CheapAstronomy

Started as a place to put my "Astronomy on a budget" pics, now just read and comment at random. Texas transplant from the Free State of Florida. Marine Vet

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@MomsPostingLs @japan_nobunaga IYKYK

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@EarthGang Hilarious! That's my daughter 🤣

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I'm thankful that our system of free enterprise has fostered a massive wave of innovation. I took this picture of the Bubble Nebula (C11) on a cheap $500 telescope (Seestar S50). The scope found it automatically, took 30 second exposures, and combined the images to bring out the beautiful details. 10 years ago this would have required hours of my time doing every step manually and would have needed about $5000 worth of equipment.

Truly amazing!

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@aestheticsguyy

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@MMattamous @LibertyCappy

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@curraheevet @ThrillaRilla369 It sure was expensive to be that "cool" 🤣

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@MrsNorthie @ThrillaRilla369 https://t.co/qprYvUZfTv

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@curraheevet @ThrillaRilla369 I was one of the first customers of Google paid search and I got an invite to gmail from Sergei Brin. He was my account manager for about 3 months. He used to call me every Friday.

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@DatahawkJSJ @ThrillaRilla369 So sorry for your loss, your dad was a hero.

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@0xagonally @ThrillaRilla369 I always had ISDN somewhere (usually a client would give me permission) so off hours I'd dial into one of the maintenance PCs and get much faster speed and could queue downloads.

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@0xagonally @ThrillaRilla369 THAT is OG. Repect, man.

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@ThrillaRilla369 Anyone else remember the AOL discs where you got 50 hours on AOL dialup for free? You could connect with them and signup your fake account, then login with your real AOL account. Bonus, when AOL had "bring your own access," it only cost $5 per month.

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@DatahawkJSJ @ThrillaRilla369 Semper Fi to your father. I was Radio Recon. He probably had some interpreters on his missions, by the late 80s the Marine Corps sent a few of us to get trained to fully embed into those teams. Crazy times.

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I put myself though college networking computers for small offices to share printers and and ISDN line. Before I showed up they each had their own printer and their own modem. 25 phone lines for 15 people at about $100 per line. I got them down to 5 lines plus ISDN (2 lines) for a savings of about $1800 per month.

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@DatahawkJSJ @ThrillaRilla369 My wayward youth was spent being a glorified script kiddie. Then I did Sigint in the military and got to do it for real - with satellites. ;)

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Me too. Connected it to The Well sometimes. Little known trivia, most houses built in the 1970s had 4 phone lines and they were usually all provisioned at the neighborhood switch. When I was 14 I found out that just by connecting the unused lines in the box on the side of the house I could get a dial tone. I hooked by 300 baud modem to it and it worked. Free long distance too.

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@TexanAngry @ThrillaRilla369 @drinkonsaturday The first picture I downloaded over the non-military Internet took an hour. It was a drawing of the Wolfenstein 3D logo.

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@ThrillaRilla369 Not quite, and not even AOL. The OGs had Compuserve (numbers only) or some .edu or .mil account.

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@ThatEricAlper Shooting properly

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@cjhobs84 @ThatEricAlper "Dad, did you have a remote for the TV when you were a kid?"

"I was the remote." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