Starship Asterisk*

Contemplating all the artistically representation possible made my brain Thor!

I do not like to concept of singularities, it involves dividing by zero. There is no mathematical representation to what is under the event horizon, just speculations based on opinions. It is more probable that if one could breach an event horizons, they would enter a wormhole - a wormhole is mathem...

The NASA-German Helios 1 and 2 solar probes reached 252,800 km/h (158,000 mph) during their orbits of the Sun. The two spacecraft, which were launched in 1974 and 1976, were German probes designed to orbit the Sun. They were launched by Titan 3E rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA on December ...

In accordance with the string theory, the force of gravity may be an instantaneous force with no connection to the speed of light (or information) regardless of the relative time frame. Mathematically, gravity or the graviton has to be an open-ended loop in the 4 dimensional world where space/time e...

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A mere 3 to 5 million years old and not yet burning hydrogen in their cores

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Are you referring to stars or proto stars?

I don't see how your theory explains the H ions to He ratio of the solar winds, the cooled state of brown dwarfs, the seismic and acoustic resonance of the Sun, the mechanics of a pulsar, along with other concepts that don't fit in with a conventional model of a star. Please elaborate.

harry wrote:So for now if a galaxy is 100 light years across and if you were able to travell at the speed of light it will take you 100 years.

!00 years, for who? What about relativity?

I'd love to discuss crater chains, pull one up.
But also, the points I'm making are relevant to the physical makeup of Itokawa - drifting a little but they flow.

If the aphelion of all orbiting object are compiled and plotted over millions of years, the solar system is circular – just another definition.

I don't think the gardener did it.

While many accept the "rubble pile" comet theory as to the cause of crater chains, I do not. Most comets and asteroids do not have physical make up to create crater chains, that’s why they are "rare", but some wandering bodies must be made of uniform sized, low cohesion chunks, ...

6.3 or 10 degrees, unless I'm on my way for a luner landing, it's close enough for me.

:) it seem weak enought that it can collapse and disperse itself just by the effect of strong gravity of a planet if it came close to one. Can that asteroid be easy to destroy by a bomb if it were to come close to earth? Is it as fragile as it seem? And can it be thug? Most non-metallic asteroids d...

You are absolutly correct my friend!

The indention looks like a slow elastic collision compressing the surface, but instead of the object adhering, it bounced off leaving its footprint.

I was asking about the wobble that causes the changes in seasons; and whether of not all planets and or asteroids and satellites were also affected in this way. Is this a natural phenomenon or is it unique to the Earth and the Moon??? The "Wobble" isn't really a factor in the seasonal eff...

There was a story on the History Channerl that discussed the link between the pyraminds and astronomy and the alignment of a long hole coincided with the predicted position of a star 13000 years ago ( implying the earth wobbled once every 26000 years). Pass the ice cold one, I earned it :D Pass the...

I think they support this site because they like reading the postings of us "arm-chair science geeks”, that is, for entertainment purposes only.

First, the rings are bright and shiny like something new. Saturn’s radiation and dust particles would have darkened them if they were part of the original planetary formation. Second, small moons that orbit through the outermost regions of the ring system are gaining angular momentum at the expense ...

As you've probably heard, there is no such thing as a stupid question, OK there are, questions that have not engaged the brain that conceived them, or those that the asker doesn't listen for the answer. You passed this test.:D The reason the gas giants tend to have rings is - lots of gravity and the...

It would be cool if Saturn was about where Mars is, that would delight in the evening sky. By a quick guesstimation, Saturn (without rings) would appear about the size of the Moon.

Landing a thruster unit on the asteroid and have it capable of stopping or controlling the asteroid's rotation and also give it a gentle nudge would be the most economical solution if brut force doesn't lend itself as a feasible solution. I'd still like the use of a 100 M-ton H-bomb and see one of t...

The energy it would take to send a 20 ton tug out into the orbital path far enough out to change the orbital path of an asteroid before it hit the Earth would be astronomical! It would be much more efficient to slam the tug into it. In perspective, in close proximity, the gravitational pull between ...

Think of how bright the "Moon Shine" would be at nigh if Jupiter was a the Moon's distance . . .

. . . Wait, that would make the Earth a moon of Jupiter and we would be fried by its radiation field - yiiiiiiiiiiks!

Consider yourself lucky; some might say by definition the Earth and the Moon are a binary planet system. Mercury and Venus don't have any moons, on Mars the moons are hardly noticeable, and by size comparison the gas giants' moons would be equally unnoticeable. It is so dark near Pluto, nothing woul...