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Old 01-12-2010, 09:45 AM   #361
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I love this image. It is soooo cool.

Pulled from the Bad Astronomer

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...garithmically/

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OMG NERD BONER, IMAX HUBBLE 3D!!!

Watch the HQ Apple trailer, and cry your pants.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/imax/hubble3d/
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Old 01-13-2010, 11:03 PM   #363
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Yah, narrated by Morgan Freeman..

No? Ah, must be narrated by David Attenborough then.

No?? Peter Thomas from Nova then I guess...

NO? Generic woman with a British accent?

... Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio??

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Old 01-13-2010, 11:07 PM   #364
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DiCaprio is actually quite the science buff..I'm not surprised at all.
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Old 01-13-2010, 11:12 PM   #365
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I don't care if he can do Lorenz transformations in his head, Hubble deserves a voice with authority and dignity, not the voice of a wiener.
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Old 01-13-2010, 11:14 PM   #366
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lol I don't mind Leonardo, he's a big geek about this stuff. But yeah Morgan would be amazing.
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Old 01-13-2010, 11:23 PM   #367
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Speaking of cool images, can't remember where I got this one but to put an image on our solar system's gravity.

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Old 01-14-2010, 07:52 AM   #368
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AL30 Asteroid as it whizzed by us yesterday.

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Amateur astronomers heeded the call of making observations of the small
asteroid 2010 AL30, which whizzed by Earth today. Here are some of the great images and
videos captured by the amateur astronomy community, which will help the professionals
determine the exact orbit, and also perhaps what exactly this unusual asteroid is.
The object, which has been estimated to be between 10-15 meters (30 -50 feet) across,
is likely a natural object, but it hasn't officially been ruled out that it might be man-made,
i.e., a spent rocket booster, from perhaps the Venus Express mission.
The folks who are apt to make the determination are those who work with the 70-meter
radio dish at Goldstone. I corresponded with Lance Benner from the Goldstone facility,
and he said, "We're still working with the data so it's still too early to say."
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01...-of-2010-al30/




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Old 01-14-2010, 08:49 AM   #369
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So what would happen if that asteroid hit our moon? Anything? Or just get absorbed?
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Old 01-14-2010, 09:01 AM   #370
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The moon has been hit thousands of times by all sorts of cosmic debris. The evidence is there. No atmosphere on the moon preserves the craters for us to see. Most of the craters are from long ago when the solar system was forming and there were many more objects in the system. That being said, objects do and will impact both the moon and earth regularly.

If this 10-15m wide asteroid had impacted either one, nothing much would have happened. On earth it probably would have broken apart in the atmosphere. On the Moon, it would have impacted, but probably not that big of a deal.

The bigger you get, the more of a deal it is obviously, but an asteroid of this size is nothing to lose sleep over.
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So we wouldn't have had to send Bruce Willis up to blow it in half?
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Old 01-14-2010, 09:21 AM   #372
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You know, back in April, Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) came to Calgary and gave a lecture at the Science center, and one of his main topics was Hollywood Movies vs Science.

This was what I wrote at the time in this thread:

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He did say though that a similar movie released the same year, Deep Impact, was one of the best scientifically done movies. The only real mistake they made was that when they blew up the 5 mile comet, it's pieces wouldn't have disintegrated in the atmosphere, the 5 miles of mass still has the same amount of energy whether it is in one chuck or a million chunks, so everyone would have died still.
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Old 01-15-2010, 12:58 PM   #373
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Not really science news, but don't want to start a new thread on it, and this is as close a place as any.

Richard Carrier is having a debate on the existence of God in Calgary, and the next day will be speaking about the historicity of Jesus:

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2...n-calgary.html

The stuff he's written is pretty good, I won't be in town AGAIN (I missed Phil Plait too), someone else might like to go though.
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I've never read any of his stuff. I might try to skip work early and head down though.
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Not really science news, but don't want to start a new thread on it, and this is as close a place as any.

Richard Carrier is having a debate on the existence of God in Calgary, and the next day will be speaking about the historicity of Jesus:

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2...n-calgary.html

The stuff he's written is pretty good, I won't be in town AGAIN (I missed Phil Plait too), someone else might like to go though.
Hmmm, typical intellectual elitist, coming here to tell us that God doesn't exist in our city. If he wants to see somewhere that God clearly does not exist, just keep going north for three hours.
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Not really science news, but don't want to start a new thread on it, and this is as close a place as any.

Richard Carrier is having a debate on the existence of God in Calgary, and the next day will be speaking about the historicity of Jesus:

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2...n-calgary.html

The stuff he's written is pretty good, I won't be in town AGAIN (I missed Phil Plait too), someone else might like to go though.
What's the big deal if God does exist?
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Depends on how you define God I guess.
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Depends on how you define God I guess.
Whatever definition that makes you to want Him to not exist?
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Whatever definition that makes you to want Him to not exist?
Basing a definition on the desired (or not desired) outcome isn't really the right way to approach things. A definition must be proposed and agreed upon before it can be evaluated.
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My dad sent me this link and I thought it was super cool:

http://www.flixxy.com/water-drop.htm
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