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Usually you can't see that great color if you were to look at nebula with the naked eye through a powerful telescope. The colors are too faint for that, you mostly see white and shades of gray. You can see the Orion Nebula with the naked eye...it looks like a fuzzy area near one of the three stars that make up his belt. With binoculars (at least decent ones) it become more clearly a cloud-like formation, and you can see a lot more of the stars that are in the area as well. I used to know more about the location of things, but without use, knowledge fades. I'd love to have a 16" deep space telescope with on-board computer go-to drive. But those are quite expensive. Even an 8" scope is expensive. I did use both an 8" and 11" Schmidt Cassegrain scope when in Astronomy class in college. I watched one of Jupiter's moons pass over Jupiter one night after class. It was pretty cool. That was with the 11" scope. When I was younger, I viewed Jupiter with a Sears 3" refractor, and could see the color of the bands, faintly. In the mid 60's I used that scope, a sun filter and a Kodak instamatic camera to capture images of a solar eclipse. It was totally low-tech. I just held the camera against the eyepiece, gently. I was surprised by how well the images came out. It was not a total eclipse, at least not in my area, but very near total. I was fortunate that the filter was actually dark and thourough. Mostly, that type of screw-in filter (screwed into the eyepiece) is not considered good eye protection. But I think the glass of the filter was a solid tint, not just a surface tint. I used to use it to look at the sunspots. That was cool. Even at the low magnification that scope gave (I did use a barlow lens that really made it big, more than filling the view), I could see the effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the sun...it would drift out of position slowly. Same for the moon when I viewed that. Alas, that scope went into disrepair.
Dana
Low tech is what the greats used :) I have a friend with a big telescope and he showed me mountains on the moon once, they were wondrous strange and breathtakingly unforgettable. We live in the heart of a big city, ironically just around the corner from an old Observatory, so only get to see a few stars occasionally cos of the traffic haze :)
Complaint: being eaten alive by a bunch of very small ants. Let the biowars begin :lol:
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/MOO/moo.html
This guy's (several) articles on Master Of Orion compelled me to buy a copy. Installed it and will give it a spin later e3e
@All the star stuff.... Gah. A few years ago I would be all over that stuff and saving the text for later, now? I just have to read it once and hope I can remember it ^^; Sort of lost the ability to absorb all that information :P Is still fascinating to me, but I can no longer hold an intelligent conversation about it all without spouting completely incorrect information or forgetting large amounts of things or (Worst of all) mixing and matching stuff I remember and then posting something completely off-topic XD
*sighs* I also know a few people IRL that believe funneling cash into all this astronomy and physics research is a waste and we should be doing "more important stuff" with it. *rolls eyes*
...hey, that fourth one sort of looks like our local village idiot on ice back during the Lillehammer Olympics
...used to work at the rink where she practised.
...so much talent, so little brain.
My favorite is the first one. I imagine many women would like to pile-drive their SO like that at times. :lol:
On the contemplation of the vastness of the Universe:
From Animal House
Pinto: Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. [Jennings nods] This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--
Professor Jennings: Could be one little tiny universe.
The moon and the whole sky reflected in a dew-drop on a blade of grass
Battleship is on TV, great soundtrack :)
Rezca: Master of Orion, specifically Master of Orion 2, freakin' ROCKS. My favorite desktop game.
Speaking of asteroids, an asteroid (couple of yards across, estimated weight in ten thousand or so) completely unrelated to today's flyby has crashed in Russia, caused damage to buildings and people.
http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/
http://news.yahoo.com/possible-meteor-shower-reported-eastern-russia-052833588.html
:gulp: :ahhh:
Mayan calendar off by a couple of months?
@Skiriki
X-post. :)
Seems interesting so far from what I have been reading o3o
Unfortunately Sulla (The author/owner of the website I linked to.) only has some documentation and playthroughs of the first game and not the second =/
I really like his site - plenty of entertaining stuff ^^
By far his largest section is the Civilization IV category (with plenty of interesting stuff!) and the CivIII category, but I was suprisied to see some Diablo 2 there as well.
I personally think the guy is nuts, since he's constantly playing "variant" games to make stuff even more difficult while doing so on an already tough difficulty. Liiike his Diablo 2 druid where he's never allowed to attack or cast offensive magic - only summon - and can never Save-and-reload to fight bosses again for extra lootz (While on Hardcore mode oO )
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/civ4_epic1_1.html Is my favorite of his CivIV articles ^_^
Especially on page 3 when he brings up the "You have chosen unwisely" rule of that particular variant (Some "Honorable" variant which majorly limits some of the common actions one does. No razing cities (Even barbarian ones) no declaring war (But if someone "chooses unwisely" and declares war on you, then you can go nuts on them :P ) and you can never train privateers, use spies, or adopt Police State/Theocracy/Vassalage - even during war!)
