echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 For anyone using Google Chrome, please do check this out, brilliant use of computers to create a 3d visualisation of the stellar neighbourhood! Beautiful to look at I think give it a minute to load if your internet is slow, worth the wait http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ 1 Quote
echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 this always strikes me with wonder as well, really is impossible to imagine how big these are! Quote
Norman Verona Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 I'm just a dumfkop who hasn't a hope in fully understanding our universe. But, I'm truly in awe of the facts and images about it all. We have little light pollution here and on moonless nights in the summer I can stand outside for hours just looking up at the edge of the milky way. HM goes outside most night when it's clear (summer or winter) to view the night sky and she's learning what they are all called. The one man who gave me some idea about what it all was has just left us for his voyage in space. 1 Quote
echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 Agreed, was listening on Radio 2 on monday the day after he passed away, was great listening back to interviews and people speaking of their memories with him, sounded like a truly great man Quote
Norman Verona Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 The tribute on Tuesday night was a bit disappointing as it only dealt with his TV programme. It could have been twice as long and dealt with all his activities. Quote
echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 Something is better than nothing though Quote
Norman Verona Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Agreed. However the BBC owe him far more than money. The programme has a cult following and is the longest running TV programme in the world (I think). I wonder if it will continue and if so, who will present. Brian May would do a good job. Quote
echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 You'd like to think so wouldn't you, but I don't think the Beeb and a few other big fish really care about the people anymore! And I believe you are correct, 55 years presenting the same show Quote
Norman Verona Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Correct there, the price of everything, the value of nothing springs to mind. Quote
echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 that's a great way of describing it! To many people worry about the price instead of the value Quote
Norman Verona Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 I can't take the credit for that saying, it's Oscar Wilde. Some more: Top 5 quotes from Oscar Wilde "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." "Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are; by which we can see life as a whole: by which and which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations." "She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman." "To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance." Top 5 quotes from Anti-God, Attitude "Faith is a continuation of reason." "There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." "One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." "Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain." "If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person." Quote
FILFAN Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 they can map 100000 stars but yet apple maps cant find my street Quote
echoz Posted December 13, 2012 Author Posted December 13, 2012 they can map 100000 stars but yet apple maps cant find my street and Norm this is delightful "One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error." Quote
Norman Verona Posted December 13, 2012 Posted December 13, 2012 Friends, I think we only have one or, at most, two friends in life. I have one true friend who I trust without question. I've known her 48 years and she's never let me down. Children? I've tried to bring my kids up as friends rather than parent/child. They are our friends and we do have a relationship more akin to friends than child/parent. Other than that friends come and go. It seems to me that people let you down. I do try and be a true friend to people I meet along the way but just get kicked in the nuts for my trouble. Suppose it must be me. Quote
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