Star Talk ☆ Let's Hang - All Are Welcome!!

[npixelz]

Are they still seeking out new life and new civilizations, and boldly going where no-one has gone before?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

nice.

Maybe meteor shower tonight ... 1 am ET or 10 PM PT

[+] SPOILER

"NASA said if all goes well, the best time to view the meteor shower will be around 1 a.m. ET Tuesday or 10 p.m. PT Monday.

“This is going to be an all-or-nothing event,” Bill Cooke said, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.

[npixelz]

If only I could actually watch these things, but sadly I need money so I gotta work

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Maybe on your breaks since you are up so late at night???

[npixelz]

Then I'd have to go outside
*shudders at the thought*

Also I always forget

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Look out the window? That's what I do.

[npixelz]

I could look out the break room window on second break, but that's also when I'm eating lunch

[Lemon Cheesecake]

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[npixelz]

For everything you gain, you lose something else

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I went into work early today and the moon was up! So pretty with the blue morning sky.

[npixelz]

Hooray

[Bassy]

I love it when you see the moon and looks big and you can see the gray spots of the moon. I could sit outside and just stare at it.

[npixelz]

The moon is great

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I like to look at the moon & think that where ever we are those we love are looking at the same moon.

I also like thinking about the fact that everyone through history who could see looked at that same moon ... its almost like time travelling a fraction of time where we all have looked on the same moon... King's, Pharaoh's, pioneers who used it for light at night, prehistoric people ... everyone at some point <unless you were blind> has gazed at the same moon.

The moon's surface may have changed slightly with asteroids hitting it but the same face of it has been shining on us.

I wish there would be a way, in my lifetime, for us moon gazers to be able to get to the moon without the hassle of the g-forces etc. I don't think that will happen. One day maybe down the road if China ever builds their giant space elevator.

[galled]

Ah, that's such a romantic thought!

Something that we never really think about is how the moon has saved us untold number of times by intercepting inbound things that would have stuck the earth's surface. That's why the far side of the moon has so many more craters on it. It's quite remarkable how different it is--like it's a different satellite.