If you need any tips regarding MoO2, just ask. I've played that game... gah... ever since it came to the market as new. Oh dear. Quite a long while, then.
I probably won't start on v2 until I get the hang of v1, and even then... I learn things pretty quick so any questions I do have will be exploring the finer points of the game o3o
Most likely anyway ^_^;
*meeps* Haha, well here's one thing I'd like to ask.
Was reading over his first game on Impossible difficulty (He won by the way), and read this little bit:
"The Stack-of-Doom is on its way back here from unmercifully pounding some poor planet. (The colony ships in this fleet are only warp 1 and thus are thankfully limiting the damage it can do with long transit times.) Now for the uber-bad news: look closely at that screenshot again. The Darloks had been piling up several thousand of their Spider bombers; they were at 4000 or so when they moved out against the Humans. Well, something screwy obviously happened on that trip, because by the time they came back they had the 32000 you see above. o_O
Negative Fleet Bug alert! And I get to enjoy it during my first game ever of Impossible, lovely. Blessed to live in interesting times indeed. I've heard a lot of talk about this bug from others, but no concrete strategy for how to deal with it. Umm... for the moment, I just kept on stacking up bases and hoped that one of the other races would look like a more appealing target. Break out the four-leaf clovers, because I'm going to need some luck."
So my question is... How often does this bug happen? The magically increasing armies thing? o3o
Well you know Murphy's law If you are short everything except enemy, you're in combat. :)
Seems cooler at midnight tonight, maybe wishful thinking because nothing at all is stirring except a couple of cicadas. Eta 3000 posts, where did it all go wrong? :lol:
Yeah, this. The older MoO has some glitches (and MoO2 has its own, some quite funny), so... that's about it. Bugs happen.
Hmmm, Murphy’s law, I received such a hartwarming compliment 2 days ago.
This girl, who's been a boy and girl at the same time, who has been raised as a girl, till she found out she also was a boy, till an operation turned him/her in a her, which left her with the opinion that boys are stupid and unbearably ugly, decided that she only liked girls, and became an aggressive lesbian, met me around 15 years ago, and instantly fell in love with me and told that I was the first beautiful guy she ever met, so by now she has become bisexual, and explained to me the opposite from Murphy’s law, Marcus law (Marcus is my first name, Salvatore my second), anything good that can happen, will happen,, I felt appropriately flattered. :lol:
Surely the traffic won't be travelling too fast on ice? *hugs*
They did swervies around me.
It was only a few blocks, i just sorta squinted my eyes and pretended i couldn't see them.
survived a round trip. phshooo
Those all look rather painful! The second one looks like she can fly and he's the rudder...look at the way he's grasping his pants, like pulling them upward like that will lift them out of the dive! :shut:
Dana
i cantz remember which book exacally it was in,
but to fly, it says to throw yourself at the ground and forget to hit it. :roll:
It's young... it'll grow into it's blackness, a bit like a baby Goth ;-).
LOL :lol:
Yeah, this. The older MoO has some glitches (and MoO2 has its own, some quite funny), so... that's about it. Bugs happen.
is that the "all your base belong to us" game?
Nope, this is a completely different sort of game.
Master of Orion 2
Zero Wing, aka "All Your Base".
Nope, this is a completely different sort of game.
Master of Orion 2
Zero Wing, aka "All Your Base".
oh, Zero Wing! :)
aweeee
i was looking for design ideas for modeling my dream kitchen.
so, googled 'how to build a wet bar' images. wantz lol :wow:
heheh http://www.amazon.com/mon-NJA-Ninjabread-Cookie-Cutters/dp/B0045EQ8VC
i cantz remember which book exacally it was in,
but to fly, it says to throw yourself at the ground and forget to hit it. :roll:
One of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books... where Arthur Dent was trapped by himself on some small unremarkable planet somewhere, and learnt how to fly (by forgetting to hit the ground), and talk to the birds (they had very little interesting to say). This happened somewhere in the first few chapters (`.`)... google would probably tell you which book it was. Or, you could crack open your copy of Hitchhikers and enjoy all over again (^_^).
Well you know Murphy's law If you are short everything except enemy, you're in combat. :)
"Battle plans rarely survive contact with the enemy..." (~_~)h.
I want!