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Post by Avengium on Jun 15, 2016 0:31:52 GMT
 Hi, this is a thread to talk about outer space and all it's related topics. We can talk about stars and constellations, planets and satellites, the cosmos as a whole, the distances between stars and galaxies, the astronomy discoveries in the news, the Big Bang and the fate of the Universe and a lot of interesting things. 1 AU: "Astronomic Unit" are 150 x 10e6 Km = 150 Millions.  1 Lightyear: 9,461 × 10e12 = 9 millions of millions 6x6 = 9 Billions.  1 Parsec: 3,26 lightyears.  We can talk about the differences of the outer space presented on movies, series, videogames and books with the real space out there and the missions on the ISS and Mars.  Also we can talk about Space in all kinds of media if we want. Like poetry, songs, sculpture and so on. Cosmos (Outer Space) - t.A.T.u, live in Saint Petersbourg in 28 April 2006. I want to propose some topics to get started, but anyone can propose more if you like: -- What do you think about spending hundred of millions of dollars in missions in the International Space Station (ISS) or in other places?  -- Do you think we can colonize other planets as we colonized Earth? What do you think about real terraform?  -- What is your opinion about humanity travelling far beyond the solar system?  -- Do you think humanity will witness a blackout in electricity and electronic devices because Sun will emit a peak of radiation that will cause an EMP to all Earth electric devices?  -- Do you think the Cosmos is a great place to live or you think is the more dangerous place in Existence?  -- What do you think about documentaries of Space in TV? Too amazing? Too boring? Too easy? Too complex?  -- What do you think about the ultradense masses that are the Black Holes?  -- Do you think Worm Holes is a reality or is just science-fiction?  -- Do you think humanity can develop any Faster Than Light (FTL) device before some natural disaster wipes humans from earth? -- Do you think that are intelligent life in Outer Space or not? Do you think that Drake's Equation is correct? -- Do you think that is possible that some life in Outer Space can be "Carbon Free". [They no use carbon in their biology] ? -- Do you think is possible to reunite the Cosmologic laws and equations with the quantum mechanics equations? Or do you think is not possible? -- What do you think about the inmense distances between stars and increasingly far distances between bigger bodies? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2016 8:35:05 GMT
No thread like this would be complete without some Carl Sagan.
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Post by Avengium on Jun 15, 2016 9:50:13 GMT
No thread like this would be complete without some Carl Sagan. Pale Blue Dot have its own thread. I just commented the video before. I think the first thing an astronomer learns is to be humble. We can talk here about humanity travelling to other distant planets. Like "Titan" one of the moons of Jupiter. Or other planets. Some people says that Titan can be suitable for life. www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2010/may/09/space-saturn-titan-earth-nasaOr maybe we can talk about anything else. The last movies i've seen about space were interstellar (with speculative fantasy) and The Martian. I liked the Martian a lot. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 8:43:39 GMT
I think it's absolutely vital, and it saddens me whenever I hear about budget cuts in the area of space exploration - or scientific progress in general for that matter. If we stop asking questions and doing our utmost to find the answers, then we might as well go back to the stone age. One day, sure. I certainly think we'll be exploring other worlds on foot in the not-too-distant future. But let's not trivialise how difficult that's going to be. I've already commented on this, but I personally don't think it will ever happen. Space is just too big. I think the universe is a beautiful but deadly place. There's strong evidence to support the idea of other habitibal worlds out there, but most of it would kill you in like a millionth of a second. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_Universeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_Solar_Systemen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_(TV_series)You're welcome.  I personally think FTL is the hard sci-fi equivalent of a lightsaber. Theoretically possible, but never actually doable. I should point out that I'm neither a scientist nor an engineer, so hey what do I know? Absolutely. The problem is that they live so far away that we might never make contact with them, or know how to. I can't say too much about about this, as while I get the gist of what quantum mechanics is all about it's way beyond my level of understanding. But hopefully! I hope that one day there will be a Charles Darwin of astrophysics, who comes up with a profound but beautifully simple explanation for all this stuff. Maybe they'll have a coherent explanation for how the big bang happened in the first place. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 8:58:23 GMT
