Starship Asterisk*

Ever hear the story about how man defined God? On day after all the knowledge of man was written down, man said is the a God. They looked and looked thru out all the books and said, not enough information. Then centuries passed and man again asked the question is there a God, Still after all that wa...

I just dont think no matter how intelligent they are in their own culture that our writting would be anymore decypherable than theirs would be to us.

Thats what I am talking about. Its like we find a spaceship floating towards our solar system. On it is a message that plainly says in 400 alien languages from Planet X, "aksmu anshyan mdjusty ammaunnhs annsaa s asnnahs ahsb absba a sbhhfif " now who is decyphering it and figuring out what...

But I wonder what was so special about Flagstaff? There are plenty of places in the US that are as high if not higher in elevation than Flagstaff. Lowell must have spent a lot of time studing the "Canals" on Mars and marveling at Martian tech, as it took 35 years to find Pluto after his te...

I live in Flagstaff AZ. Pluto was discovered from a place near town called Mars Hill. My question is back in the early 1900's how and why did Lowell decide that Flagstaff was a good place to study Mars and manage to find the ninth planet. Back then most of America was fairly dark without the so call...

It always amazes me how a simple question in any forum, pormotes so many answers and debates on the subject question...

So like me, you are actually a Astro"nut". I used to build Estes and Century Rockets when I was a kid in the 60's in NY. Built small versions of NASA rockets and shot them into the air...

Message in a Bottle Each Voyager has mounted to one of the sides of the bus a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk. The disk has recorded on it sounds and images of Earth designed to portray the diversity of life and culture on the planet. Each disk is encased in a protective aluminum jacket along with a...

What has happened to the early space probes that were first sent out from earth back in the 60's or 70's that have gone out past Pluto. I cannot think of their names. One was mentioned in a Star Trek movie. Oh, yes Voyager! There was a Voyager I and II right? Where are these now and do they still se...

Apodman, You said "before we saw it from spacecraft", are you an astronaut?

So the moon does not revolve on its axis but revolves around the earth? It does not turn around but stays with the same side facing the sun all the time?

If thats true then why when I look at the moon even when its only a half or quarter full does whats left in the light look like the same moon when its full? Only missing the shaded part.

The Moon is always facing the same side towards the Earth, Right? And usually the other side is always in the dark? But during a eclipse the dark side is towards the Sun and the what is normally lit side becomes darK? What is the tempertures on the lit side and the dark side? With no atmosphere the ...

Man need not be able to know how to take iron from rock to have dreams of doing the imaginable. Have you never dreamed of flying like superman, or being able to walk on the moon? I think early man having seen the moon could have imagined being able to go there somehow. He dreamed up the idea of God'...

One said about a realistic Time frame. Thats what a stone age man would have said to his grandson when he had a dream about television tech. Imagine a time when new tech was not the vogue. At one time humans could barely imagine finding a new food source like planting instead of just harvesting. Now...

How do we know we are not extraterrestrials, coming here thousands of years ago, placed here by ancestors from another world to study the planet and make way for ourselves to eventually go to other worlds? Maybe we came here not realising our presence on what we call Earth would be so destructive to...

So I guess my question is, Being the size of the universe I guess all we ver will do as humans is look at it from our telescopes and be amazed by its splender and send robotic missions to distant worlds.
May there be any worlds outside our solar system we can go to other than the nine known planets?

If all the galaxies in the known universe are so far away and we cannot travel the speed of light, will mankind ever be able to visit one or any of them? At current available speeds what is the quickest we could get to the closest galaxy?