Comment Troll (Score 1) 324
Well done San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department, you have pulled off the best troll ever.
I agree that there is a quality about seeing them through a telescope that is not present in pictures, but I think it has more to do with the idea that light has been traveling for millions of years and is ending up in my eye. I tend to forget about that when I look at pictures.
In any case, the first time I saw a nebula through a telescope, with a fair amount of light pollution, I was ready to see something like the "pillars of creation" picture of the eagle nebula. All I actually saw was a patch of the sky that was a bit brighter than the background. I was about 8, and thankfully someone moved on quickly and showed me Jupiter and its moons.
I absolutely have to second the Pleiades. They look absolutely spectacular at low magnification. Most any open star cluster will be pretty impressive. The same goes for planets and the moon.
Unfortunately, to kids desensitized by pictures from Hubble, galaxies and nebulae seen through a telescope are pretty disappointing. In my mind, the best part about finding some of the dimmer objects is actually finding them. Learning your way around the sky is truly a challenge. I think that kids that young would have a hard time appreciating the significance of viewing another galaxy, so you should stick to things that are visually stimulating.
The answer was {0 (no one really understands Quantum Mechanics), 1 (Changing the bulb did leave him in an excited state), 2 (One to do it, and one to observe)...}
Once you looked in you probably found the answer was a linear combination of quantum physicists and maintenance workers
There isn't any current history of temperature trends on Venus.
However, there are of Mars, Jupiter, Triton, Neptune, and Pluto.
As the most mind-boggling coincidence EVAR, all five show global warming over the last 30 years that correlate with the rising temperature trends on Earth in that period.
[citation needed]
As far as the blog thing goes, use your free official E-mail addy to send plaintext to somebody else who will maintain your blog for you and send you plaintext wikipedia articles as desired, and do that as much as possible so that you can save your precious 125 minutes - It won't be a real-time thing, but that's one of the whole points of being at sea(or camping, for that matter).
I have to second this, at least for Wikipedia. A person will do much better at getting you the correct article, and providing annotations as to any important illustrations or pictures. It shouldn't be difficult to update your blog by email, and I'm sure a google search could have turned up a plethora of suitable options.
Every time I see a woman who is immaculately dressed and made-up, I think:
She is signaling that she is a desirable mate, and not just cause you would enjoy mating with her. She is desirable because she is successful and will give your children a higher chance of likewise being successful and producing viable offspring.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
