30-03-2004 04:09									#1
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I, uh, 'Borrowed' this here lift car for th' new Rec Commons, so ah, carry on

* Makahlua goes back to drinking her Pirate Cafe (coffee + Xenorum, or is it the other way around?)

Oh and check out th' telescope up here! Y'can see the most amazin' things without all that 'atmosphere' in the way!

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	30-03-2004 04:40									#2
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Ach, new I forgot to do something this morning

Oh well, I'll use Maka's nicely furnished new bar

	30-03-2004 04:43									#3
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I was wondering if it was a deliberate attempt to deprive everybody from their daily doses so that they will be powerless and be PWNed.

What lovely stars ...
* Snowflake can't get away from the telescope.

	30-03-2004 04:51									#4
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Finally

A xenobrew for me please, and one for whoever posts next on my tab.

-Jam

	30-03-2004 04:53									#5
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Great new Rec Commons thread title.
So what lovely star systems are we watching through the telescope?

	30-03-2004 06:43									#6
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quote: In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp resolution captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view. This picture nicely illustrates the entire stellar life cycle of stars, starting with the Bok globules and giant gaseous pillars (evidence of embryonic stars), followed by circumstellar disks around young stars, and progressing to aging, massive stars in a young starburst cluster. The blue super-giant with its ring and bipolar outflow (upper left of center) marks the end of the life cycle.

Hubblesite.org rocks

	30-03-2004 07:19									#7
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drugs....or whoever does it...Update the drunkest list! I think i've finally passed that scoundrel Maniac

	30-03-2004 07:34									#8
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A bourbon and coke, thanks!
And put it on Jamski's tab - I take his offer to really mean "and one for whenever Skanky posts next on my tab."

	30-03-2004 12:43									#9
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I did actually. Maniac can buy his own drinks, as he's so rich

* Jamski gets Skanky a W&C *

Anyone watch the Spartans vs Beleivers rugby match on Holovision last night?

-Jam

	30-03-2004 13:00									#10
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not fair, opening a new bar in my absence

Well, since I'm here now, I will enjoy the view of 'double' star systems after a good xenorum

	30-03-2004 13:01									#11
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Funny, innit? The main forum used to be dead, now it's more active than the subforums seem to be.

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*saunders in*

....

*sits down at furthest table by the corner in shadows*

	30-03-2004 13:37									#13
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we need more views for the spirit, some another beautiful nebulae would do.

	30-03-2004 14:38									#14
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quote: Funny, innit? The main forum used to be dead, now it's more active than the subforums seem to be.

I have no idea, I can't see the subforums, but as there's nothing really left to discuss, I imagine, with the Drone's victory so imminent, I'm not surprised.

-Jam

	30-03-2004 14:48									#15
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Why so eager to join CyCon anyway then? If it is indeed almost over.

If it is for reading CyCon threads, I was under the impression that those will be opened for anyone after this game is finished?

	30-03-2004 15:00									#16
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While the game is on in any capacity, people can still want to be involved in it.

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* Makahlua twirls the telescope around looking for another nice view

Oh! Now that's a right picture there - take a look at this :

quote: This image resembling Vincent van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is Hubble's latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). This Hubble image was obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on February 8, 2004. The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light two years ago. V838 Mon is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, placing the star at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy.

	30-03-2004 15:17									#18
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Hey Makahlua, post a few of other galaxies. The Sombrero or Andromeda galaxie are beauties as well.

This one I haven't seen yet. The clouds look like 2 dragons with an uptight bending tale joining in the tip.

	30-03-2004 15:36									#19
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* Makahlua twirls the telescope about again

Here's that Sombrero :

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	30-03-2004 15:39									#20
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* Makahlua fiddles with the controls a bit

And th' Andromeda - I got t' tell ye, this is one nice telescope!

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	30-03-2004 16:22									#21
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* GeoModder pours another xenorum while enjoying the scenery and starts making a list for other marvelous views.

	30-03-2004 18:02									#22
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What are all these places? Do they rotate around the Eath too like the sun does?

-Jam

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quote: Originally posted by Jamski What are all these places? Do they rotate around the Eath too like the sun does? -Jam

I believe they just only escape from us. Last one appears even framed... it's of course CyCon's doing...

	30-03-2004 19:41									#24
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Hercules visits the Rec. Com and views the night sky throughthe Hubble.

Hmm interesting feature.

These supernovae belong to a class called Type Ia, which are considered reliable distance indicators. Looking at great distances also means looking back in time
because of the finite velocity of light. SN 1997ck exploded when the universe was half its present age. It is the most distant supernova ever discovered (at a
redshift of 0.97), erupting 7.7 billion years ago.
SN 1997ck is in the constellation Hercules,

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	30-03-2004 19:42									#25
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Hercules visits the Rec. Com and views the night sky throughthe Hubble.

Hmm another interesting feature.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b, the
diminutive star (right of center) is ten times less massive than the Sun and 60,000 times fainter. (If it were as far away as the Sun, it would be only eight times
brighter than the full Moon).

Located 25 light-years away in the constellation Hercules, Gl623b is the smaller component of a double star system, where the separation between the two
members is only twice the distance between Earth and the Sun (approximately 200 million miles). The small star completes one orbit about its larger companion
every four years.


If you look very closely and long enough you can just about discern a Planet Delta Centauri

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	30-03-2004 19:45									#26
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Hmm, I must have drunk too much. I'm starting to see posts double.

	30-03-2004 19:46									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski What are all these places? Do they rotate around the Earth too like the sun does?

Well, it depends what worldview you follow, Jam.

If your worldview is geocentrisch, then you're right.

But out of your answer, I suppose you haven't even noticed that their is a heliocentrisch worldview. In that view your presumption is also in error.

But even that doesn't come close to what these days is considered the 'thruth' in astronomical circles.

There is a slightly more chance that our galaxie rotates around the Andromeda galaxie since that one has more mass, but in general they are likely to hit eachother in another 10 billion years or so.

For the Sombrero galaxie, that one is fairly far off, and belongs to another 'cluster' of galaxies. The Andromeda galaxie an ours belong to the same cluster, logically named the 'Local Cluster'.

Does this answer your question a bit?

	30-03-2004 19:49									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Maniac Hmm, I must have drunk too much. I'm starting to see posts double.

Nah, the first one isn't visible to me. I think a new interstellar phenomene, called the Red Cross Nebula blinked into existence while uploading. Or else a gamma burst has mixed up the bits a bit.

	30-03-2004 20:29									#29
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quote: Does this answer your question a bit?

I get it. So a galaxy is like the moon, but smaller, and lighter, but we can't see them because we don't have a telescope, but they are fixed to the dome of the sky anyway?

-Jam

	30-03-2004 20:33									#30
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The universe revolves around me!