Recent content by Alien8

Bought a cheap set of compact binocs from Aliexpress just for light gathering when looking at the night sky in general, they are 3 x 50 and cost about US$50. Lenses were much better than expected, alignment was good, stars show as single sharp points, not much distortion, and you go from seeing...

Nope, the image is a jpg. Maybe the writer converted an animated gif to a jpg to make it smaller, not realising they would lose all but the first frame. Lots of these writers don't understand much about images that aren't jpgs, being brought up on smart phones and not real computers.

Watched both fairly recently, Deep Impact is definitely the better of the two movies overall. Armageddon is just so ridiculous that it really takes away from the experience. I guess it appeals to the less mature audiences who just want stupidity and loud explosions and machoism...

Don't bother with The Tomorrow War, we got half way through and gave up, the plot holes are so numerous and huge that it takes complete suspension of your intelligence to watch the whole thing.

So, how exactly did it take a photo of itself from that distance, with no visible boom? You probably should cover things like that in such an article...

Intelligent people don't strap themselves into an unproven rocket built in their backyard shed. Any fool can build a rocket that goes a few hundred or thousand feet, you only need a few seconds of thrust in the right direction. An intelligent person would look at it and think to themselves...

His demise was inevitable, not very bright people have a tendency to kill themselves. Fortunately, he didn't take anyone else with him.