Space and Science BS Thread

To go along with this.. this is all the energy there will ever be. No more can be created. According to the first law of thermodynamics

 

and it will destroy our solar system

fun fact

all of the planets in our solar system are just dust bunnies leftover from the creation of our sun

 

Well the good news is we will be ripped apart by colliding with another galaxy before we die from the sun turning into a red giant so that's a plus

 

The better news..... none of us will be here to see it

 

fun fact #2

the whole "destruction by galaxy" thing is half true, half false

there's quintillions of trillions of billions of miles between stars and matter from each other within galaxies

even if two galaxies were to collide, the possibility of something "hitting" us or our solar system are remote

 

This is true however the gravity of everything "could" change which could cause the earth to move that fraction of an AU that keeps it in the habitable zone..


Fun fact #3.
There is a 1-3 km wide asteroid headed towards mars. If it hits Mars at the size it is now the result will be an explosion with the energy of 35 million megatons of TNT but in comparison the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was almost 3x as powerful

 

I'm glad this project is still going to happen

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

For anyone unsure why this is so important

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/comparison.html

The JWST will be able to see further back in time than the Hubble. And yes, when it comes to space, distance is measure in time. It blows my mind what this telescope will be able to see. This telescope will orbit earth more than 2500 times further away then the Hubble. This telescope can collect 7 times the amount of light as the Hubble which is what allows it to see so much further!

Maybe I'm weird but that advancement is very exciting to me lol

 

Agreed, very sad. Most americans want science to keep their cock hard and hair on their head.

 

That's not necessarily a bad thing though...

 

As long as its that plus other things I'm fine with it lol. When its only those things its sad

 

I appreciate that!

The engineering dept has a 5 axis cnc and even as a freshman, my son is learning CAD/CAM programming and they're free to machine their ideas as they wish. The science dept looks like a university laboratory. They have an audio visual dept the size of a news studio with green screens and all. They have a culinary dept that looks like a commercial hotel kitchen. It's insane what they have available to them now.

 

My school cared more about paying 10 mil for a turf football field (for a team that nobody watched) than it cared about my education

 

http://www.gobankingrates.com/savings-account/bcs-payouts-worth-cost-attend-rose-bowl-schools/

 

My high school.

 

I don't think my hschool has collectively had 10m in its 100 year gistory

 

I have no idea how mine got it.. No famous Alum, less than 1000 students total, small town.. No clue

 

Oh Kona.. so we have the Andromeda galaxy collision, the Sun turning into a Red Giant, Mars may collide with earth, and there is an orange dwarf on a collision course with our solar system.

The orange dwarf will happen the soonest at 1.5 million years from now

 

I found this article interesting the other day...

It's Raining Diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter

http://gizmodo.com/its-literally-raining-diamonds-on-saturn-and-jupiter-1445016533

 

And it will happen so slowly that whatever humans have become by that time would be able to adapt.
It's not going to change overnight... it will span multiple generations.

Reading on it, it seems unlikely. "Best case" taking uncertainty into account, it will pass more than one Martian LD from the planet.
Deimos orbits at about 15,000 miles, Phobos at only 6,000, and the comet is expected to pass no closer than about 27,000, and more likely over 64,000 miles.

But I really wish it would strike. We would be able to get some awesome data from the rovers.

 

Hair is overrated.