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grapes replied to a thread Parker Solar Probe in Space Exploration

Off season?

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2018-Aug-11, 04:12 PM

gzhpcu replied to a thread All about your avatar in Off-Topic Babbling

As a kid, “The Jungle Book” was my favorite book and I loved Bagheera, the black panther. I have painted big cats since then, and chose on of my...

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2018-Aug-11, 12:21 AM

grapes replied to a thread does gravitational time dilation slow light down? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

do you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift#Terrestrial_tests

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2018-Aug-11, 12:09 AM

grapes replied to a thread All about your avatar in Off-Topic Babbling

They sure do! One moderator has a thread with 10 thousand bottles of beer on the wall

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2018-Aug-10, 10:59 PM

grapes replied to a thread All about your avatar in Off-Topic Babbling

Roughly. The first four stopped at kilopi, so 4x3000, plus 11K for hhEb, 8K for now, that's 31K woot! I betcha I'm close to 31415.9 posts right...

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2018-Aug-10, 06:17 PM

grapes replied to a thread All about your avatar in Off-Topic Babbling

A red blurred reversed version of John Sibbick's 1994 illustration of a rhomaleosaurus: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1077809...

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2018-Aug-09, 03:06 PM

grapes replied to a thread Gravitational time dilation, and weight. in Science and Technology

To be clear, in the absence of atmospheric drag, just newtonian gravity, there is no spiraling, it's either in orbit or it collides. Of course,...

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2018-Aug-09, 12:20 AM

grapes replied to a thread New Theory on Big Bang alternative. in Against the Mainstream

And, another halfway. This is not looking good

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2018-Aug-08, 09:55 PM

grapes replied to a poll who has A Moondial? in Off-Topic Babbling

The North Star is mag 2, so it doesn't necessarily jump out at people Remember, sometimes those two right hand stars are to the left (when it has...

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2018-Aug-08, 04:39 AM

grapes replied to a poll who has A Moondial? in Off-Topic Babbling

I used to be able to tell time by looking at the North Star and the various circumpolar stars--took a little calculating, but I could get within ten...

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2018-Aug-04, 08:55 PM

grapes replied to a thread AMOC aka the Gulf Stream System, is it a weakening trend? in Science and Technology

Isn't that the movie where the killer frost chases them through the streets of New York and they manage to shut the library doors on it just in time,...

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2018-Aug-04, 02:53 AM

grapes replied to a thread Child in Freefall ?....maybe not in Science and Technology

"This suggests that the rescue of the child could have been staged" Wasn't the rescue well filmed? So, they're really not suggesting that the...

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2018-Aug-03, 10:16 AM

gzhpcu replied to a thread Study says we are probably alone in the universe in Life in Space

This article sums it up nicely: (we think we are special..., not the first time...) ...

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2018-Jul-29, 07:58 PM

grapes replied to a thread Mars Close and Bright in Late July in Astronomy

What? Mars is -3 magnitude! so sorry ...

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2018-Jul-28, 04:25 PM

grapes replied to a thread Buzz Aldrin admits we never went to the Moon!!! in Conspiracy Theories

"We need to know why something stopped in the past, if we wanted to keep it going." The keep it going part, is what didn't happen. ETA: links...

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2018-Jul-28, 04:18 PM

grapes replied to a thread Mars Close and Bright in Late July in Astronomy

Good point. Since the sun is high in the northern summer sky, the ecliptic dips low in the night sky. Mars' orbit is inclined less than two degrees...

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2018-Jul-27, 04:18 AM

grapes replied to a thread I'm Going To Take some Time Off. in Off-Topic Babbling

This could also cause a slight rending of the fabric of the universe. Interesting ...

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2018-Jul-27, 04:12 AM

grapes replied to a thread Does this Newtonian thing about gravity apply in relativity? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Besides Ken's comments, I want to point out that this is a newtonian conclusion only with spherically symmetric inner and outer shells. Without the...

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2018-Jul-27, 04:02 AM

grapes replied to a thread Have underground storage spaces for public bins been thought of? in Off-Topic Babbling

The construction of a childcare center was held up, mid build, when they realized that they hadn't satisfied the storm water runoff requirements. ...

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2018-Jul-22, 01:46 PM

gzhpcu replied to a thread UFO Sightings Down? in Conspiracy Theories

Simply because with a smartphone almost anyone can take a photo, as opposed to the few percentage of persons walking around with a camera.

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2018-Jul-22, 06:56 AM

gzhpcu replied to a thread UFO Sightings Down? in Conspiracy Theories

The rise of smartphones is certainly a valid argument for the decrease of sightings of "ufos".

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2018-Jul-20, 05:28 PM

grapes replied to a thread Mars Close and Bright in Late July in Astronomy

For objects with similar densities, their gravitational effect is proportional to their arc area in the sky (so the sun has half the tidal effect of...

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2018-Jul-20, 09:41 AM

grapes replied to a thread Mars Close and Bright in Late July in Astronomy

The "original" email somehow left off the "through a telescope" explanatory phrase. But what do you mean by feel it?

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2018-Jul-19, 09:04 PM

grapes replied to a thread Well-loved places you can never go back to in Off-Topic Babbling

Only after reading your post and thinking about it did I realize that almost all of mine (before I was 18) have been torn down. Four of them,...

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2018-Jul-19, 08:23 PM

grapes replied to a thread Hey guys! (waves) in Off-Topic Babbling

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2018-Jul-19, 08:16 PM

grapes replied to a thread Mars Close and Bright in Late July in Astronomy

You mean, you expect the brightness of the eclipsed full moon to be less than that of mars? Is that what you mean by literally? :)

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2018-Jul-19, 05:56 PM

gzhpcu replied to a thread UFO Sightings Down? in Conspiracy Theories

Here is another report stating just the opposite: ‘Rebutting a common perception that U.F.O. sightings are on the wane, the Costas’ book shows...

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