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Some News About Nasa

by tasir
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i was watching a documentary our solar system and how its placement in the milky way is the reason why theres a lot of crazy crap going on. like dogs humping flag poles. mice doing back flips, and what not. wait. i mean with the crazy weather.

they said it was due to the earth pacing through the most central point of the galaxy where gravity is the strongest.

i kinda makes sense.

something to rant and rave about. i guess.
  • Profile picture of the author taskemann
    You're wrong. Our Solar System is on the edge of the Milky Way, in one of its "arms" and our Solar System have ALWAYS been in the same place.




    The Milky Way rotate as almost every Galaxy do, but it's matter stays in the same place quite well because of the dark matter that keep the galaxies together. The reason why the dark matter keep the galaxies together is because the matter from the objects in the galaxies like stars, planets, gas and dust doesn't have enough gravity to keep the galaxies together by itself. So dark matter MUST exist.

    Our Solar System will NEVER pass through the center of our galaxy!
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by taskemann View Post

      You're wrong. Our Solar System is on the edge of the Milky Way, in one of its "arms" and our Solar System have ALWAYS been in the same place.




      The Milky Way rotate as almost every Galaxy do, but it's matter stays in the same place quite well because of the dark matter that keep the galaxies together. The reason why the dark matter keep the galaxies together is because the matter from the objects in the galaxies like stars, planets, gas and dust doesn't have enough gravity to keep the galaxies together by itself. So dark matter MUST exist.

      Our Solar System will NEVER pass through the center of our galaxy!
      Whatever, our planet has NEVER been in the same place. In fact, given the size and all, it may never even be within a mile of whereever it ever was. But this planet is nowhere near where it was when I started this message, and certainly not when you posted your message. And the galaxy doesn't rotate. All within it do. THAT is why everything changes relative to everything else.

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      • Profile picture of the author taskemann
        The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that looks much like a pinwheel, and just like a pinwheel our galaxy is spinning. Stars in the arms of the galaxy are orbiting about the center, and the entire disk of stars, gas and dust is rotating at approximately 270 kilometers per second (168 miles/second), which translates to 970,000 kilometers/hr (600,000 miles per hour).

        This rate of rotation means that the Solar System – which is 28,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way – completely orbits the galaxy about every 225 million years. The last time we were in the same place in our orbit, dinosaurs were just starting to appear on the Earth.

        And when I wrote that the Solar System is always at the same place, I meant that our Solar System always keep its position in our galaxy because it is located in a quiet "arm" in our galaxy and not in the violent core! Our Solar System will never race through the core of the Milky Way which have a lot of black holes, high density of stars which has no fixed positions and lots of other activities as the OP thought.

        It has been a lot of controversy around "what's spinning the galaxies?". Until lately, the astrophysicists thought is was because of the black holes in the center of the galaxies or/and the gravity from the core. But when the theory about dark matter showed up, this has been the main theory of what's rotating the galaxies while it keep it in place/order.

        And to the OP; Was this documentary from this century? Or was it from the late 19 century or from the early 20 century?


        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        Whatever, our planet has NEVER been in the same place. In fact, given the size and all, it may never even be within a mile of whereever it ever was. But this planet is nowhere near where it was when I started this message, and certainly not when you posted your message. And the galaxy doesn't rotate. All within it do. THAT is why everything changes relative to everything else.

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        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        Whatever, our planet has NEVER been in the same place. In fact, given the size and all, it may never even be within a mile of whereever it ever was. But this planet is nowhere near where it was when I started this message, and certainly not when you posted your message. And the galaxy doesn't rotate. All within it do. THAT is why everything changes relative to everything else.

        Steve
        Ladies and Gentleman, proof that the United States education system is indeed broken. The galaxy does not spin/rotate?

        And the Earth has NEVER been in the same place more than once? Really? But if we are dealing with a stationary galaxy, how does that make sense?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    Wouldn't be a space thread without

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    It's the hair. Have you seen it's evolution?!

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    • Profile picture of the author taskemann
      Originally Posted by Joe Robinson View Post

      It's the hair. Have you seen it's evolution?!
      Joe. I know you love Jersey Shore so I created this one especially for you:

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    I think it's the..



