by Byork » Thu May 17, 2012 1:17 pm
The Herschel space observatory must be recovered and returned to the Earth when its useful life span is completed. Supposedly, helium gas is used to cool the image receptors of the telescope enabling imaging of cold dust and gas. When the helium is depleted the telescope becomes useless. Its a use-and-throw-away scheme. My understanding is that any project which relies on the use and throw away of sophisticated instruments constitutes non-sense, not science. Numerous robots were sent to Mars in search of biological activity while seals are clubbed to death in Canada. For this reason alone, the 'curiosity' mission to Mars should have been canceled. It does not make sense searching for life elsewhere in the universe while life is relentlessly destroyed on Earth. But, things appear to be much worse than it seems. Nowadays, with all of the space junk orbiting the Earth you never know whether an object blazing across the sky is a meteorite or space junk. The space junk needs to be recovered and recycled. And, frankly, I do not relate images of cold gas and dust with the context of scientific exploration.
The subject of solar analog stars deserves a lot mare attention. Solar analog stars are a subject which may be examined with simple ground-based instruments. Rather than study the objects with sophisticated instruments like Kepler which rely on questionable assumptions, a consistent examination of optical image and supporting spectral data may yield reliable understanding of a solar analog star's disposition including placement of planets and possible existence of Earth-like worlds.
Therefore, I urge NASA and ESA to scrape these non-sense expeditions involving heavy weight use-and-throw-away hardware in favor of more 'down to earth' expeditions involving the search for another Earth.
My own field of interest involves terrestrial worlds involving binary planetary systems similar to Pluto and Charon in which both planets are tidally locked in synchronous orbit. It is known that such worlds exist because theories of celestial mechanics support their existence. Known solar analog stars probably are associated with such binary planetary systems. Eden worlds such as the Earth and Moon probably exist in a majority of G type solar analog stars. But, even with the flying disc propulsion technology supplied by the aliens, where would we look for them..?
The physical data associated with planets of G type stars would not be pronounced or obvious. Dramatic data such as stelar wobble could be misleading. But, there is a model we can draw upon to complete a stellar picture: the Solar system. And, there must be a picture; without the extraterrestrial landscape inscribed by an artist, the scientific data is basically meaningless.
The Herschel space observatory must be recovered and returned to the Earth when its useful life span is completed. Supposedly, helium gas is used to cool the image receptors of the telescope enabling imaging of cold dust and gas. When the helium is depleted the telescope becomes useless. Its a use-and-throw-away scheme. My understanding is that any project which relies on the use and throw away of sophisticated instruments constitutes non-sense, not science. Numerous robots were sent to Mars in search of biological activity while seals are clubbed to death in Canada. For this reason alone, the 'curiosity' mission to Mars should have been canceled. It does not make sense searching for life elsewhere in the universe while life is relentlessly destroyed on Earth. But, things appear to be much worse than it seems. Nowadays, with all of the space junk orbiting the Earth you never know whether an object blazing across the sky is a meteorite or space junk. The space junk needs to be recovered and recycled. And, frankly, I do not relate images of cold gas and dust with the context of scientific exploration.
The subject of solar analog stars deserves a lot mare attention. Solar analog stars are a subject which may be examined with simple ground-based instruments. Rather than study the objects with sophisticated instruments like Kepler which rely on questionable assumptions, a consistent examination of optical image and supporting spectral data may yield reliable understanding of a solar analog star's disposition including placement of planets and possible existence of Earth-like worlds.
Therefore, I urge NASA and ESA to scrape these non-sense expeditions involving heavy weight use-and-throw-away hardware in favor of more 'down to earth' expeditions involving the search for another Earth.
My own field of interest involves terrestrial worlds involving binary planetary systems similar to Pluto and Charon in which both planets are tidally locked in synchronous orbit. It is known that such worlds exist because theories of celestial mechanics support their existence. Known solar analog stars probably are associated with such binary planetary systems. Eden worlds such as the Earth and Moon probably exist in a majority of G type solar analog stars. But, even with the flying disc propulsion technology supplied by the aliens, where would we look for them..?
The physical data associated with planets of G type stars would not be pronounced or obvious. Dramatic data such as stelar wobble could be misleading. But, there is a model we can draw upon to complete a stellar picture: the Solar system. And, there must be a picture; without the extraterrestrial landscape inscribed by an artist, the scientific data is basically meaningless.