The Space/Cosmos Thread

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:20 pm

Couple of links for anyone unable to see it 'in the flesh' tonight. Live broadcasts here and here. Enjoy!

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:56 pm

Thanks Mexicola

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:40 pm

Welcome sir!

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:36 am

It looked beautiful online, shame i couldnt see it in person due to clouds

Spenner · Post by **Spenner** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:18 pm

This is a great site

http://www.wikisky.org/

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:24 pm

Thats incredible ! Great find.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:46 pm

That site looks like alot of fun. Will be great to use in combination with Stellarium I reckon.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:42 pm

Great site! There are people in conspiracy theory circles who dig through it to find little anomalies that signify alien life and the like! Pretty fun!

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:09 pm

I have absolutely no doubt Aliens exist. To what level of intelligence, i do not know but life HAS to exist out in the expanse of the universe. I think it's almost mathmatically impossible for there not to be.

Whether Aliens have contacted Earth is another matter but it's definitely fun reading about conspiracies and UFO sightings/instances - some are so well documented and backed by so many people it almost seems unlikely that they haven't come in contact with us. The story about that Brazilian town, who experienced multiple UFO crashes in one evening, and claimed to see the creatures themselves with almost 2000 eye witnesses across the area, absolutely insane.

It's so easy to be skeptical then instantly believe through these astonishing coincidences. Contradiction when discussing Aliens is inevitable i guess.

Anyway i didn't want to stray off the point here with Alien conspiracy as it seems to have it's own domain of discussion really. Here is something concrete for everyone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13783877

Amazing how Black holes have gone from speculative theory to concrete fact and possible arches of the universe. The Universe never ceases to amaze me.

GrangalanJr · Post by **GrangalanJr** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:01 pm

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:41 pm

So, Neptunes first birthday has passed, in that i mean it's been one Neptune year since we discovered the planet. Hurrah!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14081162

Also I am not sure if anyone uses this site, but it's got a different image/video every day - it's one of my daily checks on the internet. It's also archived back for years so lots to see.. enjoy!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:37 pm

fujee wrote:So, Neptunes first birthday has passed, in that i mean it's been one Neptune year since we discovered the planet. Hurrah!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14081162

Also I am not sure if anyone uses this site, but it's got a different image/video every day - it's one of my daily checks on the internet. It's also archived back for years so lots to see.. enjoy!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

LOVE that site.

Soooooooo many other galaxies. Yup, no possibility for anything else out there but us

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:03 am

Southern Lights - amazing

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shutt ... urora.html

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:48 am

It might be the rum talking but I don't think it is. Anyways, Mexicola is a cool cat. I mean that. I like you. After all the years of being here, youre a real cool person.

Magrathea · Post by **Magrathea** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:22 am

You're perhaps not aware, but the american congress is about to axe the James Web Space Telescope (i.e. Hubble Space Telescope successor).

Non US citizen can sign the planetary society petition here:
http://planetary.org/special/action/ind ... ional.html

US citizens, here:
http://planetary.org/special/action

If you believe in science and want to push further the amazing discoveries that only a space-based telescope can provide, you know what to do

details are here
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003099/

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:21 am

polar sky wrote:It might be the rum talking but I don't think it is. Anyways, Mexicola is a cool cat. I mean that. I like you. After all the years of being here, youre a real cool person.

Mate, I'm touched! Dunno what prompted it, but thank you kindly.

You're a good bloke Polar - GROUP HUG!!!

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:29 pm

Magrathea wrote:You're perhaps not aware, but the american congress is about to axe the James Web Space Telescope (i.e. Hubble Space Telescope successor).

Non US citizen can sign the planetary society petition here:
http://planetary.org/special/action/ind ... ional.html

US citizens, here:
http://planetary.org/special/action

If you believe in science and want to push further the amazing discoveries that only a space-based telescope can provide, you know what to do

details are here
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003099/

Sadly, i was aware, the budget has exploded out of control and been dubbed "the telescope that ate astronomy" - nevertheless this telescope is ridiculously important to the further understanding of the universe origins. Such a shame its probably going to be scrapped after all that cash being spent. Sign Up everyone!

Thanks for bringing the petition to my attention Magrathea!

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:58 pm

Mexicola wrote:
polar sky wrote:It might be the rum talking but I don't think it is. Anyways, Mexicola is a cool cat. I mean that. I like you. After all the years of being here, youre a real cool person.
Mate, I'm touched! Dunno what prompted it, but thank you kindly. You're a good bloke Polar - GROUP HUG!!!

Haha, no prob.

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:05 pm

Im just going to bump this thread everytime I want to say something, even if only a few of us post in here!

It's such a travesty that this incredible telescope could be shelved because of budget, can you place a price on the understanding of our origins? - yes this money could be spent on more pressing issues, but when you consider the money that has been spent on this project is just a minute fraction of the US military budget it's a crying shame.

The budget has grossly expanded, granted.. but everyone made these same doubts when Hubble was proposed, then when it was launched and then when fired blanks with the faulty mirror. But I hear absolutely no one doubting the monumental important facts this beautiful feat of astronomical exploration and engineering gave the world.

This project simply cannot be left aside, so far into creation.

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:14 am

Hmm...

Invest money on an instrument that will help us to better understand our origins, helping us to raise consciousness of the species, in turn helping us to become less fear based and better understand our future.

OR

Invest MILLIONS, nay, BILLIONS more on instruments of death, destruction, and terror in a fear induced society who remains clueless to its origins and place in the universe, trapped in a perpetual state of fear and ignorance which in turn causes a stalemate in consciousness...

Tough call on that one.

Oh shit, didn't they just raise the terror alert to chartreuse or something because the president took a dump?

Kidding, I'm signing the petition.

I'm starting to think petitions are a better form of reform than voting or protest. With voting, you only get the choice of corporate backed puppets who work for the same people higher up, and with protest you get shot in the fucking face. Again, tough call.

Also, I find it incredible that we would put a hold or a stop on something we've already partly built. God knows if it was a fucking bomb or something, we'd make damn sure to finish the project, and kill whoever needs to be killed in the process who tries to put a stop to it. THEN, we'd use it to KILL MORE PEOPLE AND BLOW SHIT UP!!! Aren't we fucking grand!!!?!?! NO! WE'RE SERIOUSLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGED AND FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!

I feel better now! Thanks y'all!