1 posted on
12/07/2011 3:29:25 PM PST by
decimon
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To: SunkenCiv
Seeing is believing ping.
2 posted on
12/07/2011 3:30:34 PM PST by
decimon
To: decimon
Geez. Everybody wants to copy the History Channel.
3 posted on
12/07/2011 3:31:18 PM PST by
Venturer
To: decimon
![](http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/7/71/DSI_hdapproach.jpg)
That's no moon.....
4 posted on
12/07/2011 3:31:51 PM PST by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: decimon
To: decimon
Romulan warbird on main viewer...
6 posted on
12/07/2011 3:33:02 PM PST by
RitchieAprile
(Beck is on a tear again..)
To: decimon
hummm... crispy baked alpha centurions
7 posted on
12/07/2011 3:37:04 PM PST by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: decimon
8 posted on
12/07/2011 3:37:28 PM PST by
LaybackLenny
(All hail Her Royal Highness Sarah, Queen of The Hobbits)
To: decimon
10 posted on
12/07/2011 3:38:15 PM PST by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
To: decimon
They said Pluto is not a planet because of it’s size. Mercury is a small planet. Compared to Mercury the object is much smaller. So that small object isn’t anywhere near the size of Pluto.
11 posted on
12/07/2011 3:38:38 PM PST by
ThomasThomas
( If you can't laugh at your self, I will for you.)
To: decimon
12 posted on
12/07/2011 3:38:38 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
To: decimon
13 posted on
12/07/2011 3:42:46 PM PST by
MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: decimon
Attention, Mr. Fwank white phone Uranus is calling! I know that this has nothing to do with the post, but just had to get the U word out there!
To: decimon
Have to admit the sideshow link to yahoo left me fascinated.
15 posted on
12/07/2011 3:44:42 PM PST by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: decimon
Explanation from the Naval Research Lab:
Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake, "where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path: To make the relatively faint glow of a coronal mass ejection stand out against the bright glare of spacecaused by interplanetary dust and the stellar/galactic backgroundthe NRL scientists must remove as much background light as possible. They explained that they determine what light is background light, and thus can be subtracted out, by calculating the average amount of light that entered each camera pixel on the day of the CME event and on the previous day. Light appearing in the pixels on both days is considered to be background light and is removed from the footage of the CME. The remaining light is then enhanced.
The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don't move much relative to the sun. But for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury's staus as the closest planet to the sun.
"When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image," Rich explained in an email.
17 posted on
12/07/2011 3:46:21 PM PST by
Jeff Head
(Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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19 posted on
12/07/2011 3:47:41 PM PST by
Las Vegas Dave
(The DemocRATic party preys on the ignorant!)
To: decimon
Please come and take your pre-sent resident back to wherever he came from.
20 posted on
12/07/2011 3:47:57 PM PST by
TribalPrincess2U
(WE ARE AMERICA! Vote Economic Freedom. Vote third party— we keep 0Mao. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT?)
To: decimon
24 posted on
12/07/2011 3:53:53 PM PST by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: decimon
Nothing to worry about until it starts circling Uranus.
28 posted on
12/07/2011 4:00:39 PM PST by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: decimon
Cool!
They are out there.
well, something is..
29 posted on
12/07/2011 4:00:39 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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