As for movies and TV series about space, here are some of my favourites:-
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
2001: A Space Odyssey
Moon
Apollo 13
Alien
Event Horizon
Interstellar
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Post by Avengium on Jun 16, 2016 10:27:24 GMT
As for movies and TV series about space, here are some of my favourites:- Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager 2001: A Space Odyssey Moon Apollo 13 Alien Event Horizon Interstellar I love the Star Trek movies. I love the old movies more. I also love "Star Trek: First Contact". Moon is the movie with clones of the protagonist? I liked that movie Event Horizon, i think is a tv movie. Don't like. Interstellar, i liked a lot this movie, but has some "power of love" in the plot. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 10:33:09 GMT
Moon is the movie with clones of the protagonist? I liked that movie Correct. Incorrect. It was a commercial flop. But I've always liked it. |
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Post by banz on Jun 16, 2016 11:51:27 GMT
I personally think FTL is the hard sci-fi equivalent of a lightsaber. Theoretically possible, but never actually doable. I should point out that I'm neither a scientist nor an engineer, so hey what do I know? Oh no it is theoretically impossible. Nothing that has mass can travel at the speed of light.  |
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Post by Avengium on Jun 16, 2016 12:01:20 GMT
I think it's absolutely vital, and it saddens me whenever I hear about budget cuts in the area of space exploration - or scientific progress in general for that matter. If we stop asking questions and doing our utmost to find the answers, then we might as well go back to the stone age. I'm agree with you Harvey. It saddens me when people says: what is the utility of science? What is the utility of that experiment? We need to explore Mars while children are dying here in Earth? Let's spend all the budget of science in helping other countries not in science. This even inside medical laboratories. Some people here prefer not to spend a € learning about the ionosphere or other things he/she don't know about. I like a lot of documentaries of science. I watch this constantly on TV. Maybe we encounter some ancient device in Jupiter from an ancient alien species to travel to other planets. Like Mass Effect or like Stargate. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 12:10:21 GMT
I personally think FTL is the hard sci-fi equivalent of a lightsaber. Theoretically possible, but never actually doable. I should point out that I'm neither a scientist nor an engineer, so hey what do I know? Oh no it is theoretically impossible. Nothing that has mass can travel at the speed of light. I did know that. But I think we're talking about things like warp drives, frame shift drives and whatnot. You know, those devices in science fiction that somehow bend space-time around a spaceship, allowing it to travel very, very fast. Faster than light, even. |
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Post by Avengium on Jun 16, 2016 13:56:10 GMT
Oh no it is theoretically impossible. Nothing that has mass can travel at the speed of light. I did know that. But I think we're talking about things like warp drives, frame shift drives and whatnot. You know, those devices in science fiction that somehow bend space-time around a spaceship, allowing it to travel very, very fast. Faster than light, even. warp drives, Alcubierre Drive, Einstein-Rosen Bridges, these are science things. With equations and formulas.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2016 17:33:04 GMT
This has to be one of my favourite photos in astronomy. Point the Hubble telescope at a seemingly black part of space, let it absorb as much light as possible, and it reveals countless galaxies. Galaxies. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 3:31:24 GMT
Gonna revive this thread cause of the discovery of a system with several Earth-likes. The TRAPPIST-1 System.  Future colony perhaps?  |
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Post by Avengium on Feb 23, 2017 13:56:42 GMT
Trppist-1 is 40 light years away from us. I'm gonna read the thread of Trappist-1 in the forum of Orion's Arm Universe Project and how they plain to reach that system. Maybe "uploading". Edit1: www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2715Seven Earth-Sized Planets They think the system is too young. |
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Post by Devilfish on Apr 15, 2017 14:17:44 GMT
NASA released a new photo of the Earth at night. Check out -> the NASA site<- to get the full picute. The big one nearly crashed my laptop, but you can see so many details, it's amazing  |
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