Posted on 06/22/2017 6:44:36 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
Sorry for the Vanity, but I was on an Astronomy Ping List and haven't seen any pictures in a good, long while. Is it still active?
I don’t think so. Every time someone ran a thread, people would line up to mock it and make really childish comments...So there ya have it.
The last list of ping lists I have is really, really old. I didn’t see astronomy in the first couple of pages, but if you want to browse, here’s the link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1328605/posts
Thank you.
Anyway, the official site (without FReeper comments) is here:
Astronomy Picture of the Day
How aggravating. I really miss the pictures. IIRC, it was Nachum who posted. Is Nachum still active?
Did a search of the word astronomy.
Seems that the last pic post was back in October.
ThomasMore was the one who posted them.
He hasn’t posted ANYTHING since Feb.
Yes! Thank you! That was it.....will have to add the Picture of the Day to my daily computer visits.
Thank you.
Looks like the guy you were looking for was SunkenCiv.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/apod-chat/index
IIRC SunkenCiv used to post the astronomy pic of the day, but hasn’t in quite a while.
It’s still here, but of course it goes without saying that the universe is rapidly expanding.
It is much harder to see the astronomy ping list these days...
Aw, c’mon. The “pictures of Uranus” joke never gets old. ;-D
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Daily astronomy picture. Archive link is in page info. I use the daily pic for my desktop every day.
“IIRC SunkenCiv used to post the astronomy pic of the day, but hasn’t in quite a while.”
He wasn’t one of the ones who got the zot back during the primary wars was he.
He used to post some very interesting stuff.
Yea, I think he was a Never Trumper. Not sure on that, but the timing was right.
I don’t think SunkenCiv was so much a ‘Never Trumper’, and I think he left on his own.
I miss the GGG threads.
I miss them too. He’s got it running on another server out there. Don’t have the link.
I studied astronomy in school, until the Dean decided I was just taking up space.
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