I intend to be alive 175 years from now (or die trying).

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/...71127171056.htm

Discovering Teenage Galaxies Billions Of Light Years Away

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2007)

 

The astronomy professor concluded the day's lecture by saying, "At the current rate of decay of the earth's orbit, it will approach the sun and be vaporized in about a billion years."

From the back of the lecture hall a small voice emerged. "Ex-c-c-cuse me, professor. H-how long did you just say it would take?"

"About a billion years."

"Oh, thank goodness!" said the voice, obviously much relieved. "For a moment there I'd thought you'd said a million years!"

 

haha....

i kinda wish i was a little more educated on the subject ya kno.....like life and space

i'm sure even some rocket scientists would like to know some of this stuff....its just so pointless to stop your life in its tracks and start to think about things like this

living in a Capitalist nation does frown upon "hippies" lol

but some of these facts are jaw-droppers........

and I've also heard that Jupiter's core is metal based

 

I think about a lot of these things quite frequently, sometimes just as a reality check. As far as space and the universe, if you have the opportunity to take an astronomy or astrophysics course (provided you're still in school), I highly recommend doing so. It was absolutely fascinating.

 

Yup. A hydrogen atom is a single proton and single electron. When you compress hydrogen enough, the electrons dissasociate from the protons and can flow freely though the material just like in a metal. The current theory is that there's a LOT of this stuff in Jupiter, which helps produce its tremendously strong magnetic field (strong enough to extend to Saturn's orbit, I've read.)

 

Dick Clark will still be around. I bet $5.

 

have u guys ever experienced a meteor shower.....i had a set of teachers that cared to enlighten me and a set of classmates by informing us about one that was gonna happen


let me just tell you, that was probably the most eye boggling thing i have ever seen in my life, next to Haley's comet, which also had my jaw dropped

it's amazing how they just crossed through our atmosphere at such a fast pace......it just makes u wonder where they'd been and where they were destined to go

 

For a real experience, try a total eclipse of the sun. I've seen them at Roundup (north of Billings), Montana; Cabo San Lucas; Aruba; and Munich. I've also seen annular eclipses at Catalina Island, CA and Puerto Vallarta. An annular (from the Latin word "annulus," or ring) eclipse occurs when the moon is further away from the earth relative to the sun and the disc of the moon only covers about 99 percent of disc of the sun. Only a very thin ring of the sun is visible. A total eclipse covers the entire sun and the corona, the sun's atmosphere, becomes visible. Solar prominences, huge hydrogen flares off the surface of the sun, are visible. Two phenomena typically occur at the start and the finish of totality: The Diamond Ring Effect, when one side of the sun is a bright glare and and a thin ring remains, and Bailey's Beads, which is the last bit of the sun's rays shining through the valleys and canyons on the surface of the moon. The moon's shadow races by on the ground at 2,200 mph, but no one is looking down. The temperature can drop 20

 

Every August my wife and I like to vacation in the Sierras near Mammoth Mountain: camping, hiking, horseback riding, and so on. We try to go during the height of the Perseid meteorite shower. One year there was a meteorite that lit up the whole sky; I've never seen a trail so long, so wide, and so bright before or since.