DarkMouze

Xed said:

DarkMouze said:

waveparticle said:

The nearest star is four light years away. There is no way any telescope will be able to see a planet of any star so far away. 

As noted in the NASA link in the article itself, the first planet directly imaged by a telescope was in 2004, when the VLT telescope pictured one in a system 230 light years away. The mistake referenced in the article was not that they could see a planet using the telescope, but that they were nowhere near being the first to do so.

I believe VLT (Chile) is the first land-based telescope to take an image of an exoplanet.

That makes sense to me…I’m betting you’re right. But that’s certainly not what the NASA piece says. I can see the AI headline now. “NASA Completely Botches Astronomy!”

waveparticle said:

The nearest star is four light years away. There is no way any telescope will be able to see a planet of any star so far away. 

As noted in the NASA link in the article itself, the first planet directly imaged by a telescope was in 2004, when the VLT telescope pictured one in a system 230 light years away. The mistake referenced in the article was not that they could see a planet using the telescope, but that they were nowhere near being the first to do so.

Madbum said:

williamh said:

Government motto: if it ain’t broken we will fix it until it is. 

Disgusting isn’t it 

And a ridiculous oversimplification, not to mention a sweeping generalization. Governments do amazing things for us that we don’t appreciate because we totally take them for granted. They also do bad things, and they make mistakes. It helps if we elect competent people to tip the balance to the former. Will Rogers, I believe, liked to say “democracy is the worst form of government, other than all the others,” or something like that…

Madbum said:

spheric said:

Madbum said:

This White House , which I regretfully voted For

is fast tracking our families  to a Nuclear War vs Russia….

is helping European Union bashing America’s greatest companies while doing nothing against European companies 



 a complete shit show in more ways than one ….

😂😂😂

I was waiting for someone to tie this into EU-bashing. 

Well, do you see EU bash their own companies? No they know how to protect their own and tax base.

but current American government stands with Europeans more than Americans ….

Do you really expect us to see coverage in the media of European regulation of European companies? Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The companies we’re talking about here are technically American companies, but they’re really fully international in their scope, size and influence. Not surprising they get attention from everywhere.

lkrupp said:

danox said:

Microsoft Free here…..

Good for you but in the real world that’s extremely hard to do. So what do you do when a friend or client sends you a Word document or a Power Point slideshow?

Presumably open it in Pages or Keynote, or any of a number of third party apps that are cross compatible with the Microsoft products. Not perfect, but if you aren’t a high volume user or working in a full MS environment they do the trick.