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do we have any astronomers in this bitch?

i really totally DIG space, man!!

I check out spaceweather.com EVERY DAY just to see what's blowin' around out there in our beautiful SOLAR SYSTEM

here's our SUN, all blazin' and stuff

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest_eit_284.gif

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

was up at chabot science center last friday chillin' with the telescopes

one couple had theirs out pointed at Andromeda and the woman said 'honey do you remember M93?' and he just looked at her, put his arms around her and they kissed and I looked away into SPACE

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stardome.org.nz/images/gallerypics/eyeneb.jpg

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Spooks in Space!!!

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

awesome site with huge archive

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I am an enthusiast of that song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Evidentally the current "space tourist" is my boyfriend's father's close friend. They get postcards from him that are like "HI! I'm in space! You're not!"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/030604_viking_mars_04.jpg

Mars in 1976... why haven't we gone yet???!!!

― andy --, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Why do they colorize all space photos? It's a bit misleading. It's like, "Can you see those colors? Can you take a picture of those colors? No? Okay, thanks bye."

― Science Photographers Want To Be Artists, Too, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

andy, it's because we're spending all our good space money on things like looking for WMD in places where they don't exist and fighting a war that no-one wants to fight.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Coloring the Universe: Why Reality is a Gray Area in Astronomy

― Science Photographers Want To Be Artists, Too, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/sputnik910/zvezdochka.jpg

The spacecraft carrying the dog Zvezdochka was launched from Baikonur at 0600 UT on 25 March 1961. The spacecraft weighed 4695 kg and entered an orbit at i = 64.9o and 178.1-247 km.

COSMOMUTT!!

― andy --, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

RIP LAIKA
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/lgifs/Laikastamp.GIF

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Something so sad about shooting animals on suicide missions to space. Obvioulsy sad, but also lonely for the poor dog that's worked so hard during training.

― andy --, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Space is infinite.
It is dark.
Space is neutral.
It is cold.
Stars occupy minute areas of space. They are clustered a few billion here. A few billion there. As if seeking consolation in numbers. Space does not care.

Space does not threaten.
Space does not comfort.
It does not sleep;
It does not wake;
It does not dream;
It does not hope;
It does not fear;
It does not love;
It does not hate;
It does not encourage any of these qualities.
Space cannot be measured.
It cannot be angered.
It cannot be placated.
It cannot be summed up.
Space is there.
Space is not large and it is not small. It does not live and it does not die. It does not offer truth and neither does it lie. Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact.
Space is the absence of time and of matter.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

oh that's a lot of bullshit. space is my friend.

― color coded pumpkin, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

If you don't already have the Astronomy Picture of the Day on your Favorites, check it out and put it on NOW! It's great!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

If you don't already have the Astronomy Picture of the Day on your Favorites, check it out and put it on NOW! It's great!

Yeah that is good photoshop.

― Science Photographers Want To Be Artists, Too, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Space indeed:

http://vimeo.com/15091562

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:45 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

NASA: an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

What will it be?????

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

very curious!

― "smokin' hot" albeit in a "Nickelback on iPod" sort of way (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

some rock with a germ on it or a planet a zillion light years away that appears to have the right atmosphere for life... maybe... a zillion years ago.

― ed chilliband (max arrrrrgh), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

or maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMT4IlYTo7E

― ed chilliband (max arrrrrgh), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

very cool:

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

― Darin, Thursday, 26 July 2012 06:18 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

i really had not thought enough about this issue in a non-fictional perspective. i did not expect to find this general 'sciencey-for-nonscientists' approach to be this entertaining for me. i didn't think i could listen to this for an hour.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-should-humans-communicate-aliens

― Hunt3r, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:07 (seven years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/bone.jpg

this is from several months ago ago but i only just came across it: an object traveling over 2 million mph fractured a massive 230 light-years long structure (known as a “bone”) in the Milky Way

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-diagnoses-cause-of-fracture-in-galactic-bone/

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 November 2025 17:36 (two months ago)

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