Starship Asterisk*

This is probably not the wisest of questions but i really and genuinely would like to know Light / One single photon Once this single photon comes in to existence it will by it's own nature start traveling at C in one direction or another SO if one were close enough to see this single photon's light...

Even if its found to be a gas or all rock planet? Spent a few minutes searching for information regarding planet x, for the most part people believed it was either orbiting the sun in the same place as the earth but on the opposite side of the sun so thats why we could never see it, that or it orbit...

If it were a Cryovolcano wouldn't there be a visible plume coming off of the thing already

Before i heard about this X and Y planets possibly being out there it seems like forever that one crackpot or another were always talking about some mysterious planet X with scientists always discounting the possibility............And now there might be Hmmmmm.. And @ geckzilla, this Ceres thing is ...

Thanks guys @ Chris / Question / looking at a deep view of our milky way there are millions of stars in practically every direction so wouldn't a planet or even a moon be blocking out thousands of stars at any given time / When one is looking at those deep field views are closer objects in the foreg...

Because for one, they are talking about something larger than earth / something that big would have to block out background stars and so would have been noticed............No ?? And then #2 if they are ( icy-super earths ) I would think that they would reflect all kinds of sunlight. No ??? Unless i ...

Oh come-on i was just having a little fun, should i have stated the question as I hate how when one bulb goes out the entire line of Christmas lights will go out as well Imagine if the entire electrical grid in China was wired like that too IE. Induced ground Someones porch light goes out and..........

Found this story on Yahoo tonight, Is this to be believed / how can this even be possible ? :shock: Out past Pluto, in a galaxy not that far, far away (ours, in fact), may lie two planets larger than Earth. Astrophysicists studying “extreme trans-Neptunian objects” (ETNOs) now believe that a “Planet...

With regards to the Chinese import Christmas lights that are sold everywhere, the ones that when one bulb goes out the entire line goes out as well. 1st I'd like to say that I hate that and secondly I wonder if you live in China and your next door neighbors porch light goes out does the whole city g...

I hope that when i die i go peacefully-in my sleep like my grandfather did
Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car

@ rstevenson Someone else's hemisphere hopefully but I'm willing to do my part if not
@ Chris On the path of polluting a few billion of us into oblivion without any outside intervention
Yep I do suppose so.

Cynical, you bet but sometimes i think that what this planet needs is a good old fashion mass extinction of humans on a hemisphere or two lest we overpopulate this rock and pollute the whole lot of our kind into oblivion

Department of forestry claims that the following is probably the case but freely admits that no one really knows for sure Trees might go on growing forever if it wasn't for gravity. The higher up trees grow, the more energy is needed to transport water from the root system to its leaves or needles u...

Indeed its pretty strange what this planetary orbital distances discussion has transmogrified (is that a word) into. Interesting thought rstevenston and one i have never pondered. Now if the limit to how tall a tree can grow rests on it's ability to pump nutrients to its tallest branches (fighting t...

In the end there are so many uses for wood one would be hard pressed to even attempt to name them all, humans and wood; per-se go way, way back. People have made ships out of the stuff, cars and airplanes and i think the only thing you cannot make out of wood is a spaceship. I love it the most for i...

And I'm sure one could quantify the threats from all the introduced species in Australia, and arrange the numbers in such a way as to find ratios matching closely with ezip's planetary orbit ratios. And the universe is doomed. And little lambs eat ivy. It can't all be coincidence. (Or was it just a...

Go to Mars with the intent of never coming back to the earth, wow...........Just WOW

I nearly fell out of my chair, sure enough those (shrimp on the barbie) Aussies have plantations of exotic pines growing. But......they are simply calling the trees exotic because they are not indigenous trees in the country, that and some other genetically altered pines that they claim will produce...

@ Nitpicker I've been a wood worker my entire life, as was my father and his father before him and possibly his father before him, no one knows and I don't care. but I'm here to tell you that there is unequivocally no such thing as an exotic pine, moreover there is noting at all exotic about pine, i...

I am so looking forward to seeing Pluto close up for the first time
The first thing that comes to my mind when i ponder on that which it may find are the 1000 - 1500mph winds on Neptune and Uranus, worlds that were imagined to be just cold and boring

Agreed on the child's sex thing, when i heard the joke originally the child was referred to as IT but I didn't feel right with that
As for the remaining points which you have made..............I don't know how the child lived I just know that he made it to his 21st birthday

The message which was written in a birthday card that I received from a family member this year

I decided that I'm not going to make any age related jokes this year on your birthday
because I really do genuinely feel bad about how old you really are.

A married couple have a baby boy that's born with no body at all, just a head and a neck but it's their child and so they love and raise him. Now when the head turns twenty one his dad takes him to a bar to get his first drink so he sets the head down on a bar stool next to him and pours a drink int...

A poet to his love By Maxwell Bodenheim AN old silver church in a forest Is my love for you. The trees around it Are words that I have stolen from your heart. An old silver bell, the last smile you gave, Hangs at the top of my church. It rings only when you come through the forest And stand beside i...