You will not believe this! o_o

Cyberlizard · **on:** May 06, 2006, 02:27:46 AM

I was just out stargazing with the huge, $800 telescope my mom got me for my birthday last year and I found the first planet I had ever spotted with it!

Guess which planet it was.

Malte279 · **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2006, 02:32:05 AM

Venus?

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That one is clearly visible with the eye only, so I suppose you are talking of a planet not so easily visible. Uranus?

Cyberlizard · **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2006, 02:35:25 AM

Actually it is one of the visible ones.

Jupiter. It isn't the first time I've seen Jupiter in the sky. But this is the first time I've seen it with detail. o_o You can't see the red spot, but you can see the orange and cream strips of cloud that make up the atmosphere. There are also little stars close to it too, the moons of Jupiter. It was beautiful. Just beautiful.

Malte279 · **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2006, 04:01:03 AM

I just returned from a supermarket. One of the papers lying there (not the one I bought) had an article on the first page which mentioned that Jupiter was particularly well visible and beautiful last night.

Petrie. · **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2006, 06:39:27 AM

Darn...I thought the joke was you saw Uranus.

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2006, 08:34:39 AM

Man I want a telescope so badly. I've only dreamed of seeing the planets close up like that

Cyberlizard · **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2006, 10:59:54 AM

Hopefully you can save up $800 to get a good, honking telescope.

But the experience it's totally worth your money.

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #7 on:** May 06, 2006, 03:18:32 PM

To be honest, that's actually been a life long dream of mine. I've always imagined what everything would look like up there; the real thing!

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But the experience it's totally worth your money.

Haha, oh yea!

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But $800 hehe, I don't even have a job yet

Hopefully I can get one sometime soon...although there are other bigger problems that are in the way :unsure:

Cyberlizard · **Reply #8 on:** May 06, 2006, 03:27:03 PM

Oh.

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I don't even have a job yet

Me neither.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #9 on:** May 07, 2006, 01:42:49 AM

Is it just me, or do science threads seem to die out fast in this forum?

Cyberlizard · **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2006, 01:56:21 AM

Oh, well. Since no one responded I guess this topic is officially dead. :blink:

Malte279 · **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2006, 03:53:41 AM

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Oh, well. Since no one responded I guess this topic is officially dead.

You are quickly giving up a thread that exists for little more than 24 hours (and got more respnses in that time than many other threads), don't you? After all this is a forum, not a chatroom, which is why responses shouldn't be expected in a minute tact (your last two posts are just 14 (!) minutes apart! Anyway, for a thread to continue something interesting needs to be posted, something people can respond to.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2006, 03:57:56 AM

Sorry. I just get really down when someone looks at my topic and then doesn't write anything, especially if my post was a question directed at the user who just skipped my topic. It makes me feel like I'm being ignored. Also whenever I log on when there's a majority of users, they all leave just minutes after I'm on. I think that might just be a coincidence, or I'm just very unlucky.

Petrie. · **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2006, 08:18:06 AM

^ Largely unlucky...we all live in different time zones, so we certainly can have places to go and things to do the moment you happen to come on. Very often I'm always on by myself. It sure isn't because people want to ignore me.

Littlefoot Fan · **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2006, 11:34:50 AM

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especially if my post was a question directed at the user who just skipped my topic

Sorry, is this about the post you made? I saw it but I didn't really know what to say at the moment and had to go

Sadly, the big problem I have is homesickness

which is why I had to drop out of school and get homeschooled. Yea I know, it's pretty pathetic but it's true :cry2

Another big problem is that I'm a really shy person which is why working at McDonalds or something would be extremely difficult

I hope I can overcome these problems before it's time to get a job

Cyberlizard · **Reply #15 on:** May 07, 2006, 11:52:11 AM

Awww, that's too bad.

I hope you DO get one soon.