• The Moon, Home to the Coldest Temperatures in our Solar System.
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[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;17363183]$20 says the New Horizons probe, upon entering the Kuiper Belt, is going to accidentally collide with a comet. Any takers?[/QUOTE] Well, a probe had successfully gone through, I think it was Saturn's, asteroid belt, and only got hit by smoke sized particles.
[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17363196]Well, a probe had successfully gone through, I think it was Saturn's, asteroid belt, and only got hit by smoke sized particles.[/QUOTE] Saturn's rings consist of smoke-sized particles, with a few others in between. We've barely mapped the Kuiper belt at all, it'd be like that scene in Armageddon when the two shuttles are behind the OMGWTFBBQ Asteroid.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;17363215]Saturn's rings consist of smoke-sized particles, with a few others in between. We've barely mapped the Kuiper belt at all, it'd be like that scene in Armageddon when the two shuttles are behind the OMGWTFBBQ Asteroid.[/QUOTE] Well, the only good answer is to wait 6 years and find out. Hopefully, it doesn't collide. I'd rather it survive, that way we can learn a little more about Pluto.
Brrr. How do they know how cold Pluto is, though? I mean, obviously they can judge for distance and such but how is it they think they can be correct to the degree when Pluto's so far away? [QUOTE=cccritical;17361440]Thought the title was "The Moon, Home to the Moon Bear" I'm disappointed but this is cool too[/QUOTE] Why the fuck would you think it said that? Nothing in the title resembles "bear" and nothing else resembles a second instance of the word "moon". Honestly I'm getting tired of "DOHOH I THOT IT SED ______ LOL :v:" posts in every news thread.
[QUOTE=gnome;17363293]Brrr. How do they know how cold Pluto is, though? Why the fuck would you think it said that? Nothing in the title resembles "bear" and nothing else resembles a second instance of the word "moon". Honestly I'm getting tired of "DOHOH I THOT IT SED ______ LOL :v:" posts in every news thread.[/QUOTE] Honestly, I agree.
Coldest observed temperatures, anyway. Simple math can make an accurate estimation to temperatures on Pluto, but until you fly over it with a heat camera you won't know for sure. I do find it hard to believe one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn doesn't have a permanently shadowed polar crater.
FUCK that's awesome
New Horizons is going to be chased by a rogue asteroid and it'll chase it into pluto where the pluto sized asteroid and pluto will collide, crushing the probe in between, and cause a fucking cool explosion that NASA will record with a Sony HD Handycam with the eyepiece stuck behind the worlds most powerful telescope and then upload it to youtube and everyone will suscribe.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;17367288]New Horizons is going to be chased by a rogue asteroid and it'll chase it into pluto where the pluto sized asteroid and pluto will collide, crushing the probe in between, and cause a fucking cool explosion that NASA will record with a Sony HD Handycam with the eyepiece stuck behind the worlds most powerful telescope and then upload it to youtube and everyone will suscribe.[/QUOTE] Um... What?
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;17367288]New Horizons is going to be chased by a rogue asteroid and it'll chase it into pluto where the pluto sized asteroid and pluto will collide, crushing the probe in between, and cause a fucking cool explosion that NASA will record with a Sony HD Handycam with the eyepiece stuck behind the worlds most powerful telescope and then upload it to youtube and everyone will suscribe.[/QUOTE] I wish I thought of that.
[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17367737]Um... What?[/QUOTE] Trust me. EVERYONE will subscribe to NASA's channel after this happens.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;17363183]$20 says the New Horizons probe, upon entering the Kuiper Belt, is going to accidentally collide with a comet. Any takers?[/QUOTE] No, since most asteroids in so called 'asteroid belts' are in fact millions of miles apart. These belts are only relatively densely populated in comparison with the rest of the solar system which is compromised of mostly nothing with the odd planet thrown in here and there. Chances of the probe hitting anything are miniscule. Also, the coldest known place in the solar system is Finland. Specifically in the Helsinki University of Technology Low Temperatures lab.
