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Quote from: WildcatNkilt on March 19, 2014, 09:02:15 AMThe thought of Universes upon Universes out there is mind blowing. We need to hurry up and develop warp speed so I can travel the solar systems. galaxies. universes. Warp speed would even get you out of our galaxy...Star trek took place entirely in the milky way, noob.
The thought of Universes upon Universes out there is mind blowing. We need to hurry up and develop warp speed so I can travel the solar systems. galaxies. universes.
Quote from: ksucrcoop on March 19, 2014, 10:10:41 AMQuote from: WildcatNkilt on March 19, 2014, 09:02:15 AMThe thought of Universes upon Universes out there is mind blowing. We need to hurry up and develop warp speed so I can travel the solar systems. galaxies. universes. Warp speed would even get you out of our galaxy...Star trek took place entirely in the milky way, noob.Right but what else do you call it? Lightning speed wouldn't get us there.
Quote from: WildcatNkilt on March 19, 2014, 10:22:40 AMQuote from: ksucrcoop on March 19, 2014, 10:10:41 AMQuote from: WildcatNkilt on March 19, 2014, 09:02:15 AMThe thought of Universes upon Universes out there is mind blowing. We need to hurry up and develop warp speed so I can travel the solar systems. galaxies. universes. Warp speed would even get you out of our galaxy...Star trek took place entirely in the milky way, noob.Right but what else do you call it? Lightning speed wouldn't get us there.it would seem we would need something faster than light speed.
First-Ever Asteroid With Rings
The flower you see in this animation isn't NASA’s attempt to celebrate the coming of spring. It’s actually the latest design in a cutting-edge effort to take pictures of planets orbiting stars far from the sun.Astronomers have been indirectly detecting exoplanets for more than 15 years, but actually taking a picture of one has proven an immensely difficult task. Picking out the dim light of a planet from a star billions of times brighter is akin to finding a needle in a cosmic haystack, especially when the planet in question is a small, rocky world similar to Earth. In order to achieve this feat, researchers are developing techniques to block out the starlight while preserving the light emitted by the planet. This is called starlight suppression.It’s a task that NASA’s flower-shaped starshade is designed to make easier. Working in conjunction with a space-based telescope, the starshade is able to position itself precisely between the telescope and the star that’s being observed, and can block the starlight before it even reaches the telescope’s mirrors.With the starlight suppressed, light coming from exoplanets orbiting the star would be visible. Using this technology, astronomers would be able to take actual pictures of exoplanets – images that could provide clues as to whether such worlds could support life as we know it.Source and further reading:http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/video/15Video source:NASA | Flower Power Starshade Unfurls in Space [HD]
enceladus, saturn's 6th largest moon, has an ocean larger than lake superior but is buried under icei already set up a base camp so when yellowstone blows we can head there. it only has a 300 mile diameter so don't invite your extended families and neighbors
What do you mean confirmed? Did they get samples?
As Cassini sped past the Saturnian moon, researchers used Nasa's Deep Space Network of giant antennas to monitor signals reaching Earth from the spacecraft's onboard radio. They looked for subtle shifts in the frequency of the radiowaves, which revealed whether the spacecraft was speeding up or slowing down. The measuring technique exploits the Doppler effect, which explains why the siren of a police car has a higher pitch as it approaches, and a lower pitch as it heads away.Cassini, the scientists discovered, sped up and slowed down by a few millimeters per second as it flew past Enceladus. Some of the change in speed was down to variations in the gravitational field of the moon as a result of different densities of material under the surface.After taking account of other factors that could alter the spacecraft's speed, such as drag from the plumes of water vapor, and even the modest pressure produced by sunlight, the researchers created a map of the gravitational field of Enceladus.The shape of the gravitational field pointed to something more dense than ice – but less dense than rock – deep beneath the south pole of the moon. "Given the kinds of materials we know are used to make bodies like this, the natural thing to look for is water, because water is more dense than ice, and because it's a natural thing to have in that environment," said Stevenson.tl;dr They calculated that the miniscule variations in speed of the cassini probe as it passed by the moon, could only be caused by the gravitational effects of a body of water.
So definitely not confirmed. Thanks.
Quote from: Mr Bread on April 03, 2014, 08:56:48 PMSo definitely not confirmed. Thanks. so we need a sample now? oh crap, how many planets and suns just vanished feom the sky because we don't have samples
take it to the creationist or global warming thread, bread.
they can see that it's an iceball with a telescope. they hypo'd that there might be some water under there. they observed a change in speed. apply the doppler effect and it's case closed, this baby has water. and ast should colonize.
