Throw in the global recession and you have a trifecta of reasons for cheap oil.

For any Steelers fan calling out Burfict as a dirty player, you can bet if he was a Steeler you’d be applauding his toughness and telling everyone else to “man up” and stop whining. Steelers players have repeatedly over the years made dirty hits on Bengals players (Palmers knee, Hines Ward breaking Keith Rivers’ jaw,…

Not to mention if you watch the replay, there was never any actual contact with his head and the defender used his shoulder, which is what they are taught to do.

I guess he was supposed to two hand touch him down at that point.

Already done. Juno will be there in July 2016. It’s going to be epic.

I put my library on an external SSD and it’s super fast now. Of course regular backups are a good idea with this route.

Pretty sure it was satire when he used “light years” as a unit of time instead of distance.

The Hubble mirror was so smooth that blown up to the size of the Gulf of Mexico, the variance was around 1mm.

Great article about it if you have the time:

I love that they did this. I have been contemplating how difficult it would be to do this for a while, and what scale you could get away with and still make it effective. Our astronomy group does many solar system walks during nature events, but there arent scale models of the planets displayed, so it loses some of…

I didn’t read anything before looking at this picture and my initial thought was “wow that frying pan looks just like Io.”

I’m going to challenge myself to use the phrase “gelatinous meat-like pancake” in a sentence at work tomorrow.

The Hubble issue was due to manufacturing issues not design issues. In fact if you want to read a really great article about the manufacture of Hubble’s mirror, I encourage you to read this (linked below). I read it back in the early 90s and then again this year and it’s just as fascinating now as it was then.

How is this possible? Last year the wingnuts in the US said we would all be dead from this by now. Thanks Obama!

So, you’re referring to the ONE post at the start?

I use them at public stargazes all the time. They are super valuable for pointing out specific objects.

When I read articles like this, I think, great, they are going to ban these because of a few idiots.

Ok, I’ll bite. If the IAU is not the final authority, then who is?

And FWIW, a lot of people know what’s out there. Not all of it. But if you’re going to say Pluto is a planet, then sorry son, there’s not just 9.

Did you just copy paste that from Wikipedia or some other site? I was doing research on this topic all weekend and the wording of that sounds awfully familiar.

“I don’t disagree with you. The IAU does.”

Adams and Le Verrier’s calculations were dismissed by the Greenwich Observatory. When Leverrier sent his calculations to Galle in Berlin, he found Neptune in an hour and within 1 degree of where LeVerrier said it would be.

Math FTW!

Stacking images for detail and clarity is very common (pretty much everyone does it) in astrophotography. That doesn’t take anything away from the planning and skill it takes to capture a photograph such as this.

We’ll see what happens when the James Webb gets up there.