Starship Asterisk*

If we could travel at 186,000 miles per second the Earth would continue to rotate and time would pass there at its same rate. Time would pass for us on board ship at the same rate as on earth. the only difference is that our view of the planets timeframe wouldn't change as we would be viewing the re...

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isn't orbital velocity only crucial to obtain orbit and can't escape velocity be less if you are traveling tangent to orbital direction?

Easy Time Travel Tools needed: 1) A confortable chair 2) A good book or NOVA on TV 3) A clock Experiment: Sit in the comfortable chair with the clock in front of you. (if you are going to watch NOVA on TV be certain to place the clock on top of the TV in plain sight. If you decide on the Book optio...

well it doesn't appear to show up very well in any but the 051114 c3.mpg file. it was much more impressive in the daily mpeg files on 11-16-05. This was a combination of the 11-13, 11-14, 11-15, 11-16 files in large format.

In the LASCO C3 and LASCO C2 for 11-13/11-14-05 there is a disappearing comet that's on its final orbit of the sun. You see it in enter the occulting disk area in the "C3" mpeg for 11-14-05 but it doesn't exit. If you look at the "C2" mpeg file, you also see it enter the frame th...

I think they could be perusing the site for possible ideas too. "Free Consultations."

Consider this, Jupiter would just fit between Earth and the Moon. If either of the gas giants were the moons distance away, (and we were moving fast enough for a stable orbit), they would fill the field of view. If saturn were placed between the Earth and Moon, the ring system would disappear in one...

As these are driven by pressure caused by the explosion of the host star, I would imagine that they would dissipate over time much like the ripples of a rock in a pond do. I wonder if radio waves diminish over time and space? It might be interesting to send a probe out with an ear toward earth and h...

The whole thing reminds me of a crater that would be approx 25000km accorss and about 5000km deep. It does resemble an ejecta crater like the ones on hyperion rather than an impact crater. What would be needed is a good laser altimeter reading on the topography of the sun spot.

They even have Scotties "Transparent Aluminum"
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

Fortunately, it is only the interpretation of a theory that dictates faster than light travel to be impossible. It is my personal belief that we will one day conquer that threshold, though not in my lifetime. I used to think that only light was ruled by that speed but several published experiments d...

Perhaps they could use a certain thickness of transparent aluminum for the windows for even better protection.

Transparent Aluminum? That is the molecule that Scotty used to barter the 6" thick plexiglass in Star Trek 4.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

Well Science mimics art.

What gets me, is that we did not design the shuttle's external fuel tank to be taken on up into orbit. How many would we have up by now? What kinds of industry(s) might be attempted in those spaces? If they did keep a tank, they could use it at the ISS to store and remove garbage. This could then b...

I was under the impression that "Crater Chains' have a definite starting point and a definite stopping point. these small lines traverse large areas and, to me at least, resemble stress fractures similar to europa.

A poet might say:

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since they are farthest away they may be the remnante of the outer shell of the star or the final (super large) solar prominances (sp?) that tore the star apart.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051026.html

If this is the image you are talking about, they look like cracked ice to me.

Fickle though it may seem, my favorite APOD is usually the next one I see. They all are ususaly so interesting.

Gravity should be a constant but only effective upon things which fall into its relative sphere of influence. The central black hole of our galaxy has a gravity well that is effective over a 70,000 LY area while the Andromeda galaxy effects over 200,000 LY.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050511.html is a great one as is the link from it to this one http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/M104_ngc4594_sombrero_galaxy.jpg I also like this one http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020724.html But so far, I think I like this one best http://ant...

Following Mr Roeders examples: On average, Pluto is about 6 light hours away. the newly discovered Sedna varies from a minimum distance of approx 11 light hours to a maximum of 125 light hours and takes about 10,500 years to orbit the sun. The sun though only has 1 solar mass of gravity pulling on t...

I had read that the temp on Mars varies to the high of 68deg? I am also aware of the fact that pressure is different at different altitudes. I am wondering what the pressure and temp are at the bottom of the Valley Marinaris?

if you think the match is accurate enough, consider this: 8) 8) 8) as you can see, those piramids aligned just like these emoticons! perhaps, Eugyptian prophet have foreseen my post? I see your point, but more sepcifically there is a line of three pyramids, but one of them is smaller and slightly o...

Could the dark circle at the center of the end of the filament be a black hole siphoning material form its companion star?

Just below the 4 o'clock position is what appears to be the largest nebula imaginable, If it is part of that galaxy.

Too bad that only one of your emoticons lines up center to center though.

And what about stellar drift? How far have they moved since the initial construction? I doubt that there is any acturate way to tell.

But then most things are theory and conjecture.