DECEMBER 2012....cant wait

 

There's only one star in our solar system, by the way - the sun. It's about 93 million miles away. I actually have no idea if we've sent a probe into it or not - I suspect we have though. Anyway, the second closest start to the earth is Proxima Centauri, at 4.2 light years away. That's 265,606 times the distance between Earth and the sun. (In other words, make a scale model where the earth is one inch away from the sun, and Proxima Centauri would be over four miles away. The Sun, by the way, would be 0.009 inches in diameter. Space is big.)

We know what galaxies look like - you can see some yourself with The Raptor's telescopes. Stars are not galaxies.

 

raptor can you see me all the way in san diego

 

actually, alot of the "stars" we see at night are galaxies. they're just so far away that we see dot instead of form.

 

well not for the most part....

i for one did believe we did...

but they have sooo much evidence and documentaries that argue/prove that we didn't

but then again, there's so much that we don't know

when my brother came back from Kuwait, he told me that there are so many things he learned that we as civilians don't know.....the gov't has its' secrets

 

It's a mathematical certainty that every one of the ~6 billion people living on earth today has at least one common ancestor that lived within the past few thousand years. In other words, everyone in the world today is related, and you must only trace your family tree back a few thousand years to find this common ancestor.

It's a mathematical certainty that every single person living sometime between 5,000 to 7,000 years ago is either an ancestor to all ~6 billion people living today, or their line died out and they have no remaining descendants..

 

[QUOTE=Sr2oD3,Nov 28 2007, 08:43 AM] I absolutely believe that we aren't the only planet in the universe to have life, for those who think not, that's a pretty selfish claim. Think about it, we(humans) were designed to match the climate of this earth, this ecosystem. What about other planets? Yes, some planets in our solar system have temperatures averating -396

 

Taking a few college level astronomy classes can be some of the most fulfilling learning you do in your life span. I was an economics and mandarin chinese major but almost had a minor in astronomy simply because I enjoyed the knowledge I obtained so much.

We already have the capacity to see events that took place roughly 10-11 billion years ago.

Here's a good one that takes some reading to fully understand-space is expanding in all directions relative to any point in existence.

The human conception of time and gravity is centered upon our experiences in our little blubble called earth. In the most accurate sense, "time" doesn't really exist in terms of our definition. The last class I took was an advanced class on quasars and black holes. I learned more truly interesting and profound information in my astronomy classes than I did in all my economics and chinese classes combined.

 

I plan to live forever.

So far, so good.

 

you accept life as it is.... no questions asked

i've embraced it and am choosing to challenge it and question WHY????

remember my dear Sparrow....u had no choice in being born the specific being you are


for all you know, you could've been born one of those poor children that suffer from AIDS and hunger

but for some reason you've been given the opportunity to be the person you are and be a part of S2Ki.....and at the same time your life drove you to read this thread

meant to be ??? who knows....NOT YOU i'm sure!!!!

i guess what I really wanted to get across is how small we truly are and how some things in life such as little fights with your significant other or road rage can really be taken over the line

its so small....

can u imagine how much your life will change if North Korea or Iran decide to make threats with a Nuclear arsenal????

S2Ki will surely diminish quickly....cuz it will have been so insignificant in this lifetime that you'll do nothing but think of those you love and the life you live in...

this is life....question it !!!!