| Forum Index > General Forum |
|
rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
Great for news on the most recent findings/missions/projects related to astronomy. Such as--- Feb 1st/2012 : NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-031 ![[image loading]](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/grail/20120201/grail20120201-640.jpg) Jan 25th/2012 : Photo from NASA Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-025 ![[image loading]](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mro/20120125/pia15283-640.jpg) (This enhanced-color image shows sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars) Just to name a few. Space Rules! | ||
|
Rassy
Netherlands2308 Posts
Wow that 2nd vid is so awesome,i keep looking at it. Completely agree, space is the most awesome thing on earth and been a hobby for me for a long time http://powersof10.com/film This is another nice classic vid showing how big the universe is. Not sure how to implement it on the site here so hope just giving the link is ok. | ||
|
Meta
United States6225 Posts
 ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/8pXfy.jpg) My current desktop background, google search eta carina nebula for more info | ||
|
PanzerPony
85 Posts
Btw, can't believe you put Star Lancer in the list of space games, but forgot the best PC game ever: FreeSpace 2 (well, maybe second-best  ) | ||
|
namste
Finland2292 Posts
http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html If you press the "I" button for info, it'll show you all the constellations and info about the stars and nebulae. Holy crap how insignificant we are.... | ||
TheEmulator
28100 Posts
I like the concept that the further you look in space the further back in time you see. For example, the vision of the andromeda galaxy we can see with our naked eye is what it looked like 1 million years ago, because it takes 1 million years for the light to come to us. | ||
|
namste
Finland2292 Posts
| ||
|
PolskaGora
United States547 Posts
 ). Last summer I went to Utah for the amateur astronomy festival, the sights of the universe were breathtaking. My love for the universe started when I was 3 years old, one of my first memories was of a warm summer night in the Polish countryside in 1997, the year of the comet Hale-Bopp. My young mind couldn't wrap around the concept of the vastness of the universe and the awesome sight of the comet and so my imagination filled in all the gaps for me. Since that day I've always wanted to do something space-related. I would have loved to major in astronomy but when I thought about it, the job market simply wasn't there, who's need to hire astronomers? So instead I went for astronautical engineering, so that I could also integrate my creativity into my work. Plus what's cooler than directly working with the fucking probes that go into space? Nothing, save for being an astronaut. In any case, great job with this thread, it's really well structured, and I look forward to posting in here in the future!Also I should add that the biggest factor in me picking up Starcraft to begin with was the name.  | ||
|
RetroAspect
Belgium219 Posts
| ||
|
ToT)OjKa(
Korea (South)2437 Posts
On February 04 2012 09:03 Meta wrote: I love this thread! Great idea! My current desktop background, google search eta carina nebula for more info Was this the image that was like 200MB? I sure as hell remember that image...my goodness it's amazing looks like my weekend is going to be dedicated to checking out all this stuff. Maybe I'll squeeze so much in that I'll remember it. I understand Retro it's just...it's just so unbelievably phenomenal that I just can't express it without going a bit crazy. I mean it's so easy to just not look, wonder or even observe the cosmos that when you actually just stop and see something like a mad image or documentary, I'm just like holy fuck dude... | ||
|
Flamingo777
United States1190 Posts
| ||
|
namste
Finland2292 Posts
On February 04 2012 09:23 Flamingo777 wrote: I heard we just recently had a really weird sunspot cycle, and maybe something weird is going to happen? I know that's really vague, but that's just the extent of an unreliable source I heard from, but can anyone confirm if there are things going on with the sun right now that are out of the ordinary?. It's really nothing out of the ordinary, it's just the Sun is currently going into it's maximum in it's solar cycle. Our Sun works in cycles, there are low and high activity phases that increase the amount and size of the solar winds. But the whole "something weird is going to happen" -thing is mostly because of the 2012 Apocalypse Mayan calendar -mumbojumbo. Here's an article by Nasa about the solar weather, some predictions and forecasts. http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml | ||
|
Coriolis
United States1152 Posts
Freespace: The Great War Freespace 2 (imo this ones way better and has modability at hard-light.net) X3:Reunion X3:Terran Conflict X3: Albion Prelude (last two are just expansions but they're standalone. X Superbox has all the X games, X1, X2 etc) Galactic Civilizations 2 (4x game, kind've the spiritual successor to master of orion) | ||
|
peekn
United States1152 Posts
I'm curious to see where this thread is going to, hope that it doesn't turn into a dumb religion bashing thread... >.> | ||
|
ODKStevez
Ireland1225 Posts
www.eve-online.com A great space mmo! ^_^ | ||
|
namste
Finland2292 Posts
On February 04 2012 09:40 ODKStevez wrote: This is my thread! Love the unknown of space! It amazes me! For a bit of input, www.eve-online.com A great space mmo! ^_^ It was already in the OP, but well now it's at least said out loud properly. Truly an amazing game, just really really time-taking! | ||
|
Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
I made a thread of it here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=297671 | ||
|
braebot
Canada64 Posts
On February 04 2012 05:31 ToT)OjKa( wrote: Q. What's the coolest thing on Earth?! A. SPACE! me being a troll here, but space isn't on earth huahuahua | ||
|
Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
| ||
|
Swiftx
25 Posts
| ||
| ||
StarCraft 2 StarCraft: Brood War Calm Dota 2 4310Bisu  2188Jaedong 2046Soma 1030Shuttle 766ZerO 735Larva 622Snow 532EffOrt 517ggaemo 447[ Show more ] Counter-Strike Other Games Grubby1889 hiko816 B2W.Neo650 FrodaN570 ArmadaUGS118 XaKoH  108QueenE90 KnowMe88 Mew2King51 Trikslyr32 ZerO(Twitch)19 |
|
PiGosaur Cup
Replay Cast
Kung Fu Cup
Replay Cast
The PondCast
CranKy Ducklings
WardiTV Team League
Replay Cast
CranKy Ducklings
WardiTV Team League
[ Show More ] |
|
|
EPT
