Show off your spotty desktops!

Purge · 08-06-2004

Donno how common this type of thread emerges but heres mine:

http://home.comcast.net/~ruralclass/desktop.png

**Tachikoma** · 08-06-2004

Nothing terribly interesting:

**cahaz** · 08-06-2004

great.

this one paper is in french btw , do you know what the word is meaning?

**the_steadster** · 08-06-2004

Heres mine. Very cluttered, my desktop is just a dumping ground for me. The pic is one from nasa, taken from the moon of the Earth rising - I thought it was pretty cool..

**cahaz** · 08-06-2004

a bit of topic, sorry , but why there's no stars in the space?
oh, yeah because it wasn't reall when they said they where on moon. :smt043

**the_steadster** · 08-06-2004

I read a long winded reply to this, i'll try to find it somewhere...

Got it:

Good: The stars are there! They're just too faint to be seen.

This is usually the first thing HBs talk about when discussing the Hoax. That amazes me, as it's the silliest assertion they make. However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. Therefore we should see them from the Moon as well.

I'll say this here now, and return to it many times: the Moon is not the Earth. Conditions there are weird, and our common sense is likely to fail us.

The Moon's surface is airless. On Earth, our thick atmosphere scatters sunlight, spreading it out over the whole sky. That's why the sky is bright during the day. Without sunlight, the air is dark at night, allowing us to see stars.

On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark. Even when the Sun is high off the horizon during full day, the sky near it will be black. If you were standing on the Moon, you would indeed see stars, even during the day.

So why aren't they in the Apollo pictures? Pretend for a moment you are an astronaut on the surface of the Moon. You want to take a picture of your fellow space traveler. The Sun is low off the horizon, since all the lunar landings were done at local morning. How do you set your camera? The lunar landscape is brightly lit by the Sun, of course, and your friend is wearing a white spacesuit also brilliantly lit by the Sun. To take a picture of a bright object with a bright background, you need to set the exposure time to be fast, and close down the aperture setting too; that's like the pupil in your eye constricting to let less light in when you walk outside on a sunny day.

So the picture you take is set for bright objects. Stars are faint objects! In the fast exposure, they simply do not have time to register on the film. It has nothing to do with the sky being black or the lack of air, it's just a matter of exposure time. If you were to go outside here on Earth on the darkest night imaginable and take a picture with the exact same camera settings the astronauts used, you won't see any stars!

It's that simple. Remember, this the usually the first and strongest argument the HBs use, and it was that easy to show wrong. Their arguments get worse from here.

HB's are hoax believers - This description was taken from http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Also, in case anyones interested, i got the picture from http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html Only problem is that they aren't quite wallpaper size, but still very impressive

**Alien Workshop** · 08-06-2004

- EDIt -

Changed

**Johnny** · 08-06-2004

I still haven't installed everything after the upgrade, so don't strange the lack of icons on the desktop. :smt023 Still need to install tons of stuff, including Dreamweaver, Photoshop, DevC++, ...

RIIIIIIIDGE RACER!!

:smt040

**SilverBolt** · 08-07-2004

Wallpaper deleted at the request that someone may be punished at school for looking at porn :smt023

**Paulo** · 08-07-2004

Originally Posted by SilverBolt

For posting purposes i took one of my non-x-rated wallapers

I would say thank you but i dunno that wallpapers scary!

Purge · 08-07-2004

Originally Posted by Paulo

Originally Posted by SilverBolt

For posting purposes i took one of my non-x-rated wallapers

I would say thank you but i dunno that wallpapers scary!

he he I love it though, sadly living at home I couldn't use it, just another year or so ^^;

**Evangelion-01** · 08-07-2004

Originally Posted by Paulo

Originally Posted by SilverBolt

For posting purposes i took one of my non-x-rated wallapers

I would say thank you but i dunno that wallpapers scary!

LOL indeed

Greatsaintlouis · 08-07-2004

Here's my current one, I rotate manually about every week or so, whenever I get bored. My desktop is usually a lot worse than this, as it's a bit of a miserable dumping ground for all my downloaded crap.

Thanks, Dreamcast GD-ROM omake! :smt023

Yceman · 08-07-2004

My desktop is only a blue background with only 6 or 7 icons and 1 of those quickstart buttons, so I don't think it's worth a whole screenshot. Most of the time there's a program maximized on the screen, so I barely see the desktop.

**WolverineDK** · 08-07-2004

hmmm nice desktops guys :smt023 :-)

**Evangelion-01** · 08-07-2004

i just keep it simple, dont have a pic coz i turned all the useless services off and the name of the shortcuts have blue around it and it just looks bad.