🌎🌍 World Space Week & Pens 🖌️🖋️

[Misfit]

@inkstainedruth I was thinking of you when I was posting the Sailor. I knew there were other Pro Gear Slim pens with Space names. I hope you do fill yours, and your week becomes better. 

[inkstainedruth]

22 minutes ago, Misfit said:

More for day 4. 
For those of us old enough to have memories of Apollo 11, please share yours. 
 

I remember my Mom taking my older brothers and me out on the front porch. She indicated the Moon, and told us there were men on the Moon right now. I don’t remember TV coverage  

I remember being allowed to stay up later than I normally would have been (even in the summer), especially for the actual landing, and the part about Neil Armstrong climbing down onto the moon's surface.  And I remember the TV being on a lot more than normal (as a result of which, my brother and I got to watch this REALLY odd TV movie called The Cube about a guy who wakes up in a giant cube and doesn't know how he got there or how to get out of it, while all these random people seem to be able to come and go at will (including a real estate agent "showing" the place to potential buyers, and a kid on a tricycle chanting "You'll never get out!  You'll never get out!"

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291118/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_20] 

It's weird to contemplate the weird associations that kids have to major events: I always think of the Kennedy assassination in retrospect to a bunch of people standing in line at the cemetery during live coverage on TV (probably on The Today Show) followed by a segment about -- of all things -- *flamenco dancing*....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[wallylynn]

I had friends that took their family on a trip to the total eclipse. Carolinas was it? I probably just used a pinhole camera.

 

Saw the lunar eclipse in between a gap in the clouds. Then went back to sleep

 

 

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

I just bought two Eversharp Astronaut pens. Because the fisher AG7 is extortatively priced. I’ll pick them up tomorrow (hopefully)

 

 

[Misfit]

2 hours ago, IThinkIHaveAProblem said:

I just bought two Eversharp Astronaut pens. Because the fisher AG7 is extortatively priced. I’ll pick them up tomorrow (hopefully)

 

 

Once you get them, will you post a photo of them, please? 

[Misfit]

For day five of World Space Week, the last of the Apollo missions celebrating their 50th anniversary is in December. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972, and returned on the 19th. 
 

Soon Apollo and Atlas V will be joined by Artemis and Orion. Soon in this case could be a decade or more. Exciting to think a woman will walk on the Moon. I wonder if Artemis astronauts will get parades.  In the past, the Space program innovations were eventually shared in technology we use. Will that continue with Artemis? 

[Runnin_Ute]

In my Facebook account, a memory popped up today originally posted by a friend of mine about a run we shared on October 8, 2014 under a Blood Moon eclipse that morning.  Good memory. As I recall it was really amazing. 

[Misfit]

@Runnin_Ute Thank you for reminding us of lunar eclipses.  I remember the last time I watched one of those. It’s been several years, unfortunately. 

[Runnin_Ute]

16 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Runnin_Ute Thank you for reminding us of lunar eclipses.  I remember the last time I watched one of those. It’s been several years, unfortunately. 

probably around the same time I saw it - eight years ago.

[Misfit]

It’s day 6 of World Space Week. Let’s talk planetariums. I’ve been to three. I’ve been to Chicago’s Adler Planetarium.  I got a cool constellation poster there. Kansas City had a small planetarium in the years before Science City opened at Union Station. So I’ve been to that smaller one, and the one at Union Station called the Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium. 
 

This is the poster I got, with a flash from my phone on it. The poster glows in the dark from the way the stars are marked. Even the Milky Way is coated to glow in the dark. 
 

[Misfit]

For a long time Saturn was my favorite planet. When I saw a TV show about the planets, I gained more respect for Jupiter. Its gravitational pull keeps many asteroids away from us. The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter. And that Great Red Spot makes Jupiter as instantly recognizable as the rings of Saturn.

 

Excluding Earth, what is your favorite planet?  (If it is Earth, and that is what you want to say, ok go ahead.)

[wallylynn]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

Excluding Earth, what is your favorite planet?  (If it is Earth, and that is what you want to say, ok go ahead.)

Is pluto a planet? Not that it my favorite. I 'm just being a trouble maker.

