The Space Thread

[Viktor Karpenko]

Talk about space in general.

Anything seems possible out there. Who's to say it's not?

The coolest planet found until now, Kepler-186f, is just slightly larger than Earth (radius 1.1) and is in the habitable zone.

http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-k ... 1AZzVdZrZ4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Also, have a look at this:

right click it to enlarge.

[Miao]

The coolest planet found until now, Kepler-186f, is just slightly larger than Earth (radius 1.1) and is in the habitable zone.
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-k ... 1AZzVdZrZ4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nope!

A blue planet where it rains glass

The giant planet HD 189733b was discovered in 2005, but scientists gained fascinating new insights about the weird world this year.

Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the exoplanet HD 189733b is blue, marking the first time that scientists have directly seen an alien world's true color. The blue is thought to result from raining molten glass on the super-windy, scorching-hot alien planet, where daytime temperatures can climb to 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius).

[MadManCK]

Hello Earthlings, nice thread

[Viktor Karpenko]

The coolest planet found until now, Kepler-186f, is just slightly larger than Earth (radius 1.1) and is in the habitable zone.
http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-k ... 1AZzVdZrZ4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nope!

A blue planet where it rains glass

The giant planet HD 189733b was discovered in 2005, but scientists gained fascinating new insights about the weird world this year.

Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the exoplanet HD 189733b is blue, marking the first time that scientists have directly seen an alien world's true color. The blue is thought to result from raining molten glass on the super-windy, scorching-hot alien planet, where daytime temperatures can climb to 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (900 degrees Celsius).

Well that's your opinion...

What about this?
Audio from Saturn: "Alien speech?"
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[Miao]

You must be retarded if you believe there's any advanced life on Saturn. They found similar things with all the Gas Giants, it's probably just the magnetic field. If it really was extra-terrestrial dialogue you'd have to assume it was comin' from Titan or Enceladus.

[Viktor Karpenko]

You must be retarded if you believe there's any advanced life on Saturn. They found similar things with all the Gas Giants, it's probably just the magnetic field. If it really was extra-terrestrial dialogue you'd have to assume it was comin' from Titan or Enceladus.

Lol I never said I believed there was any life on Saturn.

I just posted a video, like now.

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[Bez]

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

[MadManCK]

Maybe it is an optical illusion

More close to home, does any of you think there has been a collision with Earth in the past that shaped our planet like it is today?
Has there been, or is there still a Planet X

[Viktor Karpenko]

I do believe there was a collision betwen Earth and some Mars-sized body in the past that not only shaped our planet like it is today but that also blasted material into the orbit around Earth and formed the Moon.

[Miao]

I do believe there was a collision betwen Earth and some Mars-sized body in the past that not only shaped our planet like it is today but that also blasted material into the orbit around Earth and formed the Moon.

↑ That is known as the "Giant impact hypothesis".


The giant impact hypothesis states that the Moon was formed out of the debris left over from an indirect collision between the Earth and an astronomical body the size of Mars, approximately 4.5 Gya (four and a half billion years ago) in the Hadean eon. The colliding body is sometimes called Theia, for the mythical Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the Moon. An alternative name for the colliding body is Orpheus, for the legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth.

Has there been, or is there still a Planet X

Hmm... Nope, Planet X was disproved 6 months before Robert Harrington's death, when E. Myles Standish had used data from Voyager 2's 1989 flyby of Neptune, which had revised the planet's total mass downward by 0.5%, an amount comparable to the mass of Mars to recalculate its gravitational effect on Uranus. When Neptune's newly determined mass was used in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Developmental Ephemeris (JPL DE), the supposed discrepancies in the Uranian orbit, and with them the need for a Planet X, vanished.