This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
#76 | Back to Top12-30-2014 12:22:50 AM
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You only think the ESA has more computer expertise than your mother.
It is only by a lack of expertise that people fail to try this first to solve problems. 
(Seriously, how many people have you gently told to do this when they swear nothing is going to work?)
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#77 | Back to Top06-13-2015 10:13:08 AM
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This has been circulating around the web lately. Photos of the derelict Buran Soviet space shuttle that never made it to space.
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#78 | Back to Top06-14-2015 02:06:47 AM
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I just drank a bottle of Space Beer.
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#79 | Back to Top06-14-2015 06:56:45 AM
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This is great news. There had been technical issues with the probe over the last couple days, including one where -- I shit you not -- the European Space Agency fixed the problem by turning it off and then back on. You only think the ESA has more computer expertise than your mother.
Next: Bruce Willis blows it up.
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#80 | Back to Top06-14-2015 04:35:39 PM
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Ashnod wrote:
satyreyes wrote:
This is great news. There had been technical issues with the probe over the last couple days, including one where -- I shit you not -- the European Space Agency fixed the problem by turning it off and then back on. You only think the ESA has more computer expertise than your mother.
Next: Bruce Willis blows it up.
Yeah, I just read about that this morning. Silly little lander. It's the weekend, you should be sleeping in like everyone else.
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#81 | Back to Top06-25-2015 10:40:56 PM
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Reposting from my facebook: I have no idea if the math involved in creating this image is correct, but the individual who directed me to it stated this is how big the Andromeda galaxy would appear in our sky (approximately 6 moons wide) if all of its stars were bright enough to be observed with the naked eye from Earth.
To put this into perspective, this galaxy is roughly 780 kiloparsecs or 2,538,000 light years from our planet, and it is roughly 260,000 light years in diameter. That's how far away it is and given that's how large it is, it would be this size in our sky if its light were brighter from that distance. It's 2.5 million light years away, so cut light a little slack.
IF we could see it with the naked eye like this, remember that we would be seeing it as it was 2.5 million years ago. It's difficult to imagine the scope of the cosmos sometimes, but it does not hurt to try.
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#82 | Back to Top06-26-2015 01:34:47 AM
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I really have nothing of worth to say here except that that is absolutely beautiful.
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#84 | Back to Top06-26-2015 05:20:25 AM
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I used to think Andromeda was the boogieman when I was a kid after watching a documentary that said it will crash into our galaxy in billions of years and merge its black hole with ours to create a superhuge one. I really was a dumb kid sometimes.
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#85 | Back to Top09-18-2015 06:34:06 AM
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Bravo. Bravo. 
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#86 | Back to Top09-28-2015 12:18:20 AM
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We all psyched up for NASA's big announcement?
I know everyone has the money on there being flowing water on Mars, but how awesome would it be if they found something like fossils? (not going to pin my hopes on Martian life.)
We live in a fuck awesome time. 
This year alone we've seen full colour, incredibly detailed photographs of not only Pluto, but Charon as well, and now some serious shit's going down on Mars. If the human species survives the next world war with/between China and Russia, our grandchildren are going to ask us about all the things us Gen Y and Gen X people have seen and lived through.
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#87 | Back to Top11-04-2015 10:33:36 PM
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#88 | Back to Top11-06-2015 02:42:16 PM
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The scale of it, jeebus. 
I always find things like this comforting, the absurd size of the universe renders most of my worries pretty irrelevant, and though I can see how that would bother someone, I just find it to be a relief.
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#89 | Back to Top01-12-2016 08:58:40 AM
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I don't know how interesting anybody else will find it, but my SO has just learned that Nasa releases albums of "space sounds" on SoundCloud -he's actually planning on mixing them into the soundtrack for his podcast, so he linked me. Some of it is procedural stuff and order transmissions sort of things, but some of it is eerie, particularly things like the lightning on Jupiter and the Kepler tracks. Enjoy. there are larger libraries available elsewhere if you're interested, but SC is the most easily accessible.
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#90 | Back to Top01-13-2016 04:44:26 AM
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Oh hell yeah the Saturn radio transmissions and stuff that creep me out. Alien music is awesome.
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#91 | Back to Top01-14-2016 06:44:48 AM
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I just want to say that it is always a joy to see others contributing to this thread, even if updates only come every other month or so.
If you love the cosmic and love watching our fledgling steps to touch it, know that you are in my heart. 
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#92 | Back to Top02-10-2016 09:37:02 PM
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This is a few years old, but here: a quick 4-minute video about the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, including a 3D model of it.
The whole video:
https://youtu.be/oAVjF_7ensg
Skip to the model:
https://youtu.be/oAVjF_7ensg?t=2m52s
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#93 | Back to Top02-17-2016 06:16:15 AM
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Free Posters from the Jet Propulsion Lab / NASA.
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#94 | Back to Top02-17-2016 06:03:47 PM
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(( Hey... did any of you all take part in the Smithsonian's "Reboot the Suit" Kickstarter thingy?
I know it isn't space per se, but... you can't go into space without a spacesuit. Right?
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unless you're Batman. He can breathe in space just fine. Um... yeah. Me and my dumb sense of humor.
Anyway, if you guys didn't get a chance to see it, a whiles back, the Smithsonian Institute was asking for help to clean / repair / restore the spacesuits worn during the missions to the moon. I think they ended up busting through their request value within like a day or something. ))
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#95 | Back to Top02-17-2016 06:37:22 PM
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Aw, no, I didn't see that one! I'd have kicked in for sure. I did help with Bill Nye's lightsail project a while back, and I'm looking forward to that thing going into space. 
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#96 | Back to Top05-19-2016 07:44:28 AM
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#97 | Back to Top05-24-2016 06:24:39 AM
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Take some time to watch this.
It is about size and scope in the cosmos.
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#98 | Back to Top05-28-2016 05:18:01 PM
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(( Well... I have to not, watch, Genius again, on PBS. Especially when Georgia-PBS marathons it.
After having my mind blown, REPEATEDLY, I think I get just how much of an expansive mind Stephen Hawking has, he really does make some of the topics of the universe into aspects that the common folks on the street can understand.
Hat's off to you, Stephen Hawking. ))
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