Posted on 12/08/2005 3:16:16 PM PST by blam
Start with the moon. There is a mass of real estate right next door going to waste. Conquering the moon will necessitate development of everything we will need to move on out without further delay. The moon is only three days away by slow boat. America was 30 days away from Europe and that didn't stop anybody.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
That's, like, so last week . . .
Plasma cosmology is
were the cool kids play.
Gravity gets swapped
for electromagnetics
in Alfvén's model.
Galactic centers
might just be clustered stars, not
singularities.
In other words, the news isn't that the Milky War is a bared spiral galaxy, the news is that the Milky Way's bar is light-years longer than scientists thought, just like a swirl of caramel and chocolate. Seriously, sub-space is just getting bigger, so what's wrong in that spatial dimension?
Does everyone understand what Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is?
It has something to do with very large slide-rules from what I understand.
I know what VLBI is, but I'm sure not everyone does. :-)
VLBI is a technique used by astronomers to electronically link separated radio telescopes together, so they
work together, as single instrument with
high resolving power. It could help us see more patterns,
that would help map the spatial universe.
Sure.
VLBI is a geometric technique: it measures the time difference between the arrival at two Earth-based antennas of a radio wavefront emitted by a distant quasar. Using large numbers of time difference measurements from many quasars observed with a global network of antennas, VLBI determines the inertial reference frame defined by the quasars and simultaneously the precise positions of the antennas. Because the time difference measurements are precise to a few picoseconds, VLBI determines the relative positions of the antennas to a few millimeters and the quasar positions to fractions of a milliarcsecond. Since the antennas are fixed to the Earth, their locations track the instantaneous orientation of the Earth in the inertial reference frame. Relative changes in the antenna locations from a series of measurements indicate tectonic plate motion, regional deformation, and local uplift or subsidence.
http://lupus.gsfc.nasa.gov/brochure/bintro.html
You want that in English? With fries and a Coke?
Bush's fault
I'm not worried...
But don't they even take the bones out?
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They wouldn't be crunchy.
If it happens, it is going to happen in a million years...
Exactly...
Sort of like a Merry Go Round in the Sky/Universe
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