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Van Gogh Lives!Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
Blood moon tomorrow night.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I really hate IFLS anymore but this came across my feed this morning and I thought y'all might find it interesting.
https://www.iflscience.com/unexpected-jwst-observations-hint-we-might-be-inside-a-black-hole-78407?fbclid=IwY2xjawI_30FleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbya8EHfUIrZb2NL1fmnRute-9q4LHIAOFqvXsA9tP6HRN8-G_PSttep2A_aem_oOvZ5uJmlZi_17WbedG8cgExpert Moron Extraordinaire
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So I guess they were wrong that everything sucked into a black hole gets shredded...
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I may have missed this (or simply do not recall hearing of this) before but...
...and here I thought hang time off a 110' jump at a quarry was a long hang time! And below, is a lunar halo, formed by air crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
I remember that, crazy funofasitch!
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Yeah, me, too. I didn't think it was quite that long ago, though!
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Some shots of Jupiter...
Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Those look even better than the one I posted back in February. I do wonder how much they are "enhanced." Astrophotography always involves a significant amount of Photoshop work since many of the colors are outside of our visual range.
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Just a heads up for all you rural folk with no light pollution:supposed to be a high probability of auroras in the US Possibly early morning tonight, More probable early morning Monday like 2am lasting possibly through Tuesday morning.Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
World’s most powerful digital camera captures historic first images
Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-gigapixel camera unveils the universe in unprecedented detail
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/worlds-most-powerful-digital-camera-captures-historic-first-images?dicbo=v2-1aOHW7w&intcmp=fn_article_br_ob_more_from
https://media.wired.com/photos/6350660f21fedebd16545c47/3:2/w_1920,c_limit/2022_0927_LSST_Lens_Cap_Off_Orrell-science.jpg
2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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Useless information you can retain for absolutely no reason...
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
🚨 NASA’s Voyager 1 — 48 Years in Space and Still Not a Full Light-Day Away
Launched on September 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been traveling through space for 48 years. After traveling over 23 billion km, Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object, still sending faint radio signals from the edge of interstellar space — nearly half a century after launch.
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
Would love to see the aliens faces when they find Vee-Ger.
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »🚨 NASA’s Voyager 1 — 48 Years in Space and Still Not a Full Light-Day Away
Launched on September 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been traveling through space for 48 years. After traveling over 23 billion km, Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object, still sending faint radio signals from the edge of interstellar space — nearly half a century after launch.
It's also moving the fastest of any known, human-made object... if memory serves.
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What I find truly amazing is nothing has hit either one of them and destroyed an antenna or splattered the entire platform.
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What I find truly amazing is nothing has hit either one of them and destroyed an antenna or splattered the entire platform.
That's a good catch.
I suppose it may just be a marker for how empty space is, on the average.
The amount of kinetic energy involved in a collision with even a tiny particle would be fairly bodacious. (as any astrophysicist might put it
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No doubt Doc! Things traveling tens of thousands MPH have bodacious kinetic energy as you so eloquently put it. 😎
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Where's the earth shattering KABOOM, there's supposed to.....
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Shields are holding at 100%, Captain.The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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skipshot12 wrote: »Where's the earth shattering KABOOM, there's supposed to.....
When I teach about so-called "soft" ionization methods for mass spectrometry of large and rather delicate molecules, I invoke Nobel laureate John Fenn...
... and Marvin.
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UPDATE:
On November 13, 2026, Voyager Will Reach One Full Light-Day Away From Earth
https://www.iflscience.com/on-november-13-2026-voyager-will-reach-one-full-light-day-away-from-earth-81432
NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Found A 30,000-50,000 Kelvin "Wall" At The Edge Of Our Solar System
(about 54,000 to 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit/article from June 2025)
https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-found-a-30000-50000-kelvin-wall-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system-79454Man's First Attempt:
As a kid I was amazed by
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
Interesting how temps can be so high that far away from the sun.
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Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Amazing what AI can make these days....
JK. I'm not one of the doubters. It was awesome to watch the takeoff follow the mission. I'm mad that I forgot to watch the coverage yesterday. By the time I remembered after grilling steaks, they were already out of the capsule and back on the ship. -
https://youtu.be/LUfoS-FrATQ?si=qV3ADNVjwnWVoxCU
