knapplc Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 These don't technically belong here, but they're intended to be space-like. They're images of food on a flatbed scanner with the lid left open.The creator said: I've always been a huge space geek for one. I'd also seen other scanography where people scan objects with the lid open to create an all black background and wondered if I might be able to use the same method to make space scenes out of spices for stars/galaxies, liquids for planets, etc. I was pretty surprised at how realistic it all can look. Nebula - tea, water, half & half, food coloringStars - flour, peppercornsPlanet and moon - pancakesBackground - olive oil, flour, cinnamon, cumin, seasoned saltHere's a whole gallery of them. Found them on Reddit.http://imgur.com/a/s3HzE Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars Quote Link to comment
cornographic Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Never been a huge fan of Space. Why? No air. I prefer air. I like the pretty pics, though. Which reminds me, saw this doc where they were thinking about colonizing the moon--our moon. Well, they figured they'd need some water up there--in addition to air--so all the best and brightest @ NASA and what not set up a yuge lab where they would attempt to extract water from moon rocks. Can't quite remember where they got the moon rocks, but they had enough to give it a whirl and about a zillion $ later, they did, in fact, extract about 1/2 cup of H2O from a big pile of moon rocks at which point, being the best and brightest that they were, concluded that they couldn't get, "water from a stone", so to speak, way too friggin' expensive, and it also wasn't worth the hassle trying to ship fresh H2O up from the Earth, not to mention the impending water shortage on Earth, sooooooo....project scrapped, no moon colonies anytime soon. They're still selling 1 way tickets to Mars, though, it seems....they really want to colonize space and transport all the human problems up there, I s'pose, but for me, again, not a fan of space, no air, no water, no gravity. I like it here just fine, tyvm. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 The sun eclipsed by Saturn. Photo taken by Cassini. 2 Quote Link to comment
Hooked on Huskers Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Lincoln Nebraska, August 21 2017, 11:37CDT, Duration: 2 hours and 53 minutes. First TOTAL solar eclipse in Lincoln since 1442, before Christopher Columbus !! The next event, 2245 ... hopefully 2 or 3 time CCG Husker winners. note: annular and total solar eclipses are different LINK Omaha is not in the path! Get down to Lincoln, or better yet, farther south toward Beatrice (2m35s at 1:02pm), for a better show! THAT'S RIGHT - IN OMAHA, the eclipse will never be total for you! You will need to use your eclipse glasses for the entire partial eclipse!And speaking of Lincoln, this second capital city in the path lies near its northern edge, so totality is shorter there - only 1m 25.5s (at 1:02pm) on the grounds of the beautiful State Capitol. The 50-yard-line at Husker stadium gets five seconds less time in the shadow, so you can see how important it is to get as far south as you can! Quote Link to comment
Hooked on Huskers Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 The sun eclipsed by Saturn. Photo taken by Cassini. I think is a fake picture because sun is a pea sized diameter vs. dollar coin on above Saturn picture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuwyY2DzO2I Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Newly-Discovered Planet Has 3 Suns If you thought Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine, was a strange world with its two suns in the sky, imagine this: a planet with either constant daylight or triple sunrises and sunsets each day depending on the seasons (which last longer than human lifetimes). Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 NASA and Science's joke: 400 years in the making http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/blogs/nasas-jupiter-probe-just-delivered-punchline-400-years-making It has become tradition to name newly discovered Jupiter moons after the many girlfriends and boyfriends of the Roman god (when astronomers ran out of candidates in 2004, they started using the names of children born to Jupiter and his many paramours). Now, with the hope of learning more about our mysterious gassy friend, NASA has sent a probe to Jupiter the Juno spacecraft entered the planet's orbit this weekend, and will come close enough to investigate what goes on over there (i.e. to bust up the party) this August. NASA's big joke? The spacecraft is named Juno, after Jupiter's wife. https://mobile.twitter.com/NASAJuno/status/750175911614353408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 At first I thought this was photo shopped. But instead of the satellite being in geosynchronous orbit which is between the Earth and the Moon, it is in a Lagrangian point, specifically L-1. I didn't know we had satellites there. 1 Quote Link to comment
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