OK, here we go again....only 14999 more to go.

Happy 15000th anniversary, LTE!

:D

Hurray for us!

If peanut butter
could become an animal
it might become us.

Help! The Almond Joy ditty is stuck in my head.

15007...Bond...James Bond

What happened to Mrs Moneypenny?

She was shaken, not stirred.

I believe she is spent.

But not banged...that was reserved for another one of Ian Fleming's famous books, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Bang bang you're dead. Brush your teeth and go to bed.

WTF?

Talk about longest flower...this one is 98 light years long (top to bottom in this picture)

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...bleN44Frot.jpg

To make my post even approach "longest", here are some facts about this flower:

In this unusual image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode -- a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation from a hot young star. Real geodes are baseball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volcanic or sedimentary rock. Only when these inconspicuous round rocks are split in half by a geologist, do we get a chance to appreciate the inside of the rock cavity that is lined with crystals. In the case of Hubble's 35 light-year diameter "celestial geode" the transparency of its bubble-like cavity of interstellar gas and dust reveals the treasures of its interior.

Q & A: Understanding the Discovery
1. How was this cavity in N44F created?
The Large Magellanic Cloud's N44F, is being inflated by a torrent of fast-moving particles (called a "stellar wind") from an exceptionally hot star that was once buried inside a cold dense cloud. The central star in N44F is ejecting more than a 100 million times more mass per second than our Sun. The hurricane of particles moves at about 4 million miles per hour (7 million kilometers per hour). The stellar wind from this star is colliding with an envelope of gas that surrounds the star, pushing the gas out and forming a bubble.

2. Are bubbles around stars unique?
The nebula N44F is one of a handful of known interstellar bubbles. Bubbles like these have been seen around evolved massive stars (Wolf-Rayet stars), and also around clusters of stars (where they are called "super-bubbles"). But they have rarely been viewed around isolated stars, as is the case here.

3. What are the finger-like structures within the bubble around N44F?
The interior wall of its gaseous cavity is lined with several four to eight light-year-high finger-like columns of cool dust and gas. The fingers are created by a blistering ultraviolet radiation from the central star. Like windsocks caught in a gale, they point in the direction of the energy flow.

4. Where is N44F located?
N44F is located about 160,000 light-years in our neighboring dwarf galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the direction of the southern constellation Dorado. N44F is part of the larger N44 complex, which is a large super-bubble, blown out by the combined action of stellar winds and multiple supernova explosions. N44 itself is roughly 1,000 light-years across. Several compact star-forming regions, including N44F, are found along the rim of the central super-bubble.

So where's MOAB?

This is MOAB as viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...canonabike.jpg


...sorry for recycling this pic again, but it fit.

I want to color it in.

Crayola factory tour in Easton, PA...I loved that little tour...and Larry Holmes is a local attraction

http://www.movinon.net/Guess/Mystery61.jpg

Live in this bubble
surronding our minor star:
We must embrace life!

For the longest thread
there's no longer a reason
without the numbers.

15019 where the heck has gone the time ...

The time has gone and gone are the times.

Glad to see you here Eso!

hello everyone.

(As am I)

With nothing prepared
I extemporani-ize,
producing nothing.
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This fleeting moment
cannot possibly last long
without the time.
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This fleeting moment
cannot possibly last long
without the time to.
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This fleeting moment
cannot possibly last too long
without the time to.

Nothing is nothing and every miniscule moment lasts an eternity as the thoughts and perhaps even photons waft through all the universes and are never destroyed...how could they be, who could destroy them?

The sky is full of mechanical birds.

EAA is underway.

have you never seen my display pic?!?!!

MOAB,
not until you just mentioned it...and I like yours better.

I wish you people could see all these lovely little airplanes flying overhead.

Ultralights....vintage ones...sleek new jets...helicopters...

All day long, for two days now they are flying into the Experimental Aircraft Association.

They line up only a few hundred yards apart as they approach final landing,
about 20 miles from where I live...'tis fun.

I love air shows. Is this the big show near Oshkosh?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...bull_helo2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...bull_helo1.jpg

yes

I have family there right now. Oshkosh, that is, for the air show.
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Linky: EAA AirVenture Oshkosh - The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration

I actually made it myself. I was bored so i thought i would do a proper one.

I used to have a full 3d one before...

I think I remember your 3D one...or I'm imagining things again.

So your avatar is obviously looking down from an airplane at the EAA airshow in Oshkosh, b'gosh.

Back to the grind for most... ? Happy Monday.

I am so happy it's Monday!...?

The weekend ending
must produce the beginning
of yet another.

Sometimes I change my schedule so my week starts on Wednesday...so this way my mid-week break (Sat. and Sun.) is the highlight of my week. It's sort of like eating some cake, then the frosting, then the rest of the cake.

The cake is a lie.

is this long enough?

one five zero thirty nine

what planet is this?

Jupiter.