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Show posts MenuQuote from: DigitalPigSnuggler on October 23, 2014, 08:33:11 AM
Fear not Onan, the movie is not about boners. Rather, it is the patrons sitting next to you like me and A : O who have boners. Nothing to fear. So go, watch and enjoy!
Quote from: DigitalPigSnuggler on October 22, 2014, 09:05:11 PMCount mine twice and start with three
Okay, that's two boners so far. Anyone else?
Quote from: coaster on October 22, 2014, 08:37:58 PMThis is amazing
The lastest one I've been working on-
Quote from: DigitalPigSnuggler on October 22, 2014, 11:01:27 AM
I'm interested to see it too, based on the trailer, and I am going to be really pissed off if it's a letdown.
Quote from: zeebo on August 25, 2014, 02:01:57 PM
I'm pretty sure even in my 'scope I've only really seen the bright core of Andromeda they mentioned. To pick up those wispy arms you need more optical horsepower I think.
I do remember reading somewhere that it is the farthest object away you can see with the naked eye, which is pretty cool. And I suspect most people don't realize how much crazier far away it really is.
The bright star Vega is only 25 lt. yrs. away, while Andromeda is 2.5 million lt. yrs. from us ... 100,000 times farther away.
Quote from: zeebo on August 25, 2014, 03:35:26 PMThese posts made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and gave me goosebumps. This is all converging on an extremely interesting and perhaps also somewhat obscure fact which makes me feel awe and reverence every time I really think about it.
Something to ponder whilst checking out Andromeda, is that the light you're picking up started it's journey to us around the very beginning of the Stone Age:
The Stone Age or Paleolithic Period is the name archaeologists have given to the beginning of archaeology--that part of the earth's history that includes the genus Homo and our immediate ancestor Australopithecus. It began approximately 2.5 million years ago, in Africa, when Australopithecus began making stone tools, and ended about 20,000 years ago, with big-brained and talented modern humans spread all over the world.
Quote from: DigitalPigSnuggler on September 26, 2014, 01:20:47 PM
Someone traveling into a black hole would not be aware that he had crossed the event horizon. For him, everything around him would behave as before crossing that line. At this point, though, his fate is sealed. He is doomed to be pulled into a long noodle and then pulled apart, his mass accreted by the singularity. But before that gruesome end, he would see the progress of the universe moving faster and faster into the future. So quickly that there would be no time to analyze it. It would be a very exciting way to die, though.
That's not exactly how it works. We see the star in motion until it slows down to the point that it appears to have stopped. That image fades out, but the formation of the black hole continues, out of our observation. The star disappears, and now there is a black hole. Or so goes the theory. Since we can't observe a black hole directly, there's often a disclaimer of the type outlined by AO above: it's either a black hole, or something different that behaves like a black hole in all of the ways that we can observe.
Quote from: onan on October 18, 2014, 12:53:53 PM
I bought solar eclipse glasses for everyone on my team... only to find out after the purchase... the sun sets in NC just as the eclipse is getting started... Yay me!
Quote from: Kelt on October 18, 2014, 08:21:01 AM
Pacific Rim was dumber than shit. One dimensional characters, a plot thinner than Debbie Does Dallas, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has two brain cells banging together inside their skull.
However... if you go into this movie knowing it's NOT Shakespeare, but rather giant robots smashing the shit out of giant monsters, accompanied by some of the most glorious CGI you've yet seen, then Pacific Rim is everything you could hope for. My kid loved it.
Quote from: area51drone on October 18, 2014, 02:24:13 AM
I was just joking with you, of course. I hope your family member gets better.
Quote from: area51drone on October 18, 2014, 12:21:47 AMActually been going through some pretty intense stuff lately besides work. One of my close family members is sick. But I have been slowly accumulating some thoughts about previous posts in a rant-filled text file that I can eventually drop in here.
AO has more time these days, it appears. How about going back and answering some of the questions we had for you? (AO slinkers back behind his comet)
Quote from: Camazotz Automat on October 18, 2014, 12:37:08 AM
Anytime I suspect I've been subjected to mind control recruitment propaganda, I have an absolutely decadent Mexican dinner with Stella Egyptian beer while re-watching They Live (1988).
I'm here to kick ass ... and chew bubble gum ...
Presto! Change-O! Cleaned neural axons!
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Quote from: Camazotz Automat on October 18, 2014, 12:01:40 AM
I am my own pharmacy. (so that's an automatic 'yes'. heh.)
I'm viewing the new Godzilla next week. I hope they didn't show the best parts in the ads.
I am surprised at how often I am grateful I didn't waste the time or money to see something when it was playing in the theater.
Quote from: Camazotz Automat on October 17, 2014, 11:54:47 PM
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Quote from: wr250 on October 17, 2014, 09:17:21 AM
np
as an aside , i have 2 welders masks (well 3, but one was at work so unavailible) . so about an hour before the eclipse, i went to the neighbors and told them "theres an total eclipse starting in an hour, i have a couple of welders masks do you and your kids want to see it?"
and sure enough about 10 kids and 5 or so adults were all taking turns with the masks, and the kids made a pinhole projector out of 2 pieces of white paper. 1 kid brought out a telescope, i told them to take it back int he house, because that will make you blind by burning your eyes. yes i know it could be projected onto a wall or something, but some of the kids were 2 and 3 so didnt want to take any chances.
Quote from: wr250 on October 16, 2014, 08:42:10 AM
isnt there a way to take the energy from the fusion reaction and directly turn it into say electricity , rather than use the reactions heat to boil water to drive turbines to make electricity , as we do now in nearly all electrical generation?
nuclear power plants, coal, natural gas, and dams all depend on water to make electricity. it seems rather inefficient (with the dams being more efficient than the rest).
Quote from: wr250 on October 17, 2014, 05:54:11 AM
here are some i took of a "ring of fire" eclipse through a welders mask :
Quote from: zeebo on October 17, 2014, 02:32:24 AM
As some inspiration to check it out, here's a pic I took of mini sun crescents filtering through some leaves, seen amongst shadows cast on a wall. This was from the May 2012 total eclipse. I had remembered seeing this effect during an eclipse I saw as a kid, but thought maybe I'd imagined it, so this time I took some pics so I'd have proof.
Quote from: area51drone on October 17, 2014, 06:47:22 AM
We should have some meetups for those of us in this thread in August 2017. I plan on heading to Oregon that day...
http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm