Comments on: Weekend spaciness

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:11:24 +0000

To all those who have complimented me on providing links to those pictures of Phobos: You’re welcome! Click on my name yet again for a stereo picture (red/blue 3D glasses required) of Phobos, and click on that picture to “embiggen” it.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:32:26 +0000

What’s even fiunnier about #4
Google Spock and (6,66)0,00 matches come up.
Cool pic of phobos Ivan

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:52:39 +0000

I usually get the “Did you mean…” question when I misspell something.

BTW, BA, I answered B) on the the skepchick quiz:)

By: firemancarl

firemancarl — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:15:48 +0000

Wow, that was damn funny! Khan!!!

By: Frank Palazzolo

Frank Palazzolo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:48:48 +0000

If you liked #4, I direct you to http://www.khaaan.com/

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:18:40 +0000

Ah, Phobos, all loose rock and gravel. Now, there’s a ready source of raw material. Just scoop it up, melt and mold,,,into nearly any kind of construct.

I think remotely operated ‘bots from an outpost on Phobos would be a much more rational approach to a Mars expedition. Build radiation proof huts on Phobos with lots of solar power available and you could take all the time you want to explore the surface. Much easier than dealing with all that wind and dust on the martian surface. Same idea applies for mining the moon for material to build Solar power sats. With two construction modules, tethered together one kilometer apart and rotating about their common center, we could have sufficient G force to prevent physical decline. What I don’t have is the distance for a lunar stationary site. It has to be close enough to enable rapid feedback from the ‘bots. At any rate, a construction shack in orbit eliminates the problem with lunar dust.

Ah, well, just some random thoughts.

GAry 7

By: MichaelL

MichaelL — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:10:56 +0000

HA! I, also had to Google ‘Spock’

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:00:07 +0000

The video for the search for Spock was funny…dumb…but original and funny.

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:55:56 +0000

@Ivan3man:
Cool animation & photo! Keep ‘em coming!
Rich

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:37:03 +0000

The MESSENGER image of the “odd-looking, relatively fresh crater with prominent dark rays” is very interesting and the dark rays from it are prominent but what is the bright stuff within the crater? Possibly a newer crater (relatively speaking) with newly exposed Mercury soil?

By: PG

PG — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:35:18 +0000

The second #4 is not dumb. It is, in fact, awesome.

By: CanadianLeigh

CanadianLeigh — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:17:56 +0000

Thanks Ivan3Man, those links were awsome to see. That little fear monger is going to get his in 100 million years or so.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:37:55 +0000

If anybody can be bothered to do so, click on my name again for a large colour picture of Phobos.

By: Neb

Neb — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:07:04 +0000

Am I the only one who wants to point out that Spirit is a dot in that image? I mean after that previous post and looking at the image I see about 3 other dots there that are the right size.

By: Bert Chadick

Bert Chadick — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:54:20 +0000

OMG! There’s a giant yellow arrow on Mars!

By: Salad Is Slaughter

Salad Is Slaughter — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:38:24 +0000

Of course I had to immediately google “spock” to see what came up…

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:25:53 +0000

Click on my name for a 3D animation of Phobos, courtesy of ESA Multimedia Gallery.

By: shane

shane — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:11:13 +0000

Well of course Phobos is lighter. It’s hollow. They’re waiting. Inside.

BTW, Phobos-Grunt. What a cool mission. Interesting name.

By: madge

madge — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:11:07 +0000

number four made me think of those Google knickers with “G spot” in the search field and “I feel lucky” underneath. (Sorry we return you to your scheduled programming.)