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Title: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 14, 2007, 02:15:14 PM
Phil Plait's top ten astronomy pictures of 2007:


enjoy! (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/12/13/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2007/)

Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on December 14, 2007, 02:19:46 PM
Excellent!  cloud9:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Bar Wench on December 14, 2007, 02:24:49 PM
I was going to post something about boring old boffins but that was actually quite interesting!  redface:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 14, 2007, 02:30:24 PM
 point:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Bar Wench on December 14, 2007, 02:30:45 PM
No need to rub it in!
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 14, 2007, 02:57:57 PM
Sorry.

Did you click on the high resolution image?

IC 342 (http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d2/ic342.jpg)

Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on December 23, 2007, 08:45:38 PM
Bllody hell Mort....Space the final frontier or wot???
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 10, 2008, 03:25:38 PM
Jupiter this time ~ from the 'New Horizons' spacecraft on it's way to Pluto:


 
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPq42SR09.jpg&hash=295ec51e8613207cef0d363ea597eec63bb760fe) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq42SR09)
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Berek on January 10, 2008, 03:47:58 PM
The universe is indeed a beautiful place, only a higher being could have created such a thing...

















then fucked up with us.
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Nick on January 10, 2008, 08:20:33 PM
 evil: quite
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: TG on January 14, 2008, 01:12:32 PM
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/pics/EN0108693445M.jpg

Pic of Mercury flyby happening now. Apparently it will pass within 200km anytime now then will zoom off and not be able to go into Mercury orbit till 2011.  eeek:

Stll, no rush eh?

Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Nick on January 14, 2008, 01:13:50 PM
This is interesting

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ (http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/)

Sorry TG. I was posting that at exactly the same time as you!! rubschin:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: TG on January 14, 2008, 01:17:42 PM
This is interesting

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ (http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/)

Sorry TG. I was posting that at exactly the same time as you!! rubschin:

 eeek:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 14, 2008, 01:23:07 PM
Note the 'Current Total Distance Travelled' It's certainly moving!
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: TG on January 14, 2008, 02:26:00 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html

Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on January 14, 2008, 02:28:35 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


Duracell I 'spec...  whistle:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 14, 2008, 03:17:18 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


I bet not many other things over 30 could still probe Uranus.
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Snoopy on January 14, 2008, 03:22:47 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


I bet not many other things over 30 could still probe Uranus.

That bloody vet is 60 if he's a day  evil:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 14, 2008, 03:43:43 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


I bet not many other things over 30 could still probe Uranus.

That bloody vet is 60 if he's a day  evil:

Not the cold hands as well?   noooo:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Snoopy on January 14, 2008, 03:49:29 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


I bet not many other things over 30 could still probe Uranus.

That bloody vet is 60 if he's a day  evil:

Not the cold hands as well?   noooo:

TBH I stupidly made a remark to an elderly locum about having to get up to pee several times a night. Without hesitation he launched into one about the need for regular prostate checks for men of a "certain age" and had his latex glove on before I could say NO!
In point of fact he declared, in what I thought was a disappointed tone, that my prostate felt fine ..... I then got the chance to refer him to my notes which revealed the reason for the night time excursions .... diuretics ~ prescribed to me as to most patients with heart failure. ::)
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on January 14, 2008, 04:03:52 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


I bet not many other things over 30 could still probe Uranus.

That bloody vet is 60 if he's a day  evil:

Not the cold hands as well?   noooo:

TBH I stupidly made a remark to an elderly locum about having to get up to pee several times a night. Without hesitation he launched into one about the need for regular prostate checks for men of a "certain age" and had his latex glove on before I could say NO!
In point of fact he declared, in what I thought was a disappointed tone, that my prostate felt fine ..... I then got the chance to refer him to my notes which revealed the reason for the night time excursions .... diuretics ~ prescribed to me as to most patients with heart failure. ::)
They all seem rather too eager to get the rubber glove on don’t they…  rubschin:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 14, 2008, 06:14:49 PM
Just around the corner compared to these two. 30 years on and still working. Built to last or what?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager-20071210.html


I bet not many other things over 30 could still probe Uranus.

That bloody vet is 60 if he's a day  evil:

Not the cold hands as well?   noooo:

TBH I stupidly made a remark to an elderly locum about having to get up to pee several times a night. Without hesitation he launched into one about the need for regular prostate checks for men of a "certain age" and had his latex glove on before I could say NO!
In point of fact he declared, in what I thought was a disappointed tone, that my prostate felt fine ..... I then got the chance to refer him to my notes which revealed the reason for the night time excursions .... diuretics ~ prescribed to me as to most patients with heart failure. ::)
They all seem rather too eager to get the rubber glove on don’t they…  rubschin:

It wouldn't be so bad if they took off their watches first.  shocked003
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 17, 2008, 04:35:16 PM
More pictures from Messenger:


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPq4Lwqir.jpg&hash=5c74724ae409f72ed18ee5c147487c9f6072789c) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq4Lwqir)



(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPq4LwvhJ.jpg&hash=e8ef47611398bf1da8a8436e87b17b7c79887523) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq4LwvhJ)
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 17, 2008, 04:43:34 PM
Wonderful pictures, although I thought it would be sunnier.
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on January 17, 2008, 04:51:11 PM
Factor 15 at least...  whistle:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 17, 2008, 05:11:35 PM
Surface temperature at noon = 427°C

Phew, what a scorcher!
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on January 17, 2008, 05:15:28 PM
Surface temperature at noon = 427°C

Phew, what a scorcher!
Bloody hell! I'd have to slap on factor 20 then!  whistle:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 17, 2008, 05:42:47 PM
Surface temperature at noon = 427°C

Phew, what a scorcher!
Bloody hell! I'd have to slap on factor 20 then!  whistle:

Don't forget the knotted hanky to protect that pink scalp.
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on January 17, 2008, 05:46:02 PM
Surface temperature at noon = 427°C

Phew, what a scorcher!
Bloody hell! I'd have to slap on factor 20 then!  whistle:

Don't forget the knotted hanky to protect that pink scalp.
Oh Darwin... I expected it but not from you...  noooo:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 17, 2008, 05:55:40 PM
Surface temperature at noon = 427°C

Phew, what a scorcher!
Bloody hell! I'd have to slap on factor 20 then!  whistle:
Don't forget the knotted hanky to protect that pink scalp.
Oh Darwin... I expected it but not from you...  noooo:

It's a pack animal thing, a kind of feeding frenzy.  redface:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Barman on January 17, 2008, 05:56:36 PM
Surface temperature at noon = 427°C

Phew, what a scorcher!
Bloody hell! I'd have to slap on factor 20 then!  whistle:
Don't forget the knotted hanky to protect that pink scalp.
Oh Darwin... I expected it but not from you...  noooo:

It's a pack animal thing, a kind of feeding frenzy.  redface:
noooo:
Title: Re: Bad Astronomy's Top Ten
Post by: Nick on January 19, 2008, 08:30:11 PM
Que?