Random Interesting Picture

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:49:48 -0600, rk
wrote:

http://klabs.org/home_page/images/S65-63220.jpg

No particular reason, just ran into this one and thought it was a nice shot.
And on-topic!!

Gemini 7 as seen from Gemini 6A. Great picture.

On the same subject, the NASA NTRS server has a few new Gemini PDF's
since my last posting:


Flight investigation and analysis of alleviation of communication
blackout by water injection during Gemini 3 reentry
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971064870.pdf

Investigation of water injection on models of Gemini vehicle and
resulting predictions for GT-3 reentry communications experiment
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971064866.pdf

Gemini program mission report, Gemini 5
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975067642.pdf

The Gemini Program: Physical sciences experiments summary
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972003207.pdf


Rusty

rk wrote:
http://klabs.org/home_page/images/S65-63220.jpg

No particular reason, just ran into this one and thought it was a nice shot.
And on-topic!!


No offense, but could you maybe warn us if the pic is that large (nearly
7000x7000 pixels)? It nearly crashed my poor little laptop... thanks

Bob Martin wrote:


No offense, but could you maybe warn us if the pic is that large
(nearly 7000x7000 pixels)? It nearly crashed my poor little laptop...
thanks


It filled up the empty space on my C drive without completing downloading.

Pat

rk wrote:

It filled up the empty space on my C drive without completing downloading.



Sorry about that, it's 7.8 megs, I didn't think that that would be too bad
(OK, now I have a cable modem, crime against humanity a few months back :-).



It was a good incentive to flush out the cache on C drive anyway; I'm
going to download it later today.
This must be some large and detailed picture.

Pat

In message , rk
writes
http://klabs.org/home_page/images/S65-63220.jpg

No particular reason, just ran into this one and thought it was a nice shot.
And on-topic!!

6870 x 6870 pixels and 7.62 MB. That's a big picture!
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

6870 x 6870 pixels and 7.62 MB. That's a big picture!


I tried it again, again it filled the C drive up without downloading
completely; There must be some arbitrary file size limit in the
Netscape section of the C drive.
I am now going to defrag the drive and try it yet again.
A wonderful piece of news today, one of my favorite authors committed
suicide:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/?GT1=6190
By pulling a Hemingway; although his suicide would not be completely
unexpected, the bullet through the head part was a bit too tame...I was
expecting a dynamite suicide while riding a Great White shark up the
Potomac.

Pat

In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:

I was
expecting a dynamite suicide while riding a Great White shark up the
Potomac.

Well, no doubt he didn't want to get taken out by some Capital cop or
even a Secret Service sniper like some low-class punk before he could
make a dramatic exit.

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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

6870 x 6870 pixels and 7.62 MB. That's a big picture!


I tried it again, again it filled the C drive up without downloading
completely; There must be some arbitrary file size limit in the
Netscape section of the C drive.
I am now going to defrag the drive and try it yet again.
A wonderful piece of news today, one of my favorite authors committed
suicide:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/?GT1=6190
By pulling a Hemingway; although his suicide would not be completely
unexpected, the bullet through the head part was a bit too tame...I was
expecting a dynamite suicide while riding a Great White shark up the
Potomac.

Pat


Ah,
yeah, its 7.62 meg compressed.. but its its 141 meg -decompressed- (at
24bit colour)
a lot of software doesnt handle images that size so well :-)
nice image though..
Russ.

Herb Schaltegger wrote:


Well, no doubt he didn't want to get taken out by some Capital cop or
even a Secret Service sniper like some low-class punk before he could
make a dramatic exit.



Dead man switch....sniper shoots at him, Hunter and shark vanish in a
fountain of blood, bone, cartilage, and entrails.
Nearby sightseers are wounded by flying shark teeth...some by flying
Thompson teeth and peyote buttons. ;-)

Pat

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:27:56 -0600, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:

I was
expecting a dynamite suicide while riding a Great White shark up the
Potomac.

Well, no doubt he didn't want to get taken out by some Capital cop or
even a Secret Service sniper like some low-class punk before he could
make a dramatic exit.

....What makes Gonzo's death really tragic is that there's rumors
floating about that Garry Trudeau's going to kill off Duke for real
this time, now that his inspiration's kicked his own bucket.

OM

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