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Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands
Springer ^ | 5/10/12

Posted on 05/10/2012 10:10:10 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: GraceG
Morons couldn’t understand gravity because their assumption about the dimension below space time is wrong.

Well, we are all morons as none of us understand. Perhaps because we are reaching 'too far'.

As another poster said, We don't really completely understand Gravity and Magnetism, yet we claim to be able to define the nature of the cosmos.

81 posted on 05/11/2012 7:42:59 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: GraceG

P.S. In support of your space/time rubber sheet comment, consider that the ‘description’ given of a ‘black hole’ is much like your ‘rubber sheet’ and very two-dimensional and highly improbable.

Anyway, all theories are just attempts to explain what we don’t yet understand. Most of the time, we are wrong. The few times we are right are what make up the body of our science.


82 posted on 05/11/2012 7:53:07 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: ichabod1
and the fact that we could meet someone in space but be billions of years apaart in time.

Just the other day, scientists saw a supernova explosion as it happened. Well, except that it happened 2 billion years ago.

'When' it is, depends really on 'Where' you are, doesn't it?

Either that or 'when' is truly meaningless, and only 'where' and 'who' are important.

83 posted on 05/11/2012 7:57:32 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Pontiac
These meteors have formations that resemble fossilized bacteria.

Bacteria are everywhere. Viruses too. They are a major and primary component for all life in the Universe. They are both really tough, and can survive anywhere. Viruses are dead anyway, until they find food.

84 posted on 05/11/2012 8:05:09 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: William Tell
I think the 'aether' concept has merit, but that their premises about it were wrong.

We are circulating around the burning 'wick' of a candle, and we are in the 'flame envelope'. Is the 'behavior' of a planet different outside this 'flame' than one inside?

Is the effect they tested for altered by the Sun's 'aether' field ? Or is there an 'aether' permeating the entire Universe, and it's 'behavior' yet beyond our understanding?

85 posted on 05/11/2012 8:17:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: ichabod1
I think I got it from Ancient Aliens.

"That's my line."


86 posted on 05/11/2012 8:21:18 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2; cripplecreek
There are no volcanoes, active or dead, on Mars.

No?

Try this Martian volcano:

The largest of the volcanoes in the Tharsis Montes region, as well as all known volcanoes in the solar system, is Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano 624 km (374 mi) in diameter (approximately the same size as the state of Arizona), 25 km (16 mi) high, and is rimmed by a 6 km (4 mi) high scarp. A caldera 80 km (50 mi) wide is located at the summit of Olympus Mons. To compare, the largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano 10 km (6.3 mi) high and 120 km (75 mi) across. The volume of Olympus Mons is about 100 times larger than that of Mauna Loa.

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/atlas/olympus-mons.html

87 posted on 05/11/2012 8:23:34 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

OK, you got me. Shouldn’t have said ‘dead’. And for all we know, Mount Olympus may be the result of a large electrical exchange between two planetary bodies and not a volcano at all. Notice how the ‘pits’ are clustered around the perimeter of the volcano ‘top’? Ever seen a spot weld through a microscope ?

Can you show me any live volcanoes?


88 posted on 05/11/2012 8:38:45 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

OK I’ll bite. How “massive” an amount of energy are you hypothesizing?

If it’s so massive why aren’t we harvesting it?

Has this theory been published anywhere?

All the references I can find show earth’s core is heated by latent heat of planetary formation, friction from convection currents in the mantle, heat from phase change as the solid core expands, and the big one -radioactive decay of isotopes in the earth’s interior.


89 posted on 05/11/2012 9:18:57 PM PDT by Go_Raiders (The wrong smoke detector might just kill you - http://www.theworldfiresafetyfoundation.org)
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To: UCANSEE2

It’s a volcano.

Feel free to do some research, as there is a substantial amount.


90 posted on 05/11/2012 9:19:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: UCANSEE2

OK I’ll bite. How “massive” an amount of energy are you hypothesizing?

If it’s so massive why aren’t we harvesting it?

Has this theory been published anywhere?

