here comes the fun cooker
― caek, Monday, 11 May 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
lol those birds are going to die
― caek, Monday, 11 May 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Planck/Herschel launch tomorrow: http://planckmission.wordpress.com/
― caek, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
meanwhile...
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001939/
The Spirit rover on Mars is currently stuck in a patch of loose material. After a few attempts to get free, the team has wisely decided to do further experiments on Earth instead of on Mars. They will now recreate the conditions in our sandbox at JPL and test out different sequences until one works reliably here, then try it on Mars.
http://www.planetary.org/image/DSC_0037_PIA07986-A476R1_br2.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I love this stuff, awesome.
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL @ camouflage all around so it would feel at home
― StanM, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.videocorner.tv/videocorner2/live_flv/index.php?langue=en
― caek, Thursday, 14 May 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
textbook launch of herschel and planck
― caek, Thursday, 14 May 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.esa.int/images/ImageVMC_L.gif
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEM4SJZVNUF_0.html
Stunning images taken from Earth and space show Herschel and Planck in flight on 14 May 2009. The first, taken from Herschel, show the Planck-Sylda composite just after Herschel's separation, about 1150 km above Africa. A second set taken from ESA's Optical Ground Station, shows Herschel, Planck, Sylda and the launcher’s upper stage long after separation, travelling together at an altitude of about 100 000 km.
― caek, Friday, 15 May 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/may09/atlantis15_sm/atlantis15_15.jpg
― caek, Friday, 15 May 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Solar transit photos: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/15/check-this-out-amazing-photo-of-the-sun/
Sun + Shuttlehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3531410425/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3531410377/
Sun + Shuttle + Hubblehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3531350583/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/3532145692/
(from 2006) Sun + Shuttle + ISShttp://www.sbig.com/award/legault/iss_shuttle.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 15 May 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I love this thread.
― Roz, Friday, 15 May 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3531410425_f94db338c2.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait - this is one of the photos Stan linked to. Ho hum...worth seeing twice imo.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
It's on today's Times frontpage as well
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00557/saturday-front_557241a.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:37 (fifteen years ago) link
how do we get early floyd references on the covers of u.s. newspapers?
― elliot easton ellis (get bent), Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(isn't timesonline.co.uk from the UK ?)
― StanM, Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
exactly
― elliot easton ellis (get bent), Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh! You mean you want to get early Floyd ... sorry, didn't get that.
― StanM, Saturday, 16 May 2009 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Put on some pink floyd and check this out! (multiple videos in a row, cameras on the rocket boosters from launch to splashdown)
― StanM, Friday, 22 May 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Downward-facing camera that starts at around 12:20 is amazing, but the two forward-facing ones are great when the shuttle separates, it's like "C U later doodz!" ZOOOOM!
Kinda frightening that 120 seconds is all it takes to get from the ground to black skies and being able to see the entire curve of the Earth. I can't even get to an RTA station from where I'm sitting that quickly.
― Slowly Rotating Black Man (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 22 May 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
it's only 90,000 feet at that stage, which is like three times higher than a plane goes. that atmosphere is some thin shit.
― caek, Friday, 22 May 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I know it's not the safest way of going up there and that's why the Shuttle program is being shut down, but seeing these videos, I don't know, I'm overcome with the beauty and elegance of this thing and I'm going to miss Space Shuttles :-/
― StanM, Friday, 22 May 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I've now watched that whole thing four times today. Shadow of the smoke plume during liftoff! Smoke plume in the distance during tumble down! Sound! Chutes! Just the concept of mounting cameras on these things at all! *childishly enthusiastic, as usual* :-)
― StanM, Friday, 22 May 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Companion video...
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone needs to sync this shit up in a 4 way split screen
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 22 May 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Like this one from 1996? http://www.nasa.gov/mov/mov/151917main_sts-121_srb_separation_composite.mov
― StanM, Saturday, 23 May 2009 06:57 (fifteen years ago) link
lol:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1577http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1578
On 23 April light from the explosion of a star was detected. the star blew up 600 million years after the big bang, which is over 13 billion years ago.
I.e. six weeks ago some people saw the oldest object anyone has ever seen. Boom.
― caek, Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/38000/38985/ISS020-E-09048.jpg
Volcano from the ISS
more here
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38985
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/38000/38985/ISS020-E-09048_lrg.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3656910551_8377ddf36c_o.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/3656910999_63dd468fc3_o.jpg
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 27 June 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
if you put some eyes on that white plume, it would look like waldorf of "statler and" fame.
― butch vigoda (get bent), Saturday, 27 June 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
eat your heart out jeff minter...http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090728.html
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
another good one todayhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090805.html
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
betelgeuse pops up in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q
― caek, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
(no it doesn't)
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, ok, it's about the same size as Antares A
― caek, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
meteor shower tonight kids.
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/patrick-moore-full.jpg
― caek, Friday, 4 September 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
good grief, the new hubble imager fitted a few months ago is good
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-25-a-large_web.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean honestly
― caek, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
good lord
― Monsieur Queueue (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
those are photographs or real things, guys!
― caek, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-25-e-large_web.jpg
DEAR EARTH,
FUCK YOU
LOVE SPACE
― caek, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― am0n, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
caek do u ever use that celestia program i linked in the space is dope thread
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-25-x-large_web.jpg
CHECK ME OUT I AM SPACE
― caek, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw that, yuh. never used it, but it is on my weekend bookmarks, so will check it out : )
I MEAN HONESTLY
― caek, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
(ok, not literally on the APOD page, but)
HOLY CRAP: a 200 Mb jpg!?
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2007016a/warn/hires/true/
whole gallery: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/hires/true/
― StanM, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://stsciopo.cachefly.net/hu/db/images/hs-2007-16-a-xlarge_web.jpg
MIND FUCK
ONCE YOU SEE IT BRICKS WILL BE SHAT
― caek, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
God's skull! Nietzsche was right, he IS dead! :-)
― StanM, Friday, 2 October 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link