Death Star At Saturn |
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Dec 29 2005, 06:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1596
Okay, the movies aren't loading for me, maybe the rest of you are having better luck. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Dec 29 2005, 06:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
...Just loaded for me... Yep, poor Prometheus (what do it do to Mimas, huh?) gets it.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Dec 30 2005, 01:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
Oh my, what was that noise?!! Ahh right, the sound of a thousand internet NASA conspiracists/anomalists heads exploding.
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Dec 30 2005, 01:06 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I wonder if CICLOPS actually has the right to use the Star Wars theme music? It would be terrible if they were slapped with a restraining order by Lucas and Spielberg
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Dec 30 2005, 01:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (volcanopele @ Dec 29 2005, 06:37 PM) I laughed really hard at that. My fiance thinks I'm nuts. |
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Dec 30 2005, 09:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
Hehe that's cool!
We should begin instantly to build... USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)! That's the right (impossible) job to James T. Kirk and the Crew. Edit: Hey just seen in another forum, that's one of Hoag(y)land's visions: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon4.htm Now it comes clearer that's an allusion to "15x60=900", right! This post has been edited by Tman: Dec 30 2005, 11:05 AM -------------------- |
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Dec 30 2005, 01:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
[quote=volcanopele,Dec 29 2005, 06:37 PM]
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1596 enjoyed that !! now whats the next target |
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Dec 30 2005, 02:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
QUOTE (Tman @ Dec 30 2005, 04:07 AM) ey just seen in another forum, that's one of Hoag(y)land's visions: http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon4.htm Now it comes clearer that's an allusion to "15x60=900", right! What is even more amazing to me is that the ancient civilization used degrees and miles for their calculations! Just like Americans! -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Dec 30 2005, 04:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (ilbasso @ Dec 30 2005, 09:06 AM) What is even more amazing to me is that the ancient civilization used degrees and miles for their calculations! Just like Americans! They all speak American English, too - it's the truly Universal Language. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/lingua-franca.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 30 2005, 06:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
You should submit that to The Force.NET fan films... Um, not that I hang out with those people.... they're too geeky for me
PS - volcanopele I couldn't get Safari to load the video on OS 10.4.2 - FireFox works fine though. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Dec 30 2005, 07:30 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
....very good!!!
I suspect that the Empire covets the rich water reserves of Enceladus and the rings, to say nothing of the abundant and highly accessible hydrogen on Titan...we may be seeing a garrison of the entire Saturnian system in progress...(insert more dramatic music here... ) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 31 2005, 01:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 30 2005, 02:06 AM) I wonder if CICLOPS actually has the right to use the Star Wars theme music? It would be terrible if they were slapped with a restraining order by Lucas and Spielberg Emily: No worries. Those guys have certainly *not* had a sense of humour bypass! Bot Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Dec 31 2005, 04:32 AM
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Uh-uh -- given the level of science in the Star Wars movies, all the rebels would have to do is toss a lighted cigarette at Titan and the entire world would go up in flames, along with the Empire garrison.
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Dec 31 2005, 11:56 AM
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Bruce: "...Uh-uh -- given the level of science in the Star Wars movies, all the rebels would have to do is toss a lighted cigarette at Titan and the entire world would go up in flames, along with the Empire garrison."
<grin> I still want to see somebody competent (not Spielberg, who can do Scifi and Skiffy but not science fiction) film Larry Niven's first novel (first known space novel, too) "World of Ptaavs", with a Thrint escaped from a stasis field running amok in the nearish future solar system. The climax has a geochemically layered (layer-cake) Pluto burning when a fusion torch-ship attempting to land or hover penetrates ice layers and lets a methane ice (I think) layer mix with an oxygen snow layer. The planetology and geochemistry is loony, but hey... this was 1966 or so. Yeah.. the ENTIRE world goes up in flames in the story. It's a blast! |
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Dec 31 2005, 11:44 PM
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Nobody will ever accuse Niven of scientific profundity early in his career. Consider "Neutron Star", in which a race of sophisticated star-travelling aliens don't realize that neutron stars must have extremely strong tidal forces close to them (and which inexplicably won a Hugo -- Carl Sagan had a comment on that). Or "Becalmed in Hell", in which Venus is pitch-black beneath its cloud layer (although in that case the greenhouse effect obviously wouldn't work). Still, Niven had no science education when he started writing, so I suppose you can put this down to on-the-job training -- his recent work has been better. But his early popularity among SF fans didn't do much for the genre's literary reputation.
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