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So the aliens have taken you into orbit to view the Earth and the damage we're doing to it? Grab that iPhone and snap a couple of photos.
originally posted by: Bybyots
a reply to: JadeStar
So the aliens have taken you into orbit to view the Earth and the damage we're doing to it? Grab that iPhone and snap a couple of photos.
Christ JadeStar! You're asking for way too much here. Have you ever tried to manipulate a smart phone during a bout of sleep paralysis? It's impossible, and it wakes you up eventually so there is nothing to photograph.
Not an excuse. I swear.
originally posted by: JadeStar
Whisked off to Zeta 2 Reticuli d? Take a picture of the planet and if possible a photo of the stars of the night sky. The arrangement of stars in the night sky there would be very different from Earth in a specific, testable way.
Guided by "beings from the Pleiades" and shown their beautiful area of space? Well, we astronomers would love some pictures from within that beautiful open cluster of young stars so snap one! Become a hero, win a nobel prize!
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: JadeStar
Whisked off to Zeta 2 Reticuli d? Take a picture of the planet and if possible a photo of the stars of the night sky. The arrangement of stars in the night sky there would be very different from Earth in a specific, testable way.
Guided by "beings from the Pleiades" and shown their beautiful area of space? Well, we astronomers would love some pictures from within that beautiful open cluster of young stars so snap one! Become a hero, win a nobel prize!
So...any particular place you would like an image f the stars from/ I'm nearly finished with a bit of software that can product "maps" of selected stars, or regions of space. It uses Hipparcos data for position, class, etc. and produces a python script for use with "Poser Pro" that creates an appropriate "bucky ball", colors, scales, and places in 3D space.
The result is a highly accurate 3d rendering of space with in which One can place a camera and view from anywhere.
While I haven't saved any of the renders, I've viewed the "Hill map" from Zeta 2 Reticuli...vastly different!
The only serious issues the software currently has is appropriate "sizing" of the buckyball stars, and the older version of Poser that doesn't support "self illumination" (ambient intensity) for the stars.
ETA: I forgot the cavalcade...my excuse: There is no advanced life at the Pleiades. Stars are too young...
originally posted by: JadeStar
Congratulations.... You just recreated Celestia and Space Engine.
What's is feel like to re-invent the wheel?
That map is taken from a perspective about 200 light years away from most of the stars on it.
Why are you reinventing Celestia and Space engine with crude buckyball stars?
Yep, but don't tell the contactees that. They will stare at you blankly or hostilely respond "How do you know!?!" to which you can explain stellar kinematics, spectral classes, and stellar evolution to them and they will return to looking at you with a blank stare. Or they will simply say "well yeah, they are young, in this dimension but very old in the dimension where the Pleiadians come from."
At that point, just walk away for they have not a rational cell in the grey matter of their brains.
originally posted by: BerenstEiner
Place smartphone in butt.
Profit??
originally posted by: Puppylove
I love this logic, the aliens can supposedly come here from other stars, break the laws of physics as we know them, but yet the concept they can stop you from taking pictures with your phone while right next to them, or erase your pictures is too much.
Faster than light travel, no problem, but how do I work this damn smart phone?
originally posted by: JadeStar
Or they will simply say "well yeah, they are young, in this dimension but very old in the dimension where the Pleiadians come from."
At that point, just walk away for they have not a rational cell in the grey matter of their brains.
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: Prime0X
I dunno we seem to barely survive getting of this rock to go to the moon in the first place. How many failed launches have we had? How many times we even been to the moon to have had a chance to have crashed?