Starship Asterisk*

craterchains wrote:Must go much faster than light speed, actually I doubt that would be even a good
indicator of the necessary speeds to gain reasonable intergalactic travel.

Douglas Adams wrote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Smile a blackhole has no actual hole. It was named by scientists who thought it was actually a vortex. Sorry, I thought that was just assumed. When I said "the hole" I was using "scientific slang" to refer to all elements of the object...singularity, event horizon, ect. I will b...

Personally, I think a lot of it is devised to create an argument in order for Americans to continue using the absurd amount of energy that they do..... Agreed...the US political-economic climate right now leans toward the supply-siders; conservation of any sort simply equates to "less sales.&q...

Alternative fuels and conservation are being suppressed . Limitless petroleum supplies that are "hidden from us" are in reality, just not proven. You can't suppress something that hasn't been discovered. If your hypothesis is correct (notice I didn't use the word "theory") the oi...

Well, if we did find oil on the moon, we'd return much sooner than you'd expect.

The administration would declare the moon a terrorist state and we'd invade it.

I think this point has come up before...but isn't it interesting that "true" color is defined as "that small part of the EM spectrum to which human eyes are sensitive." Perhaps there is something “tactile” about knowing what objects would look like through our own eyes. Maybe the...

We haven't left our own magnetosphere, and you guys are talking about inter-stellar and even inter-galactic travel as if you were planning a trip to Hawaii. Everything great has to begin with a discussion or else no one knows where to go. A trip to Mars...let alone Jupiter...wouldn't be great? :P :...

we are rotting - period There is nothing on the other side of the equal sign. The same as some say black holes suck/draw in material, what is happening to this material? Is it being perpetuity compressed? Is it going some other place? There is nothing on the other side of the equal sign. Different ...

To explore to go where no man has gone before, thats why we need to go at the speed of light and beyond. A baby is 2 weeks old. I think he's ready for the Iron Man competition. We haven't left our own magnetosphere, and you guys are talking about inter-stellar and even inter-galactic travel as if y...

We know that to get the galaxies to where they are today means that they had to exceed the speed of light many times over for a time. We do? :? Anyway, I was posting to add a link to an interesting article about dark matter and the expansion of the universe. Oh and here's another one. This one is a...

S. Bilderback wrote:
The matter invented by scienetist to make the math work.

I like that. 8)

Expanding Universe is a false statement. The dating and distant calculation is under question. If the Universe is "All" how can it expand within itself. Parts of the Universe may expand from themsleves in the overal process of recycling and this does not mean the universe is expanding. Ou...

Wow, I bought my first ever Night Sky magazine (Nov/Dec), still have not read a single article. Have to get past salivating at the telescopes. I have that problem too. Been thinking seriously about getting a new 'scope by next summer or so. I have been leaning toward an 8" or a 9.25" Schm...

A globular cluster maybe! 8)

Response to the above: In my opinion most stable stars are ejected from a large active black hole normally located in the centre of a galaxy and in many cases cluster of stars are ejected giving them a time stamp on their origin.

I can't make heads or tails of this statement.

craterchains wrote:That's what was called Astral Projection, or Remote Viewing nowa days.

Sorry, I want to be able to take my beer with me.

Norval

No beer, no deep space missions! It would have to be part of my salary! 8)

craterchains wrote:Just send a "solar sail" ship through it. (Can I make a suggestion as to the pilot?)

Norval

Zing!

" "preferentially reflecting the blue light" Yes, scattering is the correct term. That's not a clear statement at all. I would think that someone who didn't understand the phenomenon would be even more confused by that statement. But as usual, the accompanying links help clear things...

Yeah, but what about hot, green ladies?

But, apparently no one wants to discuss anything that has to do with faster than light speed, or it's potential possibility. Everyone wants you to just accept the standard of the theory that it is not possible to travel faster than light. Oh, and have a nice day. :( Norval Star Wars and Star Trek a...

Some more of Orca's Favorites:

The great Andromeda Galaxy..


The Horsehead Nebula..

The Trifid Nebula, here and here..

And let's not forget Saturn, my favorite target in the night sky..

Hmm I think I could do this all night... 8)

just thought I would start a post about the subject. This Photo says a lot to me,including the dreams of Man to reach and understand the Stars,and Universe we live in. Grounded on Earth by the very Physical forces which exist throughout the Universe we nonetheless reach as far as we can using the p...

And lest we forget: Isn't it a bit strange that the Horsehead Nebula looks like a horse...and the Greeks built the Trojan Horse...

Coincidence? I think not!

There is no Big Bang National Park. There's no park...but there's always the Restaurant at the End of the Universe! :P ta152h0, for one thing, you can't think about the expansion of the universe in terms of a bunch of "stuff" flying out of a central point like a firecracker exploding. For...

There was a program about Venus (NOVA?) and scientists trying to solve the many unanswered questions about the veiled planet. It's assumed that the reason Venus has such a dense atmosphere is that it is being replenished by volcanoes...but so far there isn't any direct evidence of volcanic activity,...