Dim World, Dark Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Ray Gralak
Posted on 07/08/2010 5:55:47 AM PDT by sig226
Explanation: Dim, distant, dwarf planet Pluto can be hard to spot, especially in recent months as it wanders through the crowded starfields of Sagittarius and the central Milky Way. But fortunately for backyard Pluto hunters, it crossed in front of a dark nebula in early July. The diminutive world is marked with two short lines near the center of this skyscape recorded from New Mexico Skies on July 5. Pluto stands out only because obscuring dark nebula Barnard 92 (B92) blocks the background of the Milky Way's congeries of faint, innumerable stars. Another of astronomer E. E. Barnard's cataloged dark markings on the sky, B93, is easy to pick out just left of B92. Prominent at the lower left is open star cluster NGC 6603. In fact, Pluto, dark nebulae, and star cluster all lie within a portion of M24, also known as the Sagittarius Star Cloud, filling most of the frame.
In honor of the idiot that sees this kind of stuff as useful, I'd like to propose the NASA Mosque competition. Get out your Photoshop, your Macpaint, or even your crayons and construction paper, as long as you can make the administration look bad. The winner will be the one that most insults the current president. First prize is twenty internets.
Can’t be moonbat transport. I see an American flag on it.
The idea of hypersonics for transportation is foolish in my opinion anyway. It just isn’t cost effective when all you’re gaining is speed of travel.
Even star trek style transporters would go largely unused if they cost several thousand dollars to go from NY to Tokyo.
Artist’s rendering. They’ll put a Cuban flag on it before it actually flies.
It’s worse than silly. It’s already been demonstrated that the idea has no merit. It can’t support itself without subsidies. Nobody cares to spend triple the fare to save three hours. Anyone who has that kind of money to spend on international travel is more likely to fly private jet than public. But NASA thinks they should promote this ridiculous idea.
Hey NASA - it already failed, Charlie.
One hour flight, 3 hours of waiting in line for cavity checks.
Looks cool, other than having no windows. :’) Flying across the Pacific (assuming one had the need) in a matter of a couple of hours would cost $5000 or so, unsubsidized.
New York to London was $9850 in 2,000.
round trip ...
This one doesn't look very cost-effective, either. Just a few rows of seats, but lots of plane mass to get moving along. Pretty picture, but not practical for nothing more than passenger transport. I say we go back to windjammers and passenger trains, if THIS is the wave of the passenger-moving future.
Interesting concept, but I cant see how it would work for take off and landing with the cg/center of pressure dynamics of the airframe.
Yep! Oville and Wilbur are ROTFLTFAO! over this NASA Abortion! and Werner Von Braun is crying himself to sleep
over the Abortion NASA has become since his demise!
Dim, distant, dwarf planet Pluto can be hard to spot... it crossed in front of a dark nebula in early July... stands out only because obscuring dark nebula Barnard 92 (B92) blocks the background of the Milky Way's congeries of faint, innumerable stars. Another of astronomer E. E. Barnard's cataloged dark markings on the sky, B93, is easy to pick out just left of B92.Interesting that Barnard's name comes up, he's perhaps best known for his claim that Barnard's Star had a discernable wobble from the orbit of what would have been the first exoplanet (had it been accepted).
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