I’m so glad to have found this!~

I really appreciated your picture of Orion as it is about to set until August or so when it will appear in the skies shortly before sunrise.

I happened to catch NOVA last night in the local PBS Station. Maybe this is old news to you, but it was one of the most fascinating ones I’ve ever seen. It was about Black Holes … specifically the one that seems to have been proven during this special to exist in the center of the Milky Way. There are some underappreciated scientists featured in this episode … first the one who estimated the center of the galaxy by pointing an infrared device attached to a telscope around from here to there, determining (correctly) by the intensity of stars that the center of the galaxy was somewhere in or near the constellation Saggitarius, obscurred from us visually by a thick layer of dust that rides the galactic midplane.

The other scientist was someone who had figured out a way to optically correct any picture to “un-blur” it even as the atmosphere’s refractions cause great distrotions in a distant object’s true appearance. As she described her abilities, she said she could be in Los Angeles and make a person’s hand with the thumb’s up in New York visible. Together, they tracked stars making eliptical orbits around an unseen object, and there they had their black hole. We were then given astonishingly new views inside a black hole which is beyond any ever described so far by Sci-Fi (although I don’t catch much Sci-Fi) where even light travels round and round and never goes into the center or escapes, even as the matter is either absorbed the crushing density or converted to energy. One of the most interesting things to me was the “near miss,” where objects vaporize between getting pulled in or escaping, and swirling jets of gas escape after gaining density as beams of poles escaping at nearly the speed of light. We have actually seen many such jets shooting from the poles of black holes, but these are in fact temporary phenenemons as the fuel sources supplying their existence is temporary and finite.

Wow, I have to say that was probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on NOVA.

Very, very exciting, ’specially for me, Miss “I Want To Believe”. xD

(Too much X-Files, Fringe, and Star Trek? Impossible…)

Check out the “Coyote Series” (and other great novels / short stories) by Allen Steele. His writing is charged with recent discoveries and plausible technologies. He’s often called “the modern day Robert A. Heinlein.” The Coyote novels are about the struggle to colonize a habitable, earth-like moon, orbiting a ringed gas giant in a ‘relatively nearby’ solar system.

I’d sure appreciate seeing some of A. Steele’s visions translated to film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Steele

http://www.coyoteseries.com/

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=5&article=6781

Hey-ohh!!