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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Milky Way over Uluru
NASA ^
| 29 Jul, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Max Inwood
Posted on 07/29/2024 12:29:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's happening above Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in central Australia that rises sharply from nearly flat surroundings. Composed of sandstone, Uluru has slowly formed over the past 300 million years as softer rock eroded away. The Uluru region has been a home to humans for over 22,000 years. Recorded last month, the starry sky above Uluru includes the central band of our Milky Way galaxy, complete with complex dark filaments of dust, bright red emission nebulas, and billions of stars.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
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07/29/2024 12:29:28 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:29:45 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:30:27 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Gee, looks exactly like Ayers Rock.
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:33:53 PM PDT
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Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Moltke
What’s wrong with calling it what the Aboriginal people do?
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:34:38 PM PDT
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Moltke
Gee, looks exactly like Ayers Rock. Well, you are not woke enough!
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:43:36 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: Jamestown1630
What’s wrong with calling it what we call it?
Of course there’s nothing wrong with either, just preference. But the Western names are generally easier to remember.
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:48:19 PM PDT
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Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: MtnClimber
Oh yeah, I suck at woke.
Great picture, btw. Could you add me to the ping list? I often fail to catch the posts.
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:49:52 PM PDT
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Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Jamestown1630
I’m sure Native Americans had a name for the area where I live.
I don’t care.
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:50:23 PM PDT
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SauronOfMordor
(Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
To: Jamestown1630
PS: Why did the aboriginals name it after a Lt. from Star Trek?
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:51:38 PM PDT
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Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: SauronOfMordor
Well, the Aboriginals knew Uluru first, it has significance for them that it doesn’t for the Australians, and they OWN it...again.
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07/29/2024 12:52:45 PM PDT
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Moltke
Gee; you don’t even know the correct name of the bridge communications officer...
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07/29/2024 12:54:41 PM PDT
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Moltke
You have been added to the ping list.
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posted on
07/29/2024 12:56:28 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: Moltke
“PS: Why did the aboriginals name it after a Lt. from Star Trek?”
I guess you missed that time travel episode where the aboriginals were so impressed with her that they named the rock after their best understanding of her name.
To: Moltke
I thought the same thing.
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posted on
07/29/2024 1:31:40 PM PDT
by
russdawg
To: MtnClimber
I’ve always been fascinated by Uluru. If I had a bucket list, visiting Uluru would definitely be on it.
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posted on
07/29/2024 2:00:26 PM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: MtnClimber
Uluru my ass. That’s Ayer’s rock.
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posted on
07/29/2024 5:36:53 PM PDT
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Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: Jamestown1630
Good pick-up on the “Gee” - perhaps a bit less so on the name joke. Uhura and Uluru might be easily confused by people just superficially looking at the names.
Well, if you’re not in a joking mood right now, I’ll leave it at that. 😀
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posted on
07/29/2024 5:48:39 PM PDT
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Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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