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Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Anton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:35:02 -0000

Thanks Microsoft’s http://www.ikinciel.org/

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

anthony — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:25:56 -0000

i have microsoft worldwide telescope and i saw 2 tihngs that must be flawed or a mystery of the world...on search type in:
RA:14h31m30s
DEC:+20:15:03
also
RA:23h08m23s
DEC:-29:49:07

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Kabala — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:18:56 -0000

thank you

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Cynic — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:17:27 -0000

This is late, but...

@Tom Burke: When Scoble wrote "radiation", he was probably referring to "ionizing radiation", which is the most common use of the word "radiation" according to Wikipedia.

I agree that it is a very sad commentary that he doesn't seem to understand that gamma rays and X-rays are EM radiation, just like infrared.

This is what happens when the mass media dumbs down science. "Ionizing radiation" simply becomes "radiation", and everyone forgets about non-ionizing radiation. As another example, power (measured in watts) and energy (watt-hours or joules) are often confused in the mass media. For example, this article
http://www.forbes.com/2001/...
claims that a clothes dryer uses "100 watts an hour". That's kind of like driving 60 MPH per hour, isn't it?

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Bernard J. Coombs — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:23:59 -0000

Further to my book "All creatures do go to Heaven, especially Pets - proved from the original languages of the Holy Bible." on:
www.all-creatures.org/ach I wish to send you the first chapter of my book "Beyond the beyond." which is hardly believable.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Byron Miller — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:25:10 -0000

WWT is absolutely fantastic. I think what people are missing is it puts the data into the hands of everyone - even the scientific FITS images can be pulled down without having to know apis/integrations or which website to go to at what time of day and whom to request them from.

As an amateur astronomer having a tool like this for free has finally put the universe into the hands of many more people. I hope the scope manufacturers quickly embrace it as a tool to not only allow scope controls but integrate their learning, training and user experiences into it so people can share them.

Google sky doesn't compare, doesn't have the astronomy, astrometry, photometry or science aspect to allow one to do research and publish research and access everyone elses research at the same time.

People are terrible naive about the functionality of this app. TERRIBLY.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Stress — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:55:48 -0000

I cry too because ms make things that look "beautiful" and then do sweet fuckall. Yay. For once, a complete product would be nice. Feel free to start with XP and move on to everything else. Notepad is ok.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Rafael Valdez Ley — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:58:20 -0000

Muy Interesante que tengo que hacer para obtener el programa y poder utilisar este telescopio

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Sceptic Observer — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:47:16 -0000

Trust me, you don't see what Nasa see's. That resolution of the moon is a slam dunk for me. Although I'm sure the unaware are sufficiently lulled.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

david — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:25:42 -0000

Try Slooh.com.......much better. It's not free like this one is, but it's also LVE images, not archived from other scopes. And for the price ($100/year unlimited usage), it's an unbeatable telescope investment. Trust me, I know. I've been an astronomer for almost 25 years & thr latest scope that I bought cost 10X as much as Slooh & isn't NEAR what Slooh offers. The same set-up would have run me about 15,000-20,000 $$$.

Best part too is that you can control the scopes PERSONALLY & tell them what you want to look at, then snap pics. Second best part is that you getcontrol of MULTIPLE scopes withthe yearly unlimited package. Right now we have 2 off the coast of Africa. An observatory has been rented already in Australia & the scope will be added soon. And there's 1 more, soon to be 2, getting ready to come on-line in Chile.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Dm — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:18:41 -0000

What a joke. Typical Microsoft Hype. Once everyone has it downloaded I'm sure they will start charging for it as usual. Very poor resolution. We are only 250,000 miles from the moon and in planet view that is the best they can do ? Google would let us look at all the debris we left in the Sea of Tranquility. The resolution of Earth isn't 1/100th as good as Google Earth. I am not impressed at all.....Thanks for nothing Bill !!

