Comments for Spacetrawler http://spacetrawler.com mon. & wed. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:13:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Brandon http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65100 Brandon Mon, 21 May 2012 12:13:27 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65100 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">In today's #Spacetrawler, no gerbils are harmed, but childhood car-trip games are played with abandon. http://t.co/CwhPnmyc</span></span> In today's #Spacetrawler, no gerbils are harmed, but childhood car-trip games are played with abandon. http://t.co/CwhPnmyc

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by clacke http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65101 clacke Mon, 21 May 2012 11:21:57 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65101 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">In today's #Spacetrawler, no gerbils are harmed, but childhood car-trip games are played with abandon. http://t.co/CwhPnmyc</span></span> In today's #Spacetrawler, no gerbils are harmed, but childhood car-trip games are played with abandon. http://t.co/CwhPnmyc

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Christopher Baldwin http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65102 Christopher Baldwin Mon, 21 May 2012 11:10:26 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65102 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">In today's #Spacetrawler, no gerbils are harmed, but childhood car-trip games are played with abandon. http://t.co/CwhPnmyc</span></span> In today's #Spacetrawler, no gerbils are harmed, but childhood car-trip games are played with abandon. http://t.co/CwhPnmyc

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Hydrargyrum http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65122 Hydrargyrum Mon, 21 May 2012 09:30:49 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65122 Should Gurf be saying "...small white and twinkly" rather than "...small white a twinkly" in the last panel? Should Gurf be saying “…small white and twinkly” rather than “…small white a twinkly” in the last panel?

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Plane http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65119 Plane Mon, 21 May 2012 09:22:02 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65119 Twinkly? No, Planets don't and in spacer stars don't either, twinkly is an atmospheric effect. Twinkly?

No, Planets don’t and in spacer stars don’t either, twinkly is an atmospheric effect.

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Kathleen http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65108 Kathleen Mon, 21 May 2012 08:10:06 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65108 Christopher- there isn't confusion. or if there was, it wouldn't matter. Christopher- there isn’t confusion. or if there was, it wouldn’t matter.

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Galane http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65091 Galane Mon, 21 May 2012 06:02:37 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65091 I didn't notice any darkening where I am in Idaho. I remember the eclipse in 1977, it got really dark for a few minutes even though the totality path didn't come anywhere near the US mainland. I wonder what sort of aircraft scientists use to chase eclipses since the Concorde and SR-71 planes are no longer flying? They used to charter a Concorde to chase the eclipse so they could get a longer observing time. IIRC at least once an SR-71 had the rear seat replaced with an upward pointing camera rig for that purpose. Easy to keep pace since the Blackbird can fly over 3 times faster than Earth's surface speed at the equator. Eclipse chasing would be kinda slow for those airplanes. I didn’t notice any darkening where I am in Idaho. I remember the eclipse in 1977, it got really dark for a few minutes even though the totality path didn’t come anywhere near the US mainland.

I wonder what sort of aircraft scientists use to chase eclipses since the Concorde and SR-71 planes are no longer flying? They used to charter a Concorde to chase the eclipse so they could get a longer observing time. IIRC at least once an SR-71 had the rear seat replaced with an upward pointing camera rig for that purpose. Easy to keep pace since the Blackbird can fly over 3 times faster than Earth’s surface speed at the equator. Eclipse chasing would be kinda slow for those airplanes.

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Jordan http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65084 Jordan Mon, 21 May 2012 05:01:55 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65084 Sadly the eclipse wasn't much better in Portland. The sun was nominally visible through the clouds, but I couldn't see the eclipse happening. Sadly the eclipse wasn’t much better in Portland. The sun was nominally visible through the clouds, but I couldn’t see the eclipse happening.

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Christopher http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65079 Christopher Mon, 21 May 2012 04:19:21 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65079 @Coyoty, huh. Did you read it to mean that Gurf was seeing one of the planets the Eebs had torched? Because I simply meant it to be that they were passing by a solar system, and so it twinkled in that way how planets in our solar system to us look like stars. Doesn't really matter one way or another, but if there's confusion, i might tweak it. @Coyoty, huh. Did you read it to mean that Gurf was seeing one of the planets the Eebs had torched? Because I simply meant it to be that they were passing by a solar system, and so it twinkled in that way how planets in our solar system to us look like stars.

Doesn’t really matter one way or another, but if there’s confusion, i might tweak it.

]]> Comment on 05/20/12 Braced For Excitement (10 Comments) by Coyoty http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler-229/comment-page-1/#comment-65078 Coyoty Mon, 21 May 2012 04:14:29 +0000 http://spacetrawler.com/2012/05/20/spacetrawler5wers/#comment-65078 That one WAS a planet. That one WAS a planet.

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