[inkstainedruth]

23 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

In my Facebook account, a memory popped up today originally posted by a friend of mine about a run we shared on October 8, 2014 under a Blood Moon eclipse that morning.  Good memory. As I recall it was really amazing. 

A couple of years ago we were driving east across I-84 in NYS and had stopped for dinner someplace off the highway.  Got back on the road just as a blood moon was coming up, and at the horizon it also looked HUGE.  (I think it was also at a time when it was at the short axis in its orbit, so closer than usual to the Earth in general).  Before getting back on the highway, we went down a small road to a place that didn't have a lot of street lights and I tried to take photos of it, but didn't get the red color to come out right on my phone....  Which was sad because it was really spectacular looking....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

4 hours ago, Misfit said:

For a long time Saturn was my favorite planet. When I saw a TV show about the planets, I gained more respect for Jupiter. Its gravitational pull keeps many asteroids away from us. The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter. And that Great Red Spot makes Jupiter as instantly recognizable as the rings of Saturn.

 

Excluding Earth, what is your favorite planet?  (If it is Earth, and that is what you want to say, ok go ahead.)

Hmmm.  That's a tough one.  It's sort of a toss up between Saturn and Mars.  Saturn is very unique with its rings -- but Mars is the one that was the subject/setting of so many books (from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ray Bradbury to C.S. Lewis) and movies/TV shows (such as episodes of Doctor Who, the series The Martian Chronicles, and the movie The Martian [the recent movie with Matt Damon].

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

3 hours ago, wallylynn said:

Is pluto a planet? Not that it my favorite. I 'm just being a trouble maker.

Well here we can claim Pluto because we aren’t astronomers. At least I don’t think anyone who has posted in this thread is an astronomer. 

[Misfit]

It is October 10, the seventh and last day of World Space Week. I’ve found some interesting articles, instead of simply providing websites to explore. 
 

Recent news on what caused the tilt of Uranus as reported here:

 

https://www.space.com/uranus-tilt-from-lost-moon-not-impact
 

 

A way is suggested in this article to prolong the Hubble Space Telescope:

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/09/hubble-spacex-nasa-elon-musk/671621/

 

 

Earth’s tectonic plates are important to life on Earth. Mars lacks them, and there are no Martians. You can watch one billion years of tectonic plates moving here:

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-1-billion-years-of-shifting-tectonic-plates-in-40-mesmerizing-seconds

 

 

While there is no way to show a million miles in a way we can comprehend, our Sun sent out a million mile long coronal mass ejection: 
 

https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-photo-captures-million-mile-long-plume-shooting-out-of-the-sun

 

 

Light years are another hard to comprehend distance. New stars are forming, and this article lets us know how far away the near ones are:

 

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-cosmic-isolation/

 

Within the last two weeks Juno captured amazing clouds on Jupiter:

 

https://www.newsweek.com/incredible-images-jupiter-spacecraft-show-frosted-cupcake-clouds-1747400

 

Here’s looking forward to Fountain Pen Day in November. And hopes to celebrate World Space Day (and Pens) next year. I forgot to share images of space themed notebooks. That can be part of next year and World Space Week.

 

[Misfit]

The Planetary Society advocates to Congress for Space projects. It’s also worth joining for the magazine and online content.  Bill Nye the Science Guy is a top leader. 
https://www.planetary.org
 

The StarDate magazine from the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas is also worth a membership.  Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson once wrote the Merlin column in this magazine. 

https://stardate.org

 

 

I have belonged/subscribed to both. 

[A Smug Dill]

On 10/10/2022 at 10:14 AM, wallylynn said:

Is pluto a planet? Not that it my favorite. I 'm just being a trouble maker.

 

I like Pluto because it ‘fooled’ everyone, just like a sociopath who everyone believes they're ‘normal‘ for the type of person others on their own accord identify that individual as, because what is relevant are the criteria (or evaluation framework) and noted observations used for the assessment, not the ‘true‘ nature of the unique entity under scrutiny.

 

[Misfit]

Bonus topic even though the World Space Week is over.

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128132956/nasa-dart-success-asteroid-dimorphos?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20221012&utm_term=7368054&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=54534052&orgid=60&utm_att1=

[Astronymus]

If we don't blow ourselves up we might have a chance now to defend Earth itself from "intruders".