Telescope Snaps Colorful 'Stellar Nursery'

benne841

06:12 AMJul 21 2009

"When a scientist says something is possible, he is almost certainly right, when he says something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong."

benne841

05:51 AMJul 21 2009

Kcdgenius 01:49 PMJul 13 2009 benne841 SAYS:"..There are a number of ways to get around the "light-speed@@@@@@@ As I understand it, matter does not GENERATE gravity, it ATTRACTS gravity by its mass. The greater the mass, the more gravity matter attracts. But if gravity is a fundimental force, along with electromagnetism and the two atomic forces, and these forces existed before anything else, in the form of a Unified field, they merely adapted to the local physics ( the physics of our own universe). Is it possible to attract gravity, or even generate gravity by artifical means? No physical law seems to forbid it. It is therefore, in my opinion, an engineering problem. One that could take a long time to solve: hundreds of years, maybe thousands of years, but still possible. The fact remains, space can expand faster than light. Control that expansion, and you've got yourself a starship. Same with wormholes. No physical laws forbid it. That makes it possible. To paraphrase Clark: ...

benne841

05:03 AMJul 21 2009

Kcdgenius 01:42 PMJul 13 2009 benne841 SAYS:"....Where water is found, life has been found. Always. No exceptions...." what are you talking about? Life has been found in improbable locations ON EARTH, but we have found zero evidence of life anywhere OFF the earth so far. We have found water signatures in many places, including comets that orbit out way past Pluto, but no reason think that water automatically equals life. Life as we know it is based on molecules astronomically more complex that H2O.@@@@@ As yet, no extraterrestrial water has been anaylized for life. As far as I know, we have yet to place a drop of water from any planet, moon or comet......As yet, no place where liquid water has been found has life not been found. Physics and chemistry are bound by the same laws everywhere. If life happened here, it could happen anywhere chemical reactions take place over a long period of time. I have no doubt that the first underground river or lake on Mars is found, life will...

Kcdgenius

01:49 PMJul 13 2009

benne841 SAYS:"..There are a number of ways to get around the "light-speed" barrier..." you are quoting scientific speculation as if it were a done deal. Warping time/space requires a incredible amount of mass. To warp space significantly (to speed up travel) you would need a massive black hole. Problem now is, how to you move the black hole along, and have it warp space only in one direction, and not the other, while you ride along on the same vessle? As for worm holes, that is a mathematical speculation. There is NO evidence of any worm holes ever being observed. SciFi is fun, but it doenst get us to the next star system.

Kcdgenius

01:42 PMJul 13 2009

benne841 SAYS:"....Where water is found, life has been found. Always. No exceptions...." what are you talking about? Life has been found in improbable locations ON EARTH, but we have found zero evidence of life anywhere OFF the earth so far. We have found water signatures in many places, including comets that orbit out way past Pluto, but no reason think that water automatically equals life. Life as we know it is based on molecules astronomically more complex that H2O.

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benne841

03:59 PMJul 11 2009

There are a number of ways to get around the "light-speed" barrier. One, not quite like Star Trek, would be a Warp Drive. Energy is limited by the speed of light. Matter is limited to just below the speed of light. Sace itself is not limited to the speed of light. Space can expand at many time the speed of light. Figure out how to warp space around a spacecraft like a blanket - expanding space ahead of the craft and contracting it behind- FTL flight would be possible. It would not be the starship itself, but the space its wrapped in that would travel faster than light. This is an engineering problem that probably will not be solved for several hundred years, if not thousands, but it does no violate the laws of physics. Another is wormholes. Another engineering problen. Figure out how to link two points in space together without traveling the distance between them and you could move from one star system to another in minutes. Fast enough to build an interstellar empire with all that wou...

benne841

03:32 PMJul 11 2009

The burger analogy is a good one. I believe there is life elsewhere in the galaxy because our sun is just one among trillions. Hundreds of planets have been found orbiting some of those distance suns and more are found every year. Where water is found, life has been found. Always. No exceptions. Perhaps, eventually, exceptions will be found. Maybe. But even astronimers who hold the view that intelligent life may be rare, or even that multicellular life may be rare hold the opinion that simple one cell organisms are quite common. We will most likely find life in our own solar system. On Mars. In the atmospheres of Venus, Jupitor, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, in the oceans of Europa and Enceladus, the seas of Ganymede and Titan. The discovery that life does NOT exist in huge oceans, large seas, rivers and lakes, even underground, would be an incredible discovery in itself.

Kcdgenius

09:11 AMJul 10 2009

Noticed the photo of the apollo 11 LM on the moon, obviously a scale model on a fabricated landscape. I see three thing wrong with the photo, just from a quick glance: 1. there is no engine blast area under the lander where the dust would have been blown outward when it landed. 2. The LM is in twilight, the apollo missions were always in full sunlight for the length of their mission. 3. There are no lights in the window, and no footprints around the LM - is the creww taking a nap just after landing?!?!

STaRgAzEr33154

06:41 AMJul 10 2009

TrekkinBob 10:46 PMJul 10 2009 STaRgAzEr33154 09:52 PMJul 10 2009 Skptc101 09:34 PMJul 10 2009 10,000 years ago our ancestors, gazing at the sky, probably thought we would never travel to the moon. lol. 10,000 years from now, our descendants will probably wonder why we thought , gazing at the edge of the universe, we would never be able to travel at the speed of light. lol..........@@@@@ with my ancestors I'm sure they did travel to the moon and beyond..just depends what magical potions and herbs....American Indians' medicine men ruled..lolol.............my ancestors lived 10,000 yrs ago, and they wee right.@@@ *WINK*