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NASA Probe Discovers 'Alien' Matter From Beyond Our Solar System (4 types of alien atoms)
SPACE.com ^
| 1/31/12
| Denise Chow
Posted on 01/31/2012 2:13:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NASA / GSFC:
Using the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), NASA has sampled the galactic wind that has traveled from outside our solar system. Four types of atoms were found to be different from what we have in our Solar System.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: alien; atoms; discovers; gfsc; gsfc; ibex; matter; nasa; probe; solarsystem
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To: NormsRevenge
One of those things I’ve pondered myself over the years. I’m assuming there are all kinds of exotic elements in our universe that are unknown in our neighborhood.
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01/31/2012 2:17:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:22:06 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:22:30 PM PST
by
Wuli
To: Paladin2
We’re overburdened with governmentium.
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:23:46 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Wuli; cripplecreek
It’s blowin’ in the galactic wind, yaknow ..
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:27:54 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: Paladin2
Unobtainium?
Isn't that the stuff that can be canceled out by goshdarnitonium?
To: cripplecreek
Im assuming there are all kinds of exotic elements in our universe that are unknown in our neighborhood. Actually, it's pretty unlikely that there are different elements, or even different compounds. These things generally exist because their energy state is lower than some other combination of the same particles.
It's sort of cute that NASA made a movie about this instead of publishing a paper
It's also cute that the folks who tell us where the heavier elements (I think from Lithium on up.) that we observe here on earth came from, say it was from stars that died a long, LONG, time ago. In other words, the conventional wisdom is that almost everything we observe had its origins outside our solar system.
ML/NJ
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01/31/2012 2:32:59 PM PST
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ml/nj
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
I wonder how long it would take a satellite, with a plutonium generator and a leading-edge Hall Effect ion engine or VASIMIR engine, to travel to the boundary layer of the solar system where the solar wind ends and the galactic winds begin?
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:35:44 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: NormsRevenge
Perhaps Another source for Illudium Pu-36...
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:40:56 PM PST
by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: NormsRevenge
Don't touch it!..................
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:46:28 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
To: NormsRevenge
Budget time. Expect to see the ATF agents with a big pile of guns on a table soon.
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01/31/2012 2:47:12 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
(scrap copper is more than $3.00 a pound. wind generators are full of copper)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I believe Daedalus was to take about 50 years to reach Alpha Centauri with a VASIMIR drive at something like 12% light speed.
Seems like the last I read (a few weeks ago) that Voyager was something like 109 AU from the sun now and my likely faulty calculations put Alpha C at about 280,000 AU from here.
New Horizons is currently 23 AU from earth with another 10 AU to go before its Pluto flyby in 2015.
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:50:34 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
01/31/2012 2:54:14 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
Ya think???
But VASIMIR and ion engine technology is making it slightly smaller. All I want is a relatively quick way to get around the solar system.
Once VASIMIR is perfected we’ll be able to get to Mars in as little as 39 days.
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01/31/2012 3:05:27 PM PST
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Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: NormsRevenge
NASA is still doing amazing things, just not in the manned program that was ruined by politicians.
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posted on
01/31/2012 3:11:42 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
We've got to move manufacturing into space because bigger really is better in space but you can't get it off the ground. That's going to require the ability to launch at will and not once every few months.
Daedalus next to a Saturn V
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01/31/2012 3:14:41 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Moonman62
NASA should concentrate on the pathfinding/prospecting missions like Louis and Clark. We need to ditch the outer space treaty for industry to really be interested.
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posted on
01/31/2012 3:17:09 PM PST
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cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
Let’s first invent a cheap way to get to LEO.
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posted on
01/31/2012 3:18:46 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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