[QUOTE=Lord Pirate;17374216]No, since most asteroids in so called 'asteroid belts' are in fact millions of miles apart. These belts are only relatively densely populated in comparison with the rest of the solar system which is compromised of mostly nothing with the odd planet thrown in here and there. Chances of the probe hitting anything are miniscule.[/quote] Actually, between the miles of asteroids are millions of particles of dust and ice, all dereiving from said asteroids. It wouldn't be chaos, but it wouldn't be pleasant either. [quote=Lord Pirate] Also, the coldest known place in the solar system is Finland. Specifically in the Helsinki University of Technology Low Temperatures lab.[/QUOTE] If joke, cool. If not, then let it be known that it's talking about natural temperatures, and on the scale of planets/moons.
[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17374999] If joke, cool. If not, then let it be known that it's talking about natural temperatures, and on the scale of planets/moons.[/QUOTE] My fuck you are an idiot.
Imagine throwing a cup of water.
[QUOTE=CanibalMonke;17374999]If joke, cool. If not, then let it be known that it's talking about natural temperatures, and on the scale of planets/moons.[/QUOTE] He means they have reached near absolute zero in laboratories in Finland. He's not joking. :downs:
wow this is cool shit
[QUOTE=Wayword;17361530]The moon also rotates... The dark side of the moon never sees Earth, but it sees the sun. Even if there are craters that don't get sun, the moon still rotates and gets sunlight on both sides.[/QUOTE] There are SOME small areas of the moon that NEVER see the sun thanks to its tilt. Just like how some places basically don't see the sun for months at a time on Earth... except on the moon it's like that forever in certain places.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;17361624]Just because we can't prove something, doesn't mean it can't exist. Just because I don't know the geographical location of an underwater pipeline, doesn't mean it doesn't exist, for example.[/QUOTE] um yes it does
Coldest observed natural spot, that 's pretty cool. I would not say coldest spot in the solar system as we can't prove that there aren't other spots in the system that are colder.
Holy crap.
[QUOTE=40kplayer;17396742]He means they have reached near absolute zero in laboratories in Finland. He's not joking. :downs:[/QUOTE] I mean joking on terms of the thread, being based around planets, you twit.
[QUOTE=Wayword;17361530]The moon also rotates... The [B]dark[/B] side of the moon never sees Earth, but it sees the sun. Even if there are craters that don't get sun, the moon still rotates and gets sunlight on both sides.[/QUOTE] Really?
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;17407174]Really?[/QUOTE] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Cara-oculta-luna.jpg/585px-Cara-oculta-luna.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;17407174]Really?[/QUOTE] Yes, he's right. It may be called the dark side of the moon, but it sees the sun for just as long as the side we always see. You see, the moon is tidally locked to the Earth meaning that its rotational period is identical to its oribital period, so, in other words, the same side of the moon ALWAYS faces the body that it's orbiting which is us: Earth. It's not locked to the sun, in which case one side WOULD literally be a 'dark side' (never seeing the light of its star).
[QUOTE=PieClock;17396561]Imagine throwing a cup of water.[/QUOTE] If I'm correct, it would explode, not boom explode, but explode in the sense of rapid decompression.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;17430053]If I'm correct, it would explode, not boom explode, but explode in the sense of rapid decompression.[/QUOTE] Yup. It would boil. Water molecules on Earth are forced together by the pressure of the atmosphere keeping it a liquid. No pressure on the molecules, no reason for it to stay together as a liquid, it explodes into vapour. Very dramatic.
[QUOTE=sltungle;17430649]Yup. It would boil. Water molecules on Earth are forced together by the pressure of the atmosphere keeping it a liquid. No pressure on the molecules, no reason for it to stay together as a liquid, it explodes into vapour. Very dramatic.[/QUOTE] Would this happen to every liquid, even with a Hydrogen Bond in it?
[QUOTE=40kplayer;17430725]Would this happen to every liquid, even with a Hydrogen Bond in it?[/QUOTE] In space? Almost certainly.
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