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Friday Five, late but what the heck

Yeah, it’s not Friday. Hey, I was on vacation on Friday.

Don’t know if I can come up with 5 for all of these. I’ll just list what I think of.

1. List your five favorite beverages.
Coke, Dad’s Root Beer, orange juice, Big Rock Traditional Ale, Newcastle Brown Ale

2. List your five favorite websites.
In no particular order,
Slashdot.org
User Friendly
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Calvin and Hobbes
Science Daily

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
Corn nuts
M&Ms
Coffee Crisp
Old Dutch Ketchup potato chips
Chips Ahoy

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Hmm, don’t really play too many board or card games anymore…
Risk
Magic: The Gathering

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
Unreal Tournament 2003
AD&D
Palladium
GURPS
Nethack

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Stunning example of retrograde motion

More pretty pictures to look at from APOD.

This is a stunning image of retrograde motion of not one planet, but two planets!. Both Mars and Uranus are shown going through their motions.

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The Face on Mars

APOD has a cool new picture of what that Face on Mars really looks like.

APOD Face on Mars

It still has a face-like appearance, although it does look like more of a natural, not artificially created structure.

The big high resolution version of the photo makes a really cool desktop background.

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Farewell Voyager

APOD’s got a pretty cool representation of what Voyager 1 is about to encounter at the edge of the solar system.

90 AU out, and moving at over 3 AU/year. That’s over 448793612 km/year (278866864 miles/year) or 51197 km/h (31819 miles/h) or 14 km/s (8.8 miles/s). Now that’s fast.

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Favourite websites

One of my favourite websites is APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day. I’ve been visiting it daily almost since it started in 1993, back in the infancy of the web. Even after all these years, it remains one of my favourite sites, and on my list of sites I check daily (even on weekends). Every day, there’s a spectacular new astrophoto to look at, and an explanation with plenty of hyperlinks to follow. Some of the pictures I save and use as desktop backgrounds. This is one of the oldest continuously operating and most enduring non-commercial websites I’ve encountered, and I hope it sticks around for many more years.