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bollywoggle37 02:21:52 PM May 21 2008
Thats exactly what it looks, I've been out there in my friends UFO and we have seen many wonderful things............oh by the way keep your shades down,,,,,,,we have seen some repulsive things too LOL
rwnamvet68 09:11:00 PM Jan 19 2008
jimgreen911911 05:55:20 PM Jan 19 2008
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i am a young and handsome man from us. i just think
Good face slap son........ when they report you, just change your name again and go on.
I give you a C- in spelling
an F in grammer
But you get an A for presistance
jearley 05:16:19 PM Jan 19 2008
skhpldk 04:30:34 PM Jan 19 2008
Why is it that these billion dollar space cameras are always black and white???
Its the nature of the CCDs that are used to make the photos. They only record brightness (# of photons). To make a color picture, you combine the brightness at three different wavelengths, red-green-blue, and then combine the images using filters to make a color picture. If you look carefully at your computer screen, you will see that the pixels are just that, red, green and blue. Your eyes see RGB (actually the green is closer to yellow) and combine those 'colors' in your brain to see all of the other colors. So, in a sense, a CCD works just like your eye. These photos of Mercury may well be in color, but the planet might be just as the images show- shades of gray.
skhpldk 04:30:34 PM Jan 19 2008
Why is it that these billion dollar space cameras are always black and white???
jearley 03:33:42 PM Jan 19 2008
new44moon comment: This commnet is really far-fetched. You're saying that mankind is going to establish a mining operation on Mercury? Will dynamite work there? Oh wait you can't light a stick of dynamite on Mercury, the atmosphere there is too thin.
Sorry to take so long to reply. First, you're wrong about the dynamite, as it is set off using electric charges these days, and anyway, dynamite is not much used for mining anymore- there are safer explosives. I would expect that perhaps 150-200 years from now for much of the solar system to be at least explored, if not possessing small outposts, dissident colonies, etc. Most mining on Mercury would be robotic. As to 'far-fetched', well, I beg to differ. Well within the next 20 years or so, the first permanent commercial space ventures will be in orbit. I mean manned ventures, as there are already many private unmanned satellites up there. Bigelow (sp?) will have the first private space station in just a few years- he already launc
kalliji 11:52:21 AM Jan 19 2008
Intelligent design - I don't think so. Truth is, no one knows how we got here. Creation myth/intelligent design, doesn't even remotely make any sense. I'm just enjoying the beauty of these images. But I certainly don't credit them to any superstitious nonsense.
jonbon51788 02:35:21 AM Jan 19 2008
Wow, I can't help but be baffled by the greatness of God's creations. Just observing each and everyone of those images blows my mind. How complex and precise the universe is. It just makes me wonder how can anyone after looking at such images deny the fact that we and our universe is not by intelligent design. Absolutely breathtaking pictures. And I agree with what Rumours said, we have only begun to even scratch the surface of investigating what lies beyond earth. There are so many possiblites. There could be another earth, billions of lightyears away, with people just like us, wondering the same thoughts. I can't even wrap my mind around the concept.
theenabler52 01:31:00 AM Jan 19 2008
( cobdrum 11:31:18 AM Jan 18 2008 It is great that we explore space.Man will go to the stars one of these days.Did you know that "Wars" create inventions that help mankind.Jets,Atomic,Computers,to name a few.We as humankind are evil etc.and hopefully one of these days when we meet out own kind somewhere in space we have found a way to get along with one another. ) < GOOD and EVIL are RELATIVE, you cannot have one without the other in a SYSTEM OF VALUES. The real THREAT in SPACE is that we meet a more advanced PRAGMATIC species that does not have a VALUE SYSTEM, WNEN / IF that happens we would be in BIG TROUBLE.
rumours277 02:05:28 PM Jan 18 2008
Seeing all those pictures, how could anyone think that we are the only living beings out there?? We have no idea what's out there.....billions and billions and billions of light years and galaxies.......that we've only barely just scratched the surface of investigating........the human brain can't even begin to wrap itself around what could be out there. Somewhere. Places we can't even reach. How can we be certain there are no other living creatures anywhere out there. Maybe even another world just like ours, with beings just like us.
Incredible!!
