Comments on: AAS #16: Bits and Pieces http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: antimatter | Hot Trends http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63137 antimatter | Hot Trends Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:32:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63137 [...] AAS 16: Bits and Pieces [...] [...] AAS 16: Bits and Pieces [...]

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63135 Gary Ansorge Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:56:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63135 UUUUMMMM! Anti-matter. Just what a hungry civilization needs. Now, we really need to figure out how it's done. IS it at all efficient? Could we possibly replicate the process, perhaps using the sun as a driving energy source? I note, in SG-1, they never give any idea how the Ancients charged up their super compact power sources. I wonder if in some distant time, we might learn how to "expand" A Parallel space/time, from quantum size, to a space/time bubble capable of retaining energy sufficient to blow up a solar system,,, Could use the infalling mass around a large black to power the sucker,,, Ah, SCiFi, what a great genre,,, GAry 7 UUUUMMMM! Anti-matter. Just what a hungry civilization needs.

Now, we really need to figure out how it’s done. IS it at all efficient? Could we possibly replicate the process, perhaps using the sun as a driving energy source?

I note, in SG-1, they never give any idea how the Ancients charged up their super compact power sources. I wonder if in some distant time, we might learn how to “expand” A Parallel space/time, from quantum size, to a space/time bubble capable of retaining energy sufficient to blow up a solar system,,,
Could use the infalling mass around a large black to power the sucker,,,

Ah, SCiFi, what a great genre,,,

GAry 7

]]> By: blizno http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63136 blizno Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:10:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63136 I am, no...was...a lazy-eye freak who never, ever had a moment of binocular vision in his entire life until going under the knife a couple years ago at age 50, to have one of my eyeballs "rotated", then months and months of therapy to teach my brain how to recognize and interpret the signals from two eyeballs working together for the first time in my entire life. I really appreciate #1. Parallax is great stuff, I kid not. I have depth perception for the first time...ever. I love it! I love seeing the world in 3-D! Looking through our global eyeball on one side of our orbit around our sun and then comparing that image with what we see on the opposite side of our orbit is binocular vision times many, many, many orders of magnitude. Mondo-cool! I am, no…was…a lazy-eye freak who never, ever had a moment of binocular vision in his entire life until going under the knife a couple years ago at age 50, to have one of my eyeballs “rotated”, then months and months of therapy to teach my brain how to recognize and interpret the signals from two eyeballs working together for the first time in my entire life.
I really appreciate #1. Parallax is great stuff, I kid not. I have depth
perception for the first time…ever. I love it! I love seeing the world in 3-D!
Looking through our global eyeball on one side of our orbit around our sun and then comparing that image with what we see on the opposite side of our orbit is binocular vision times many, many, many orders of magnitude.
Mondo-cool!

]]> By: MandyDax http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63134 MandyDax Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:55:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63134 Ryan, don't you mean B.Eh? I've known that VLBI works with radio telescopes, but how far up the EM spectrum can it be useful? It's akin to stereoscopic telescopes, but on much longer wavelengths, allowing for the long baselines, right? Ryan, don’t you mean B.Eh?

I’ve known that VLBI works with radio telescopes, but how far up the EM spectrum can it be useful? It’s akin to stereoscopic telescopes, but on much longer wavelengths, allowing for the long baselines, right?

]]> By: ohiobuckeye http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63133 ohiobuckeye Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:20:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63133 Antimatter jets from matter blackholes? Are we seeing the divide? Are there new, unfound laws, between matter and anyimatter, and the phisicics seperating the two? Could energy vs anti-energy/dark energyy, driving the universe expansion. Opposite polar forces? Mirrors. E=MC2=-_-E=MC2, -THE DIFFERENTAL OF MATTER VS CREATION of Antimatter and Dark energy. Could our view of the trees that make up the forst, be not quite the whole picture? JMHO (just my humble opinion) on my veiew of the trees, that make up the forest, from my viewpoint). Antimatter jets from matter blackholes?
Are we seeing the divide?
Are there new, unfound laws, between matter and anyimatter, and the phisicics seperating the two?
Could energy vs anti-energy/dark energyy, driving the universe expansion.
Opposite polar forces?
Mirrors.
E=MC2=-_-E=MC2, -THE DIFFERENTAL OF MATTER VS CREATION of Antimatter and Dark energy.
Could our view of the trees that make up the forst, be not quite the whole picture?
JMHO (just my humble opinion) on my veiew of the trees, that make up the forest, from my viewpoint).

]]> By: Ken B http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63132 Ken B Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:55:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63132 Ticks have gas all the time. They just blame it on the dog, however. Ticks have gas all the time. They just blame it on the dog, however.

]]> By: Ryan Jensen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-63131 Ryan Jensen Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:34:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/01/11/aas-16-bits-and-pieces/#comment-63131 "... blocked by tick gas and dust ..." Did we turn Minnesotan all of a sudden, BA? “… blocked by tick gas and dust …”

Did we turn Minnesotan all of a sudden, BA?

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