User talk:Tarl N.

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Patriots fans

I think I recall you telling me that you're a Patriots fan. Well, what kind of Patriots fan are you? Because I'm not sure the Patriots even HAD many fans before Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady. They were awful and on the verge of moving, yet no one seems to remember they existed before the 1990s. Mk8mlyb (talk) 21:07, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

@Mk8mlyb: I've followed them since the mid 80's with Steve Grogan, back when they were known as the patsies. I followed when Kiam bought out the Sullivan brothers, had the the Lisa Olson incident, followed by the truly awful 1990 season. I thought it was good when he sold them to Orthwein, but less so when it became clear Orthwein wanted to move them to St. Louis. I was happy to see Orthwein's awful season paid back with Drew Bledsoe, but was even happier when Kraft bought him out after it was clear he wasn't going to be allowed to move the team. Tarl N. (discuss) 22:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Well then, I'm glad to see you're enjoying the Patriots win and establish themselves as one of the best dynasties the league has ever seen. But if there's one reason I'm not happy about the Patriots winning, it's what happened to Drew Bledsoe. Until Tom Brady, Drew Bledsoe was unarguably the best quarterback the Patriots had ever had, even taking them to the Super Bowl in 1996, and he was one of the best QBs of the 1990s, period. And how did they repay him when he got injured and replaced by Brady? They threw him out and traded him to the Bills after the season ended because Brady was the guy they wanted at QB. And we all know what happened after that: the Patriots become a dynasty and tear up the league and Bledsoe gets benched for Tony Romo until he retires in 2006. Basically, Brady and Belicheck and the Patriots achieved all their success of five Super Bowls and counting at Bledsoe's expense, their star QB and the best one they'd had up until that magical '01 season, and they proceeded to thank him for all he'd sacrificed and given for the franchise...by cutting him loose and coldly throwing him out the door without a thought. I honestly feel bad for the poor guy. You sure you don't? Mk8mlyb (talk) 05:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

@Mk8mlyb: Bledsoe wasn't thrown out. After Bledsoe's chest injury, through the rest of that initial season with Brady, it became obvious that Brady had taken his job. Every season, every QB has to fight to keep his job against the other QBs on the team. That happens every team, every year, for every position. It was blatantly obvious to Bledsoe and everyone else on the team that next season he wasn't going to win his job back. He could have stayed, and ended up as backup QB for a year or two. He preferred to move on to somewhere he'd be the starting QB. The team gave him control over where to be traded - including within the same division, which is normally out of the question. So he asked for the trade to the Bills. This was all carried out in the full glare of daily headlines in the Boston Globe's sports pages.

Do I feel for him? Sure. And what's more, he was a class act about it, which makes me like him even more. But in football, you don't own a job - you fight for it every year, every game. Eventually, Father Time or Uncle Luck catches up to you. Bledsoe experienced the fall all star quarterbacks eventually get - he was no longer the best QB the team had. It happens to all football players - eventually someone else arrives who is faster, stronger, or simply smarter. Tarl N. (discuss) 05:58, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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Textures of the exoplanets by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT

The vast majority of the textures, appearances and dimensions of the NASA's artistic representations are merely speculative and appear in a large number of Wikipedia articles, such as this image or here, here, here. The artist-speculative texture of Proxima Cen B by NASA is here (same texture that you told me is "actively misleading"). If the parameter of the mass radius is 1.3 times you can fix it. Download Celestia, download the NASA oficial image, fix the .ssc file with the new mass radius parameter and take screenshot. --Piquito veloz (talk) 05:37, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

The picture you reference actively states "artist's conception", which the image you added did not. The image you added provides no useful information, and indeed provides erroneous information (a claim that proxima b would be the same size as earth), and as such is a net detriment to the article. I notice you have added a bunch of similar images to other articles - they seem to all be screen captures from Celestia. That's a copyright violation, see WP:COPYVIO, and all those images will need to be deleted. Tarl N. (discuss) 05:41, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Celestia is GNU/GPL license and is compatible with CC-BY-SA and the NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT images are public domain. Fix the parameter of radius in Celestia scc file is easy, i can fix and upload new image with new radius.--Piquito veloz (talk) 05:49, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Can to see in commons the template commons:template:Free screenshot--Piquito veloz (talk) 05:54, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Artist conception of Proxima Centauri b by NASA.¹ The size of Proxima Centauri b is around 1.3 times the size of the Earth.²

New upload with fixed radius since ssc file inside of Celestia with a new radio of 8291.6 km. The problem is because to the user that has created >4000 exoplanets to Celestia, sometimes he makes mistakes because is a very hard work there. --Piquito veloz (talk) 07:33, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

You told me "Second, you don't know the original source of the images" You are wrong, I know each content of my pics from Celestia and files are free , for example, texture of Earth and clouds are imported since NASA images by Chris Laurel during 2002 (developer of Celestia). The purple background is the Planck´CMB by U.S. DATA CENTER AT IPAC (public domain) adapted since the red version. ESA and NASA images are public domain. Generic exoplanet textures are creations of AJ Tribick and other developers of Celestia with free licenses (default textures in GNU software). --Piquito veloz (talk) 01:32, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Example: my file:Kepler-22b versus Earth.jpg purple background is free, earth and clouds is free (default textures in Celestia), kepler-22b texture is free. --Piquito veloz (talk) 01:44, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

You told me: "First, there is no reason to import them from Celestia" The big reason to use Celestia is the same reason you are using Wikipedia: Wikipedia and Celestia have free licenses and very compatible, anyone can expand or improve content. For example, if someone questioned that the mean size of Proxima is 1.3 times than Earth can improve ssc file and there is the big reason Celestia is the best choice. --Piquito veloz (talk) 02:05, 7 July 2021 (UTC)