Outer Space Thread

[doe_boy]

Voyager leaves heliosphere?

http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archiv ... 3-11.shtml

I can't wait until it comes back from the other way

Star Trek: The Motion Picture covered that contingency.

[ghostrunner]

This should get the country back on track.

http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=43632

NASA Internal Memo:

Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review.

[pioneer98]

Universe older than previously thought

[JackofDiamonds]

Universe older than previously thought

This can probably be posted once a year. Also add "larger" and "contains more Earth-like planets."

[jim]

It's big and it's old.

I think space is cool.

[JackofDiamonds]

It's big and it's old.

I think space is cool.

It's really cool.

If something like the Grand Canyon is a breathe-taking spectacle that you can't conceive of until you see it in person, our solar system alone is mind-blowing. I don't think we can even fathom how cool space really is.

[Arthur Dent]

Universe older than previously thought

This can probably be posted once a year. Also add "larger" and "contains more Earth-like planets."

It's actually kind of amazing how small the revision is. The previous best estimate was 13.73 billion and now it moves to 13.82 billion with much less uncertainty. The fact that we can estimate the age of the universe with 4 significant figures is ... impressive.

[JackofDiamonds]

Universe older than previously thought

This can probably be posted once a year. Also add "larger" and "contains more Earth-like planets."

It's actually kind of amazing how small the revision is. The previous best estimate was 13.73 billion and now it moves to 13.82 billion with much less uncertainty. The fact that we can estimate the age of the universe with 4 significant figures is ... impressive.

Absolutely, I am not saying that it's not impressive, but that as our knowledge grows, the universe seems to become grander.

[lukethedrifter]

http://www.distancetomars.com/

[robbotis]

I just read a bunch of the Kubrick-The Shinging as a Moon Conspiracy confession stuff.
Pretty amazing.
But with a Kubrick movie like that, you could come up w/ just about any theory and fit it in his awesome, open, vague sort of way.