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Started by Nostromo, Aug 27, 2016, 03:31:59 PM

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#150
Most of these planets have orbits less than 10 days long... instead of 365 days like ours. Can you imagine if they rotate and are tilted on their axis like earth so that they have "seasons" like winter spring summer and fall, all in one week. In fact, the rotation period (the length of a day, 24 hours here) could be anything. Mercury rotates only once every 59 day. We could end up looking at a planet who's days are longer than their years and have a full set of seasons within a single dawn to sundown period. How weird would it be living on something like that? You planet could have 4 seasons before it even went from daylight to night and back... and from dawn to sundown could take a week or two of our time. When you left home for work you would need to bring both shorts and a winter coat. And if you wanted to "enjoy your spring weather" you could do so every morning from 10 am to noon. The concept of 24 hours or the concept of an entire year would be absolutely meaningless there.... but still I really do believe that we are and never have been alone. Life is everywhere. The universe is teeming with life that we can only imagine. As above so below. Some scientists are actually talking about our existence being a computer generated one as which would be inevitable to civilisations which are millions of years ahead of us. Who knows. It's easy for us to reject the thousands of anecdotal stories by people from every walk of life about their sometimes life changing experiences. It may just be so incomprehensible to us what it really is that we may just be better not knowing. Folk like Brian Cox and the likes are great but really know no more than anyone.



Total mindf**k that.

WHOS BOOKING TICKETS?  :D

Gilfryd

Gilfryd

#151
Small Saturn moon has most of conditions needed to sustain life, Nasa says
QuoteSpace organization finds that hydrogen erupts out of underground ocean on Enceladus, meaning it has the water, chemistry and energy sources life requires

Immortan Jonesy

Immortan Jonesy

#152
Tabby's Star (AKA "Alien Megastructure") is dimming again:

QuoteAs reported by Popular Science, Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star's light output has recently dimmed by approximately 3 percent. As with previous dimming events, this can't be easily explained by any ordinary stellar behavior.


Immortan Jonesy

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#153
QuoteScientists are a step closer to understanding the inner-workings of the universe following the laying of the first stone, and construction starting on the world's largest optical and infrared telescope.

With a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), is going to be, as its name suggests, enormous. Unlike any other before it, ELT is also designed to be an adaptive telescope and has the ability to correct atmospheric turbulence, taking telescope engineering to another level.

To mark the construction's milestone, a ceremony was held at ESO's Paranal residencia in northern Chile, close to the site of the future giant telescope which will be on top of Cerro Armazones, a 3046-metre peak mountain.


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#157
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/

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#158
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/

I'll make sure i'll be out on that day then.


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Olde

Olde

#160
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
In your own article, a professor is cited as saying "There's no such thing as a Christian numerologist" (and the person who is claimed to be one denies being one). So what you said is untrue. "Christian numerologists" don't believe "we're all gonna die on 9/23." An idiot named David Meade thinks that.

Local Trouble

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#161
Do you think Christian numerologists who believe the world is gonna end on 9/23 really care what some professor says about them?

Local Trouble


Corporal Hicks

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#163
https://www.space.com/38838-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html

Wow! 1st Interstellar Asteroid Is a Spinning Space Cigar

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