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Juande SantanderVela — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:37:51 -0000

Both Microsoft World Wide Telescope and Google Sky are possible by a running international effort, the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (www.ivoa.net). What Microsoft and Google have done is build massive multi-resolution caches of that data, so that wide sky queries are handled by the wide-angle cache, and the narrower queries are handled by the services themselves.

The good thing is that these visualization tools are very good in themselves for diffusion and vulgarisation, while scientific tools such as the Aladin Sky Atlas (http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/) also become available to anyone… with data accesible by everyone.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

jeffman — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:15:38 -0000

HEY!!!
http://www.stellarium.org/s...

Open source is better than Microsoft.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

SlickJen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:43:48 -0000

Wait till Monday till you see the demo! Then you'll know
OH, you don't believe??...Wait till April till you see the beta version! Then you'll know
OH, you still don't believe?? Wait till June for the proper release! Then you'll know
OH, you still don't believe??.... You're a dumbass and don't understand!

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:51:49 -0000

Well, 167 comments...

Crying worked for Hillary too, when in doubt, pout.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

macbeach — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:59:36 -0000

"2. It runs only on Windows. It’s coded in C#/.NET, you’ll meet the developer in our video and you’ll hear more about that then."

I'm shocked. Totally shocked.

I think I tried Celestia around 2000, but I see the copyright on the web site dates to 2001 so it might have been as late as that.

I tried it on Linux. It didn't require any special software or hardware. Faster video cards were nice, but not essential. Maybe if you had seen it back then you would have cried.

But there was no PR for it. No flashy video released months in advance hyping it up.

Think how much sooner the kids of the world would have had something like this were they not waiting for Microsoft to release it.

That's what makes me cry.

I remember being able to switch from one point of view to another (on Earth or elsewhere). Being able to fly anywhere in the visible galaxy at light speed or beyond, improving your intuition about starting and stopping in space as opposed to earthbound vehicles.

Will the MS version do some new things? Probably. Is the concept essentially new? No. Is there any reason it should require Vista? Yes, it's less a Research product and more a Marketing tool.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Mark Benson (MDBlog) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:06:11 -0000

I watched the demo from TED and I can totally see why it brought tears to your eyes man. There's nothing more beautiful than the universe itself, and to have such a powerful and simple way of bringing it to everyone really is just wonderful...

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

David McConville — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:23:31 -0000

Robert - check out screenshots of the Uniview visualization platform at http://www.scalingtheuniver.... It was developed through the Hayden Planetarium initially along with Partiview, and is installed at numerous digital planetariums and portable dome around the world. It visualizes the NASA Digital Universe Atlas, enabling interactive representations of the entire observable Universe out to the Cosmic Microwave Background. Unfortunately there's no downloadable version, so you'll need to head to one of their installations to see it.

I give Tours of the Universe with this platform within portable immersive domes regularly - as do numerous others - and the response always includes gasping and crying front wide-eyed and slackjawed observers.

Does WWT provide true 3D + Time for the objects? The TED video looks like zooming and panning, but is it a navigable 3D space? Trying to understand the distinctions.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Robert Scoble — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:10:20 -0000

Stellarium Lover: Stellarium is cool, but it's not the World Wide Telescope. You really need to watch the video on Monday before you try to hype up Stellarium on the WWT's back.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Stellarium Lover — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:56:34 -0000

I cried as well in 2003 when I first downloaded Stellarium. I'm sure you would have known this freesoftware project earlier, you would not have this reaction for microsoft's product: their demo at TED give me the impression nothing is new with this product.

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

your daddy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:17:17 -0000

Come on man, these galaxies are millions of light years away.. this information is very outdated.

P.S. You are the Joan Rivers of the Internet!

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Tom Burke — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:00:29 -0000

"It is such a shame that Carl Sagan didn’t get to see this."

But he saw billions & billions of other things. :-)

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

Arjun — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:33:35 -0000

Did the kid's reactions remind anyone else of 2 girls 1 cup?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

everythingimnot — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:01:08 -0000

http://everythingimnot.word...

Re: What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

sharifisher — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:52:27 -0000

Ithink it sounds pretty cool.