Starship Asterisk*

What do you guys think of this answer:
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I'm curious about whether there is a deeper underlying motive for the search for extraterrestrial life - that is to make money. It is such an unbelievable long-shot to say with any certainty that there is life out there that if in 20 years all our sensors found a planet or found planets with all the...

Thanks astro_uk, I appreciate your posts. There aren't enough posts like them on this forum. You mention that an IR telescope would have to be nearly 250m to resolve fine details in IR from the big bang. This could be done via interferometry (like the ISI does) couldn't it? It seems that should be a...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061219.html Zooming up on pismis24-1 you see 2 distinct stars. http://www.the-austins.com/pismis24-1.jpg Two questions here; the APOD article says 24-1 is made of at least 3 - but we only see two in the image above. Where is the 3rd, etc? The other question is with...

...it predates western civilization by several thousand years, as well as Egyptian. Just a side note, I just came back from Egypt, where I've seen all that ancient stuff in Cairo history museum, and I'm not impressed. I mean it was big deal 5k years ago, but compared to western civilization as it e...

Ipaq, What I was meaning by 'the church' was the Catholic Church, which took Christianity and turned it into a Big Business, and became as powerful and influential as the Government or the King. In terms of Hinduism, my understanding is that it was a flourishing culture in the era of 7000-5000BC; b...

From the philosophy class that compaired religions, I found I liked Hindu cosmology best, it made the most sense to me. They see the Universe as always being here, in the sense of, its been here so long it's like it's always been here; so it isn't a logical question to ask, when did it begin. LOL A...

Just for curiosity sake, I wanted to see what else stood out so I used a photoshop trick to digitally find the differences between the two pictures. It looks like this: http://planthetrip.com/difference.jpg http://planthetrip.com/difference.jpg The bubble looking things are caused by differences in ...

A previous poster indicated what I also was led to initially believe - that the webpage indicated that the supernova was to the right of the galaxy center instead of below the galaxy center. Here is the sentence that led us astray: "It is visible on the right of the above before and after image...