All the references I can find show earth’s core is heated by latent heat of planetary formation, friction from convection currents in the mantle, heat from phase change as the solid core expands, and the big one -radioactive decay of isotopes in the earth’s interior.


91 posted on 05/11/2012 9:20:03 PM PDT by Go_Raiders (The wrong smoke detector might just kill you - http://www.theworldfiresafetyfoundation.org)
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To: dragnet2


92 posted on 05/11/2012 11:11:06 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Go_Raiders
OK I’ll bite. How “massive” an amount of energy are you hypothesizing?

Enough to heat the core, create a magnetic field, and possibly make the planet rotate. A miniscule amount compared to what is available.

If it’s so massive why aren’t we harvesting it?

Because most of our energy 'capture' is based on an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny part of the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum, and even that we are inefficient at converting.

Has this theory been published anywhere?

Probably. It seems obvious.

What do you think generates the ozone, and what creates the 'hole' in it ?

93 posted on 05/11/2012 11:20:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: dragnet2
It’s a volcano.

Which one?

94 posted on 05/11/2012 11:21:28 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2
I would suggest that 'dark energy' was just a theory used to explain why the galaxy mass/gravitational pull calculations didn't work out.

Same is true for dark matter, I suspect.

As it turns out, they are seeing that there is just a lot more 'mass' lying around than they had ever imagined, or could see.

Well, no, we aren't "seeing" this matter. We are projecting its existence to explain anomalies between our observations and our theories.

Saying that we are "seeing" this matter is similar to claiming that anthropogenic global warming is out of control because that's what the computers project.

Theories are not facts, they're just theories. Dark matter/energy and AGW may turn out to be facts, but at the moment they're just theories.

95 posted on 05/12/2012 5:39:18 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: UCANSEE2

I should also point out that we have yet to observe the existence of a single dark planet, yet these guys are proposing their total mass exceeds that of the stars in our galaxy. That’s a remarkable jump.

It’s saying not only that unicorns exist, but that they outnumber people.


96 posted on 05/12/2012 5:42:34 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: UCANSEE2
Many of the hypotheses and assumptions in the past fifty years concerning the development of planetary systems have been demolished in many respects by the recent exoplanet discoveries. Whereas it was formerly thought that the stellar winds would remove the lighter gaseous elements from the inner planets to be swept up by the outer planets to produce Jovian class gas giants, we are now finding many gas giant and super-giant planets in orbits comparable to our Mercury and even closer. Once again, experiment and discovery are demonstrating how the real world is so often stranger than human imagination.
97 posted on 05/12/2012 6:32:50 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: UCANSEE2

The super volcanoes in the major uplift region are the result of the major impact event which reshaped all of Mars. The force of the impact produced enough hydrostatic forces in theplanet to uplift the surface of the planet opposite the impact region. The volcanoes went dormant as the interior of Mars re-solidified after the impact.

The Moon or Luna is similarly unbalanced because of what appears to have been the collision which produced the present form of the Earth and the Moon or Terra and Luna.


98 posted on 05/12/2012 6:47:54 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: UCANSEE2

The super volcanoes in the major uplift region are the result of the major impact event which reshaped all of Mars. The force of the impact produced enough hydrostatic forces in theplanet to uplift the surface of the planet opposite the impact region. The volcanoes went dormant as the interior of Mars re-solidified after the impact.

The Moon or Luna is similarly unbalanced because of what appears to have been the collision which produced the present form of the Earth and the Moon or Terra and Luna.


99 posted on 05/12/2012 7:13:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: UCANSEE2
There are no volcanoes, active or dead, on Mars.

No?

Try this Martian volcano:

for all we know, Mount Olympus may be the result of a large electrical exchange between two planetary bodies and not a volcano at all.

It’s a volcano.

Feel free to do some research, as there is a substantial amount of data, which clearly proves this is a volcano.

Which one?

Why are you playing stupid games?

Based on your own comments, you clearly have no a clue here, yet you run around here beating your drum like ya know what your talking about.

I suggest you do some research prior to posting comments.

100 posted on 05/12/2012 9:29:02 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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