I came across this video about measuring distances in space that is really interesting.
KeithTas wrote:I came across this video about measuring distances in space that is really interesting.
Sunny wrote:That was interesting, amazing we can observe up to 40 million light yrs away. But after that everything becomes blury.
LordRaven wrote:As it was leaving our solar system Carl Sagan and Co got Voyager to turn round and take a snapshot of earth...
We are very much a tiny blue speck in the inky void vastness of space
KeithTas wrote:Sunny wrote:I am fascinated with Gleise 581.
Gliese 581 is an M-class red dwarf star that is not far from the Earth. It is 22 light years away from the Solar system and is in the Goldilocks zone. It gained interest from astronomers because it was reported to be the first potentially Earth-like planet in the habitable zone of its star.
Not far from earth mmmmm. Using a very quick calculation, if you travelled at say a million miles and hour (let's be generous and say that's 25 times what our current space craft travel) then to reach Gliese 581 would take about 15,000 years, not far at all really. I must stress this is a very quick calculation, I'm sure someone will come up with the precise figures.
KeithTas wrote:I came across this video about measuring distances in space that is really interesting.
Mark wrote:it do make sense
life can exist on earth, in extreme environments
so why not in space?
it could explain how life started here as well
which will fuck off the God Squad
who's a clever boy then, Mr Darwin
LordRaven wrote:Mark wrote:it do make sense
life can exist on earth, in extreme environments
so why not in space?
it could explain how life started here as well
which will fuck off the God Squad
who's a clever boy then, Mr Darwin
I just wish they'd send probes to enceladus Europa and titan that could get through the crust to the suspected oceans of liquid below, then we'd probably find something.
Mars looks a long shot but then again bacteria from earth lived happily on a camera lens on the moon for years?
The mind boggles.
Art0 wrote:Mark wrote:it do make sense
life can exist on earth, in extreme environments
so why not in space?
it could explain how life started here as well
which will fuck off the God Squad
who's a clever boy then, Mr Darwin
Fk sake I was talking about this 15 years ago and calculating it twenty five years ago. With zero evidence to supporty my hypothesis!
So Fkn slow. And still not a clue.. Still waiting for all the wilfully ignorant to catch up... I still have no one to talk to...
Who the fk said the "breath of life" is limited to breathing oxygen??
If you name it then it can not be it. Who is this god you speak of? What was your name before you where given a name??
Mark wrote:Art0 wrote:Mark wrote:it do make sense
life can exist on earth, in extreme environments
so why not in space?
it could explain how life started here as well
which will fuck off the God Squad
who's a clever boy then, Mr Darwin
Fk sake I was talking about this 15 years ago and calculating it twenty five years ago. With zero evidence to supporty my hypothesis!
So Fkn slow. And still not a clue.. Still waiting for all the wilfully ignorant to catch up... I still have no one to talk to...
Who the fk said the "breath of life" is limited to breathing oxygen??
If you name it then it can not be it. Who is this god you speak of? What was your name before you where given a name??
lol
alright nutnut
I was taught this
35 yr ago, by a very good biology teacher, who was also my form tutor for a few years
very interesting fella
and sorry Art
but you aint unique mate
unlike these
top old tune
tho maybe not hardcore enough for you young'un
but this is what we used to dance to, when no one knew what we was up to
as we went back n forth to san Antonio, then the trip schum and of course
the Downham Tavern
Aziz wrote:Sunny wrote:That was interesting, amazing we can observe up to 40 million light yrs away. But after that everything becomes blury.
Perhaps even more amazing is that the edge of the observable universe is about 46 billion light years away (in every direction) - and that's just the observable universe - big or what?
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