Hello folks! Today I would like to bring you on a subject that has interested me for a very long time. Space. The last frontier of man. Sure we have a space station and yes, we have been to the moon. However, we have not left our Solar System, which in our galaxy (The Milky Way) which is in the wide open mysterious area known simply as 'Space'.
Let's start with something familiar. The Moon
[b] The Moon [/b]
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Our planet earth has only 1 official moon, which is, the moon. (No shit?)
The moon is 0.01 the size of Earth. We shouldn't really worry at all, but the moon is really moving at about 3.2 centimeters away from earth every year.
No one knows how it was made, but the most widely excepted possibility is that our planet of Earth was hit my a Mars sized object, causing the moon to split off and become its own little landmass over trillions of years. The moon has not been touched my maned vehicles since 1972, however many unmanned vehicles have made journeys there.
[b]Where is Earth?[/b]
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Earth is the third planet from the sun. It is the only known planet that has life. Earth's exact location is not known, however we rest in the Galaxy known as the Milky Way.
This is a picture of earth, from 6 billion kilometers or 3.7 billion miles, taken from the Voyager 1. [URL=http://img248.imageshack.us/i/530pxpalebluedot.jpg/][IMG]http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5731/530pxpalebluedot.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Now, let's travel a little further into space. How about stars? Stars are massive balls of plasma held together by gravity. The Sun is an example of a star. The sun is the start that warms life on earth and provides most of our light. The light that is hitting you when you step outside in the daytime is over 30,000 years old!
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These stars may look small in pictures, but think about this:
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Earth is invisible on that scale.
Now, there is an estimated [b]70 sextillion[/b] stars in our universe alone. Correction, in our [b]visible[/b] universe alone.
[b]Space[/b]
Space is one mystery that we may never learn all of the answers. There is so much in space for us to discover, that we will all be dead before understanding 0.01% of space. Space is a debatable subject in religion, and also the possibility of endlessness. Some people say it is a sphere, and there is nothing outside of it. Just another example of the many mysterys we may never understand fully.
Quick Facts:
If you were to take 2 metal objects into space, they would freeze together permanently if they touched.
The orignal name of our planet Uranus was George's Star
There is no official name of our solar system, but there is another name for earth and its many humans. Earth is also Terra. As for us humans? We are Terrans.
Well, I hoped I opened up the mind of you people out there. Good Bye!
I think the solar system should be called Sol.
Also, nifty little thread, short as hell though.
You fucked it up. It's not "Space: The Last Frontier". it's "Space: The Final Frontier"
I hope we can do something big in outer space before I die.
[QUOTE=blah45;21910717]You fucked it up. It's not "Space: The Last Frontier". it's "Space: The Final Frontier"[/QUOTE]
Sorry about that, but I don't see how it matters. Still keep in mind of how amazing the Universe we live in is.
space is cool
Good thread, accept you said trillions of years. It's an accepted [theory] that the universe has only been around for 13-14 billion years.
Yeah it is
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[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;21910791]space is cool[/QUOTE]
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Excuse me, but truly, the Oceans, both the Amazon and Congo, and the majority of Antarctica have yet to be fully explored. I'm sure it will be the final frontier, but it's currently not the final one.
Space is till kick-ass though. I love looking at the images of galaxies and nebula and all that in my Hubble book.
Well there is this program out there (I forget the name, like Stellarium or something) where you get a live feed from your location of a 3d solar system so you can tell where to look to see certain planets =)
I cannot wait for person space ships.
Most likely we might venture out of our solar system sometime in the future but way after my lifetime. Terra and every organism on this planet as Terrans sound pretty cool, in my opinion.
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900th post, yay me. :buddy:
More like we won't even begin to understand .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of the Universe
I can't wait till space travel is cheap enough for normal people to go.
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[QUOTE=Deweze;21912883]More like we won't even begin to understand .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of the Universe[/QUOTE]
not even
Moons aren't called Moons
they're called satellites
Our satellite is called the Moon
Lets just focus on the unexplored regions, like the oceans first and save the tax payers a few billion or trillion here and there. Might discover new drugs to help people instead of new planets for big corporations to terra farm.
Nasa's got the technology
Congress is holding us back
[QUOTE=tarkata14;21910663]I think the solar system should be called Sol.
Also, nifty little thread, short as hell though.[/QUOTE]
This isn't 40k
I've always been fascinated by the majesty at what space is. I think that in the time of humans, or "Terrans", what we discover will be truly incredible.
Space is huge!
[quote]The light that is hitting you when you step outside in the daytime is over 30,000 years old[/quote]
Don't you mean 8 minutes? It's not 30,000 Light years away
I get it now, satire, Hardie Har har
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;21913460]Moons aren't called Moons[/QUOTE]
yes they are
i like space
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Guys, we need to all put our minds together to invent something to give us immortality, because fuck space if we can't get there.
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Yeah, it's a good thing that mankind will die before he cn get to explore space.
Seriously.
Everyone knows the final frontier is women.
We know there's galaxies and shit in space. We have no idea whats in a womans mind.
And now for something completely different:
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[QUOTE=tarkata14;21910663]I think the solar system should be called Sol.
Also, nifty little thread, short as hell though.[/QUOTE]
Our solar system is already called "the sol system". Sol being the latin word for the sun. It has been called this for ages.
[QUOTE=Super_Poo;21914121]This isn't 40k[/QUOTE]
You're an idiot.
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