I've said similar before, just been viewing the night sky with a telescope, there's summat about our Solar System with all the cool stuff up there that blows my mind more than anything in the world.

 

Seriously if I could, I would love to go up and see with my own eyes, maybe one day people will visit places like Mars, but they haven't even got the machine or the right spacesuits yet, Saturn is an amazing planet, with it's surrounding rings and moons, to think our Solar System is just a small part of the universe is unreal, Earth is a tiny spec, if that.

 

 

Anymore space geeks on here

Edited January 10, 201115 yr by DidledeeBwfc

I'm not going to take the piss for once. Didle, did you watch the star gazing programme on BBC2 last week with Brian Cox, the coolest geek in the whole wide world.

Ah caunt speyk

Man on Mars will never happen.

 

Diddle's, if your into earth / space sciences then I highly recommend the book 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'.

"An asteroid or comet traveling at cosmic velocities would enter the Earth?s atmosphere at such a speed that the air beneath it couldn?t get out of the way and would be compressed, as in a bicycle pump. As anyone who has used such a pump knows, compressed air grows swiftly hot, and the temperature below it would rise to some 60,000 Kelvin, or ten times the surface temperature of the Sun. In this instant of its arrival in our atmosphere, everything in the meteor?s path?people, houses, factories, cars?would crinkle and vanish like cellophane in a flame. One second after entering the atmosphere, the meteorite would slam into the Earth?s surface"

Have you ever looked at Uranus?

Diddle's, if your into earth / space sciences then I highly recommend the book 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'.

 

 

No offence to Didle but I think that'll hurt his head & make it spin round, don't you?

No offence to Didle but I think that'll hurt his head & make it spin round, don't you?

 

 

Hah, it might well in places.

Our Sun is 1 of a hundred million suns in our solar system, theres a billion solar systems in the universe

try and get your head around that!

Our Sun is 1 of a hundred million suns in our solar system, theres a billion solar systems in the universe

try and get your head around that!

 

The Sun is the name of a star. So technically there is only one 'Sun'.

I do a bit of ceiling inspecting whilst out walking the pooch of an evening. F?ck me there's some action out there at night & most of it's already happened before I was born. Now how's that not a ridiculous thought?

Where's Eric Idle when you need him.

Is there life elsewhere in the solar system / Universe / wherever?

 

There's bound to be

 

We are just not technologically advanced to go and search for it and though all this UFO mumbo Jumbo does my head in there could be a civilisation somewhere capable of travelling to Earth. That said who fuckin knows

 

Oh fuck It one more can of special brew then bed

Diddles, I am both suprised and pleased for you.

 

That there big black mass we live in is indeed a huge box of questions.

 

I do a bit of ceiling inspecting whilst out walking the pooch of an evening. F?ck me there's some action out there at night & most of it's already happened before I was born. Now how's that not a ridiculous thought?

 

Indeed it is. I often try to get my head around the fact that some of the specs of light are many decades ago.

 

also if you went up and looked at our solar system and the shapes of constellations they would alter because they're in three dimensions not two.

 

Mind blowing!

Man on Mars will never happen.

 

Diddle's, if your into earth / space sciences then I highly recommend the book 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'.

 

 

I read (most of) that a few years ago during one of my Bryson phases and by fuck it was hard work!! It stares at me on my bookshelf saying 'finish me, you know you want to....the quantum mechanics bit is a proper giggle, come on, get stuck in'.

The Sun is the name of a star. So technically there is only one 'Sun'.

 

I know that, you know that, I am trying to explain it to diddles though

Is there life elsewhere in the solar system / Universe / wherever?

 

There's bound to be

 

We are just not technologically advanced to go and search for it and though all this UFO mumbo Jumbo does my head in there could be a civilisation somewhere capable of travelling to Earth. That said who fuckin knows

 

Oh fuck It one more can of special brew then bed

 

There was a programme on a few weeks back about this, some Sex-case Asrononer, worked out some calculations, he calculated that of the billions on planets out there 80k of which would have life, and 20k of these would have intelligent life, life is definitely out there but the sheer distance makes is nigh on impossible that we would ever come into contact with them. nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, some of these planets are hundreds of millions of lightyears away, and you think getting to the Reebok on match day is a ball ache

Our Sun is 1 of a hundred million suns in our _{solar system}Galaxy, theres a billion _{solar systems}Galaxies in the universe

try and get your head around that!

HTH

Just think, Diddles could be having a pint with Frank Gallagher in the spaceship 'The Jockey'

I couldn't rule out other lifeforms because the universe is so large, we live in a world created by something, we live in a world that is so tiny but to our eyes seems so vast, places like Mars once had water flowing through it's surface[now mainly rock and dust], it has canyons/mountains/etc that make the Grand Canyon/Mount Everest seem like a grain of sand.

 

The only thing about other lifeforms is what language would they use? the alphabet is an earth thing, so what would they use, if they say summat and it contains our letters, if they have things such as everyday objects like us, what would they call them and what would they be, the things we have created have been created on earth.

 

But then again, maybe there is another Earth out there, maybe not called earth, but with an atmosphere and 'people' thinking the same questions we do, but the technology isn't available and the distance is to far. Robots have taken over 9 years to get to some plants, it would take around 1000 years to get to some of the planets in our solar system[going about 60mph] now rockets/spaceships go much faster, but what would it take to explore much much more, summat created this place we call home, It's certainly a mystery that will probably go unsolved, but it doesn't half make my mind go into like overdrive just thinking about it.

 

BTW I don't mean GOD, he's just as real as Santa Claus to me, as there's evidence of both, but it would be unreal to know what actually made this galaxy.

Diddles,. what's your take on The Big Bang Theory, then?

Diddles,. what's your take on The Big Bang Theory, then?

 

Traf, you have the patience of a Saint.

Beltin programme

 

Seriously not a clue, things like Dinosaur's, the universe are amazing to my mind, to think the dinosaurs went on for millions and millions of years, went through extinctions after extinctions before they got wiped out, what else do we not know.

I think to myself, what created the first dinosaur, what created the first mammal, the first human, they say that birds and other life forms survived and are from the dinosaur era, there has been so much research and people with the ability to unlock the answers and put the clues/links together, but there is so much we do not know, and probably are not advanced or have enough evidence to know.

 

I guess we'd have to travel so far into space and have a massive telescope and zoom down to earth to give us the answers, but it's impossible, and all we have on the past is what people have found and what we have been told.

Edited January 11, 201115 yr by DidledeeBwfc

Is there life elsewhere in the solar system / Universe / wherever?

 

There's bound to be

 

We are just not technologically advanced to go and search for it and though all this UFO mumbo Jumbo does my head in, Scotsmen could end up capable of travelling to England one day.That said who fuckin knows

 

Oh fuck It one more can of special brew then bed,

Have 2

I like to think theres not much that scares me in life bar one or two things, but I choose to ignore all this for no other reason than it literally shares the shit out of me.

Diddles, you didn't need to confirm you're a moonman. We all knew

 

Because of the mind boggling distances involved, I doubt we will ever know what other life is out there but the law of averages suggests that it must exist. Maybe wormholes and black holes will be the path if we could reach one and have the b0llocks to pass through one. Euclidean space - space/time continuum and all that stuff. Who knows. Good stuff for giving the grey matter a workout mind.

Edited January 11, 201115 yr by bolty58