    Which does it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    I don't mind the blowout. I don't know if you've seen the show or not; but Pauly D (the one pictured) the most stereotypical guido of the group, is also the most likeable of them. It surprised the hell of me.
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      Originally Posted by Joe Robinson View Post

      I don't mind the blowout. I don't know if you've seen the show or not; but Pauly D (the one pictured) the most stereotypical guido of the group, is also the most likeable of them. It surprised the hell of me.
      Joe. When you tipped me about the show in a earlier thread last week or when it was, I figured out that the show are shown on Norwegian MTV too. I didn't use to watch on that channel so I didn't know about that before I Googled for it.

      I decided to watch just one episode of it and only one! But now I sit glued in front of the screen every evening and watch it, but I do not know why. Maybe it's because I get sort of an inner peace within me when I see the bimbos' fighting all the time..

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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    I'm actually rewatching all of the episodes in order myself. Here are some reasons that come to mind off the top of my head:

    Morbid fascination.
    Sammie and Ron's relationship crap reminds everyone of their own crap.
    The endless debate about just how fake Jenni's...er, "friends" are.
    Snooki. Jesus, how did natural selection not take her out?
    I laugh when I watch Deena, she reminds me of Kyle's mom from South Park
    Angelina (season 1-2), I just like to hate that girl. Guilty pleasure.
    Mike "The Situation" is the only person I know that would brag about bringing home "grenades" every night. Makes me feel better about myself.
    Pauly and Vinny have a funny bromance thing going, and outside of picking up random floozies nightly and the whole guido look are actually relatively normal/drama free. I would hang out with them.
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    • Profile picture of the author taskemann
      Originally Posted by Joe Robinson View Post

      I laugh when I watch Deena, she reminds me of Kyle's mom from South Park


      And Pauly D remindes me of Kyle (or reversed). But that's maybe because Kyle's mom in fact is from New Jersey and it's just a Jersey thing to be like / look like that!
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Galaxies (disk anyway) not only rotate - sometimes they crash. Our arm of the galaxy is mixed with bodies from the Sagittarius Galaxy according to recent theory. I can't remember how long ago they said the galaxies collided, but I'm wondering if our solar system was originally Sagittarian.

    Anyway - the disk isn't SOLID - the arms wave just a tad. What the OP is saying is that the arm is waving up to a position that if you drew a line all the way across the galaxy, everything would be in line, unlike normally when one arm will drift up a tad and another maybe down a tad. The arms don't drift far - you have centrifugal force keeping them fairly in line - but when all the arms are completely aligned the solar system gets more direct cosmic winds than it does if the arm drifts up or down just a tad.

    There's all sorts of ideas about what that cosmic wind will do. We've never experienced that kind of an alignment before (I mean we - humans). The earth has - it's still here and supporting life so it wasn't anything exceptionally major. Just like all the planets aligning, too - it's happened before but you're going to get some logical, and some very whacked theories about the effects.

    One of the things I thought of about the galactic alignment -- okay, take this with a grain of salt....I was smokin' a fattie and having fun, this wasn't serious science, just rambling about what if's from serious science. ... okay....
    Cosmic wind has a lot of particles in it -- what if it's like dust and when a cloud of it hits the sun with direct force, it's like lighting a torch and tossing it into a room full of blowing sawdust? LMAO.

    I freaking LOVE science.
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    Jimmy - you're from Norway and even over there they understand Jersey is weirdness? I knew they were a bit whacked, but didn't know they were world famous for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author taskemann
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Jimmy - you're from Norway and even over there they understand Jersey is weirdness? I knew they were a bit whacked, but didn't know they were world famous for it.
      Well.. We have A LOT of American TV shows here like Cops, Fear Factory USA, Doctor Phil, Oprah, World's Wildest Police Videos, Americas Funniest Home Videos and even Jersey Shoore which all is shown on Norwegian TV channels. It's the same in Sweden and in Denmark too.

      They don't have to be "world famous" because of that. It's just we here in Scandinavia who love American TV shows I think.


      And Sal. You're right when you wrote that galaxies use to collide with each other. Our galaxy the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in 4 billion years or so (if I don't remember wrong). But the chance that some of the galaxies stars including solar systems are going to collide with each other or anything else is very minimal as it is an enormous amount of empty space in the galaxies. For every star, for example, there is empty space equal to the volume of many billions and billions of stars.

      Our own galaxy the Milky Way are in fact the result of many galaxies which has collided with each other in the early phase of the universe right after galaxies startet to form.
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