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Good to see it back!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Good to see it back!
It's been a while since I've looked at APOD. Funny how things become a daily routine and then suddenly the routine stops.
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I have missed APOD and have not updated my Windows background for a while...
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According to a Guinness Record book which I saw more than four decades ago, this Andromeda galaxy was the farthest object visible to naked eye. Not sure whether that record has changed.
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Andromeda is coming closer to us every second. In a billion years or so it may not hold that record anymore, but the night sky might be spectacular.
Edit: Make that 4 billion years[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 15-Oct-19 9:46am.
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There was only B&W before Photoshop? 
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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in the early days there was only hydrogen, colorless
a while later some of that blobbed together to make stars (and helium, sadly also colorless)
giving us white where there was a star, and black where there wasn't.
quite a long while later some stars got too heavy and blobbed hydrogen in different ways, for the first time demonstrating other colors.
so yes relatively speaking, color is quite recent.
(actual evidence seen on TV it was was around the late 1950's.)
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I wonder how they played pool before colour was invented...
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Not quite correct.
Stars are (to a first approximation) Black Bodies in the thermodynamics sense. This means that their peak radiation output depends on their surface temperature, which in turn depends on their mass. Small stars (less than 0.1 Solar masses) are red dwarfs, up to massive (10 or more Solar masses) blue-white stars.
The dark lines in the spectrum do indicate atomic composition, and these can be used to classify stars as "population I", "population II", etc., with older stars containing fewer complex elements.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is hard-coding when you are really struggling with some difficult code?
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I thought that was when you were developing a Pr0n site?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Coding and Heavy Metal. Been doing that for decades.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You should do heart-coding 
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Isn't that what incompetent cardiologists do?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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For pacemakers? 
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I do hardly-coding 
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So how else do you do it then? Wear some feathers on your head and dance around the computer while chanting and beating a drum?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Deceitful German lady leads David until light every night talking. (10)
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I see what you did there!
Nice one ... If it's not solved, I'll answer it - but I did yesterday so let's give the others a chance!
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I think someone will, its easy enough.
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I've got it but can't do tomorrow.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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