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To: lurqer who wrote (26827)	6/12/2003 3:46:58 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 104202

Having a quasi-homonym meal - Thai-Mex. lurqer

To: lurqer who wrote (26827)	6/12/2003 3:52:27 PM
From: abuelita	Respond to of 104202

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov -johnny cash

To: lurqer who wrote (26827)	6/12/2003 4:02:23 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 104202

So in the Lunar sky is a huge (four times the size of a Full Moon) ring of Red Fire. For that shot, I’d definitely break out the ole digicam. I'm jealous... I'd have to have a space suit, too. Not to mention a rocket and a realy big budget :) Nice image.

To: lurqer who wrote (26827)	6/13/2003 8:18:56 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104202

The amount of interesting stuff locked up inside of that head of yours is impressive. Pretty cool. So is this. Maybe you already saw it. I'm not sure Hoser did. (She probably would have posted it.) Instead, I think she was busy trying to get a plastic bag out of her fresh water intake. Here is a rare sight. A double eclipse. antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov A lunar and a ballunar. <g> -Clapernicus P.S. Since you mentioned bending of light... If I had some time right now I'd mention some how I was reading about black holes and how they are so dense that they "suck up" everything near them including light. So it got me thinking how it must be difficult to see anything past them since the light from the image behind it would be sucked up into that black hole. So as I stare off into the star filled sky, I often wonder how many black holes am I looking at but just can't see. In addition, I wonder how many of the stars out there are not actually in their proper position but instead have been visually skewed due to the bending of the light near enough to that ultra dense black hole. ...but I don't have much time so I won't mention it. <g> Actually if I had the time I would have written what you see here about our own Milkyway's black hole named Cygnus X-1: eso.org Uh...well I probably would have written most of what you see there but then I would have stopped writing somewhere just before they started talking about "Comptonization of Soft Photons". I'm not sure what it means. All I know is that Compton is an innercity suburb of Los Angeles. And since we are talking about Black Holes I'm beginning to question whether or not all this talk is politically correct. Should this space phenomonon be called African American Holes when talking about the Comptonization of Soft Protons? And what makes those Protons so darn soft anyhow? Whud up wit dat? Those Protons are a bunch of mommas boys. All soft and whutnot. Sorry about that. I'm not sure how I got off on that tangent. The light seems to be bending around that dense head of mine once again. Another thing I would have left out if I had time to write the stuff from that web page would have been the part where they start mentioning things like "k-alpha line", anything that had an "eV" or a "keV", all that "gamma", "tau", and "epselon" talk. Studies have shown that when normal people read stuff like that, their eyes begin to glaze over, dribble begins flowing from their bottom lip, and they soon become hypnotized or else it triggers their mouse-scroll-button-finger to quickly jettison them past that part of the discussion. Anyhow, I have to keep this quick and short. Later, Cosmo. Gotta run.