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Jamesikan Star Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:19 pm Post subject: Favorite Cosmic Object |
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What is your favorite object that exists outside of the Earth's atmosphere?
Mine would have to be pulsars. Here's something to make you think:
Blink as fast as you can 15 times. In the time it took you to blink all 15 of those, a pulsar somewhere in the Universe just spun 50+ times.
It's mind-boggling.
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ocho Retired Number
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Xenu. |
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Conker Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Oort cloud. Asteroid belt. Saturn's rings. There's so many things to discuss. _________________ (❍ᴥ❍ʋ) ʕʘᴥʘʔ (⌐ ͡■ ͜ʖ ͡■) (┛◉Д◉)┛( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽ |
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Free_Kobe Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Uranus _________________ ♪ ♫One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain...
So hit me with music! ♪ ♫ |
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LarryCoon Site Staff
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Enceladus
Those jets are geysers of water shooting up through cracks in the surface. Either that, or it's on full afterburners....I'm not sure.
It has heat (due to tidal forces), an atmosphere, water in liquid form beneath its surface, and they have detected hydrocarbons -- all the essential ingredients of life. And it's right here in our solar system -- it's one of the moons of Saturn. |
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Jamesikan Star Player
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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LarryCoon wrote: | Enceladus
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/6232_15672_1.jpg
Those jets are geysers of water shooting up through cracks in the surface. Either that, or it's on full afterburners....I'm not sure.
It has heat (due to tidal forces), an atmosphere, water in liquid form beneath its surface, and they have detected hydrocarbons -- all the essential ingredients of life. And it's right here in our solar system -- it's one of the moons of Saturn. |
I love astronomy so much!!!
Here's to Enceladus! |
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angrypuppy Retired Number
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Horsehead Nebula
Striking resemblance to my first girlfriend. _________________ We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
-Joni Mitchell |
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LarryCoon Site Staff
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Alaskan Laker Fan wrote: | I love astronomy so much!!!
Here's to Enceladus! |
You'll love this one, if you haven't already seen it:
It's not an artist's depiction. It's a photograph. (Well, a composite of many stitched-together photographs, but a photograph nonetheless.) |
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Omar Little Moderator
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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angrypuppy wrote: | Horsehead Nebula
Striking resemblance to my first girlfriend. |
You dated Exick? _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel |
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Jamesikan Star Player
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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That picture of Saturn really is quite exquisite. It's amazing to think what grandiose phenomena and matter can be found lurking in the dark, vast depths of the Cosmos. |
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Jamesikan Star Player
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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LINK
Long URL I know, but the picture is worth it.
Every point of light, every smear and smudge is a galaxy. Containing billions upon billions of stars.
It's mindbogglingly huge.
AND this was taken in a patch of sky not much bigger than one hundredth the size of the Moon.
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LarryCoon Site Staff
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: |
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I fixed your URL. Hit the edit button on your post to see what I did -- that's what you need to do to post URLs without a long link showing. |
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Jamesikan Star Player
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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LarryCoon wrote: | I fixed your URL. Hit the edit button on your post to see what I did -- that's what you need to do to post URLs without a long link showing. |
Thanks! |
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GameFace Starting Rotation
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George Clinton. |
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brutella Star Player
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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LarryCoon wrote: | Enceladus
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/6232_15672_1.jpg
Those jets are geysers of water shooting up through cracks in the surface. Either that, or it's on full afterburners....I'm not sure.
It has heat (due to tidal forces), an atmosphere, water in liquid form beneath its surface, and they have detected hydrocarbons -- all the essential ingredients of life. And it's right here in our solar system -- it's one of the moons of Saturn. |
Pandora? |
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