what I think he's trying to point out is that there is no beauty in space simply because its not a picasso painting.
I personally think that its the beauty of logic and logos, not beauty of pathos that matters. I guess thats why people find me quirky.

But there are colors in space right? as i remember from school, everything has a color. Well nothing has its own color, hehe just dont remember how it was.
I remember that my teacher told me something about a red mail box (yeah they are red in denmark) that it wasent really red at all. Something about light.

yes, in fact stars are actually the release of a full spectrum of colors

as for the fact about mailboxes it works like this:
things of "color" look like the exact color that they aren't. they absorb all the frequencies of light OTHER THAN the frequency that they appear to be.

to be frank only luminescant things have "color". everything else is just "colored" what they dont absorb.

aah yeah, now i start to remember

so black is absorbing all colors right? and thats why its black?

hmm, i need to go back to school, maybe its becuase im getting older and this stuff is getting more interesting

yes, black is what your mind fills in when it doesnt recieve any data.

I am just saying that space isnt all that it is made up to be. Its just that space, with about 10% of it actually being filled with anything of interested. And I think less than 1% would actually interest anyone here who has a physics or astromony degree. While the rest of us get whooed by pretty pictures that are part of NASAs propoganda program(its all lies i tell you!!).

well for all the billion $$$ that are used, i can understand some need to publish, just something. To get ppl to support the space program.

Btw hows ya black goverment doing? i dont hear about em so much

I dont get the last comment...

*procesor overloading, requesting quotum upgrade*

10% of space full? you can subtract a couple of dozen 0's from that figure.


Long rant coming up, skipping to the end is advised

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Also, space IS that colorfull, you just can't see it. (huh?) That image is a composite of a lot of different pictures, all of which have different shutter times, focus etc. As suns reach different mass, they reach different heat levels, which in turn gives of another color. (blue=hot, red=cold)

The color also depends on the stars "atmosphere", which adds what is called "abosortion lines" to the spectrum (caused by materials absorbing a certain wave length). With an "atmosphere as our sun and Sirius have, give distinct hydrogen lines. while Ursa majoris give of a distinct carbon line.

This effect makes our sun yellow, with a yellow sheen (no big difference) but it makes Sirius white with a yellow sheen, which can be detected.

looking at the spectral lines, one can easily distinguish between a stars heat and it's components (and thus day something of it's age)

of course, with nebulea reflecting this light (them being mostly white) they asume the same color, which is what we can see.

The problem with telescopes is that they only have a very small area on which they focus, so you can't take a picture of such a large region at once. Therefore they make composites from several smaller pictures, which show each 'shiny' as good as it can.

Hubble however, does not have a color camera. It's essentially black and white. However it uses filters from a very broad range to generate a picture. Most of the colors are added later to clear up the picture or to compensate for our eyes' lack of seeing IR and UV light. They are sometimes representative of the real light that is send out/reflected from the body.

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Long story short, Stars do have that many colors, hubble doesn't record them though. These colors are added later. this is how the universe looks

Stars yes, nebulas no

We can not see the differance in the color of stars, and even then it is only slight shades of orange or red, or white or blue. Booooooooooooring, if you ask me.

ZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzz....

Hey my opinion is clear, dont confuse me with facts.

A Great Emperor realizes that in order to build a death star one must first
fool the public to believe in him and fund his "well meaning" space program
so he can get the weapon constructed before they know youre doing it. So make lots o
shiny an' cool pictures and say hushhush when they ask whats the point in megatonrange
reactors in a "peaceful" station eh.

Man do i need tea or something to snap out of my delusions of grandeur.

I am drinking some tea right now, its quite good. I think its Indian Black Tea, not completely sure...

And shhhh.... who told yo my secret plan   

Theyre ignorant drones lets just not mention if after this aye?

You could hire the Umbra Latrocinium to do your shadowops for a nice sum
of credits you know, all we need is few asteroids for bases and stealthed DD's
of unpredecented EW capability to get rid of those pesky "democrats". How is it?


Umbra Latrocinium = Shadow Mercenaries, may be interpreted as Hired Assasins too hehe
Im drinking a rather excuisite bland of tea, contains black tea, pineapple, strawberry,
cherry and raspberry.

Wow, interesting blend, i never have more then two flavors in mine.

And if you join now, you can get the piece of Asia that Schem thinks hes and his "Hyper Power" is too good for.

As for your pay, we shall see. I want results first!!

Hmm, schem and democrats, i wonder what a 60megaton range thermonuclear warhead would
do in the middle of their capital...

Never under estimate assasins, halfpay up front and then you get the results,
after all if he doesnt complete then you dont have to worry about him again.
Oh and we dont want Asia we just want few orbiting asteroids to ourselves AND
we never show where they are.. one might after all be tempted to make a pre-emptive strike hehe.

I see this may get intresting.
(Try Nordqvist teas if theres any in the stores near you.)