By: Mark
An astronaut friend of mine who flew with Story Musgrave said that Story could recognize most oceans and bodies of water by their _color_ and hue.
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Imagine waking up, looking outside your window, and having no clue at all even what part of the Earth you’re seeing! I’ve had mornings like that.
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Before the internetz, you couldn’t just upload a random picture of the sky and have it automatically identified and annotated, even if it was mirrored, scratched and vignetted, as astrometry.net now...
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One of the necessary skills for an airplane pilot is the ability to match up what you see out the window to the map. The effect is basically the same, looking at the ground from an airplane at 6,000...
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I think another lesson after having tried Google Earth and seeing that numerous people in the thread beat me to it is that when you have a pool of educated followers cloud sourcing them can produce...
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If you like differential equations check out this video. It’s a prototype of an interface on an iPad that allows you to directly manipulate parameters and coefficients to generate plots. Very cool. In...
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I have a genuine astronomy question. I understand that one of the techniques to detect exoplanets is to measure the delta in luminescence of a star that occurs when a planet transits in front of it. Is...
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Caleb Jones: Disclaimer: I haven’t checked any of this to see if its reasonable! My guess is, you would need the precise mass and size of the host star and the precise period of brightness change to...
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