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Lonely Rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Planets with Suns
Space.com ^ | 05/18/2011 | Mike Wall

Posted on 05/18/2011 8:47:19 PM PDT by Redcitizen

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To: piytar

Dont you know...”ITS A TRAP!”


61 posted on 05/19/2011 12:09:49 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: piytar
"did I miss the /sarc tag?"

Nope, but I was making a joke. As a lonely rouge world -by definition- could not be orbiting our sun or any other. I guess it does work as sarcasm but I was going for the "it rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry" kind of silliness. /oxymoron might be closer.

Thank you for your courteous reply, nonetheless.

I have enjoyed thinking about how big the universe is since I was a kid. Some people say the enormity of what we know makes them feel insignificant in the grand scheme of things. I like to imagine I am the center of it all.

I saw at a Smithsonian exhibit a video called: The Power of Ten. Wait, rather than tell you.. this is the Internet, a video is worth a lot of words. Here is something similar.


62 posted on 05/19/2011 12:11:14 AM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: oldbill

No star to orbit = no day shift. There is no day or night on these planets by definition.

Yes, I know you were just joking but I’m a stickler for detail...


63 posted on 05/19/2011 12:11:42 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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To: Redcitizen

I am very unsurprised there would be residual matter splatter scattered throughout the universe. Wholly unsurprised.


64 posted on 05/19/2011 12:12:44 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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To: mylife

I agree...its not random...and yes there are patterns


65 posted on 05/19/2011 12:30:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (All the social libs who left last go around have crawled back...they can't help themselves)
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To: Redcitizen

Kinda tough to find ‘em, given the amount of time you have to wait for radar returns.


66 posted on 05/19/2011 12:33:26 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: null and void; mylife

The Big Bang theory was created by scientists when they first deduced that the Universe was expanding. They theorized that if it was expanding, then at one point in time, it had to be infinitely small. They were left with coming up for a reason that the infinitely small non-point started expanding, and since we are familiar with gunpowder... The Big Bang Theory was created.

Here’s the problem. We cannot see the entire Universe (it may be infinite). We cannot see the ‘known’ extent of the Universe. If galaxies are all expanding away from each other, why is it that we now see them crashing into each other ? How do we ascertain a direction of movement, when there is no reference system, other than our viewpoint from Earth?

Nothing that we see is where we see it. Many things we see no longer exist. Making the claim that the Universe is expanding is based on a lack of information and a limitation to our equipment.

For those that believe in the Big Bang Theory, I ask that they point out the center of the Universe. The point in space where it all started. Show me that, and I’ll find the theory more believable.

The Universe is, if anything, based on THE NEVERENDING HUM, and not the BIG BANG.


67 posted on 05/19/2011 12:38:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: mylife
If all the celestial bodies spun out of one mass and bang, wouldn’t they all have the same direction of spin?

I find it helps if you just imagine the stars and planets as atoms.

One wonders how did a planet form, or a star, or a solar system, or a galaxy, yet no one wonders how an atom formed. And it is made of many, many pieces.

Those pieces have different spin.

In the biblical vent, As above, so below.

68 posted on 05/19/2011 12:42:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Abin Sur; hinckley buzzard
Space is just too big for this to be likely. Even over the course of billions of years, the chance of such a planet wandering close enough to a star to be gravitationally captured is very small.

Not as small as you might think. One must remember, there are also an infinite number of planets and stars and they are all moving, and scientists now favor the idea that a wandering planet entered our solar system and crashed into at least one planet.

The Earth is pelted with tons of space dust and ice crystals every day. Just because we don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

69 posted on 05/19/2011 12:46:42 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: null and void

I could be wrong but no one really knows what goes on inside a rotating black hole...yet...we just have a hunch and how they effect light or whatever else that gets near enough to the event horizon for us to observe but the actual hole itself is a mystery except for assumed unimaginable density....i always remember the guess that one teaspoon would equal several fully loaded super tankers in our gravitational “weight” by comparison....stuck with me since I was a kid long ago

No astrophysicist here just buy big coffee table books...and sailed the oceans once


70 posted on 05/19/2011 12:50:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (All the social libs who left last go around have crawled back...they can't help themselves)
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To: buwaya
Why should matter mostly clump into stars, instead of just being out there ?

Because the Universe would be pointless without stars.

71 posted on 05/19/2011 12:51:03 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: mylife
ever hear of a catherine wheel?

great for errant children I hear..know where I can find one this side of the Tower of London

72 posted on 05/19/2011 12:54:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (All the social libs who left last go around have crawled back...they can't help themselves)
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To: Aliska
I still can't remember why when that girl in physics class touched that some kind of jar, her hair would stand out lol.

The energy that produces that effect, is what runs the Universe.

73 posted on 05/19/2011 12:55:27 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: wardaddy
we just have a hunch and how they effect light or whatever else that gets near enough to the event horizon for us to observe

So, if there is an event horizon, what happens if you approach it from behind?

Why do we assume that if we approached a black hole, we would be able to tell which is the top ... and this is where the theory falls apart, as the black hole would supposedly be spherical.

Where is up/down in space?

74 posted on 05/19/2011 1:07:00 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: wardaddy
No astrophysicist here just buy big coffee table books...and sailed the oceans once

Well, when it comes down to it, you know just as much about black holes as the top scientists.

It may be that black holes are just the core element to galaxies, and the mass and energy going into them isn't disappearing, it's just being redistributed. Just like our solar system, the galaxy may be a giant electro/plasma field and the energy flows from the core (black hole) back through space on strings of plasma, which help make the beautiful spiral galaxies we see.

The main thing to know about the stars, is that they are pretty.

75 posted on 05/19/2011 1:19:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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76 posted on 05/19/2011 1:23:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: mylife

Space time emerged from the big bang, not fully formed stars and planets


77 posted on 05/19/2011 3:00:15 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: Puckster

What you said. LOL


78 posted on 05/19/2011 4:18:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: null and void
An explosion of space has no particular orientation in space.

Your comment reminds me of the rat politician and I don't remember his/her name, who said it was disrespectful for astronauts to take an upside down picture of earth from space.

I hope I made my statement clear enough, that you don't think I an disagreeing with you. I'm not.

79 posted on 05/19/2011 4:58:59 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: null and void
The two are not incompatible.

That's my stance too.

I'm a Christian who believes the earth is a lot more tha 6,000 years old. I'm a little embarrassed by my Pastor saying from the pulpit, that earth is about 6,000 years old. This, from a man who has an earned doctorate, (as opposed to an honorary one), ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

My God is big enough to have created everything in any manner He chose.

Big bang? Somebody had to create and light that fire cracker.

80 posted on 05/19/2011 5:06:06 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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