 10:26 AM »

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That sound a whip makes, isn't that the whip breaking through (some sort of) a sound barrier? Or am I saying something rather silly here?

In a somehwhat quaint way, that's a nNice idea, but no. There only is The sound barrier, the speed of sound. A whip just makes a loud noise.

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« Reply #38 on: February 23, 2005, 11:40 AM »

Valles Marineris, the grand canyon of Mars.

Mimas, orbiting Saturn.


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« Reply #39 on: February 23, 2005, 02:02 PM »

Cat's Eye Nebula

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