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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,189 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great pictures this week! Happy Friday! :)

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17, 2019 9:57AM

    Thought I heard a dog to play with.. nope, back to sleep.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17, 2019 9:57AM

    @donjalu said:
    Fast Attack Sub southbound in Admiralty Inlet. They offload nukes at Indian Island prior to arriving at home base for maintenance.

    Are you a spy???

  • donjaludonjalu Posts: 65 ✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    @donjalu said:
    Fast Attack Sub southbound in Admiralty Inlet. They offload nukes at Indian Island prior to arriving at home base for maintenance.

    Are you a spy???

    Aboard Washington State Ferry, Salish. The Route is part of SR 20, to Port Townsend. Ferry had to stand off for twenty minutes. I was talking with a retired captain of the Nimitz.

  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    USA Rocks!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 12,987 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    One of my favorite threads of all. IMO, the best images come with the location, subject, etc. Thanks all for posting!

    Great point.
    It prompted me to update my post this week with why
    The ole "who what where when why"

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DNADave said:
    In my driveway when I got home

    Just for interests sakes, what State do you live in, and do you know what sort of snake that is (I haven't a clue)?

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 18, 2019 4:03AM

  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @1630Boston said:
    NASA's Kepler Telescope has recently discovered a planet that is very like our own, orbiting a star that is quite close within our own Galaxy.

    Kepler 186f, was found in the Cygnus Constellation around 500 light-years from Earth.

    In our Galaxy alone, the Milky Way, NASA has estimated around 40 billion Earth-sized planets but this new discovery is the the first to be found in the habitable zone of the star it orbits.

    Complete with what appears to be a hurricane on the bottom left.

    For those of you that like satellite imagery of the Earth, there's a fun little free app that works on Macs. It's called Downlink (specifically Downlink 1.0). You can download it from the Mac apps store. It will appear on the menu bar (the far upper right portion of your screen). When activated it will give you 8 different satellites (GOES etc.) to choose from to display. The app will then display as your screen saver a current/almost current image from that satellite. You can set the image to be updated either every hour or every 20 minutes. Unfortunately the coverage is only of North and South America and the Pacific Basin countries (e.g. inclusive of a chunk of eastern Asia), but that is still well more than half the Earth's surface.

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17, 2019 4:51PM

    That looks awesome @BryceM!

    What are the dimensions?

    Edit. Do you have the chess pieces, too?

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My guard dog,his name is" link" still in training,

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hemispherical said:
    That looks awesome @BryceM!

    What are the dimensions?

    Edit. Do you have the chess pieces, too?

    It’s about 22” x 22”. Yes, a hand-carved set from France. That was a very thoughtful gift I received once.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PF---That would make a great tattoo. B)

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ms70 said:

    @1630Boston said:
    NASA's Kepler Telescope has recently discovered a planet that is very like our own, orbiting a star that is quite close within our own Galaxy.

    Kepler 186f, was found in the Cygnus Constellation around 500 light-years from Earth.

    In our Galaxy alone, the Milky Way, NASA has estimated around 40 billion Earth-sized planets but this new discovery is the the first to be found in the habitable zone of the star it orbits.

    Complete with what appears to be a hurricane on the bottom left.

    Thats an artist rendition. NASA fakes everything. The actual image is probably 5 blurry b&w pixels

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,189 ✭✭✭✭✭

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