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In my first job with IBM, as a vacation student in 1973, I had some free time and I worked out how to use overpunching on the IBM 029...

Racing green. He was actually driving off slowly as I took this, it sounded nowhere near as pretty as it looked! Would have been...

Early electronic calculators and microcomputers: Apple I computers in "original condition" are apparently scarce enough that...

More rhododendrons today, this time at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey, Hampshire, UK. (All taken with my Panasonic Lumix TZ200...

Some analysis of the Artemis pictures The second part (starting 6:10) takes multiple versions of the Earth eclipse images to make an...

My Panasonic Lumix TZ200 ("travel zoom" camera, compact with up to 15x optical zoom) is very convenient to carry around and has a...

We visited Exbury Gardens (in Hampshire, UK) a couple of days ago. It's an amazing sight all year round, but in rhododendron and azalea...

For a different strength of gravity, atmospheric pressure and hence density would be expected to be different too (unless in a closed...

I'm wondering whether the second stage subsequently managed the third (disposal) burn. If it did, then in hindsight it might have been...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_H._Brans...

Half steps left to right, fourths top to bottom like a guitar is the default but this may be any interval you like, fifths, octaves...

True of course, and presumably relevant in this case, but to avoid confusion this needs to be accompanied by the important point that if...

Thanks - I knew that the colours were completely artificial and Hubble photos include wavelengths outside the visible spectrum but I had...

For the original question: The Short Answer: No, there is no natural vantage point where Hubble images would look like what the human...

That's getting a bit off topic, but from some quick Googling, that image is probably of the order of 5 light years high, and the version...