Addie Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 I would like to learn more about Venus please? Another fact if you wouldn't mind Confidi... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Afternoon friggers!! Whats that? Another fact you say? Ok then.. How about the pressure at the centre of Jupiter? Think of 100 elephants standing on top of each other with the bottom elephant standing on one foot – on a stiletto heel... More fun space facts to come, P&Bers! i seen something online once mate, about the theory that there is only limited energy available in the universe and as it keeps expanding it will come a time where there isnt enough energy to do anything and that the universe will simply be a big black void with nothing in it wouldnt that be fucking wild lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 i seen something online once mate, about the theory that there is only limited energy available in the universe and as it keeps expanding it will come a time where there isnt enough energy to do anything and that the universe will simply be a big black void with nothing in it wouldnt that be fucking wild lol Those are the laws of thermodynamics; energy cannot be created or destroyed, and that all energy aims for thermodynamic equilibrium - or the process we call entropy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Those are the laws of thermodynamics; energy cannot be created or destroyed, and that all energy aims for thermodynamic equilibrium - or the process we call entropy. thats the word i couldnt mind lol i'll be honest and admit that it was a theory used in a fan written 3rd season of Stargate Universe, they used entropy as a plotline and it was very intriguing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 (edited) I would like to learn more about Venus please? Another fact if you wouldn't mind Confidi... Why certainly, Adlington: If you were able to stand on the surface of Venus it would feel like being 1 kilometre under the sea on Earth, a depth deep enough to sink a submarine. A person or a creature would immediately be crushed by Venus' amazingly strong pressure. This pressure is so high, that when the Venera spacecrafts landed, they only had a few moments to take data before they were crushed and melted. Venus is the only planet in the Solar System to turn clockwise. All other planets turn anti-clockwise. i seen something online once mate, about the theory that there is only limited energy available in the universe and as it keeps expanding it will come a time where there isnt enough energy to do anything and that the universe will simply be a big black void with nothing in it wouldnt that be fucking wild lol That would be heat death... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe Edited May 26, 2013 by Confidemus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 (edited) I have a theory that the universe has, and always will do, followed a process whereby it expands until it can't expand anymore, by dint of having used all of it's energy, at which point it begins to contract until everything reaches the same point, at which point the big bang happens and the whole process starts all over. This has zero scientific basis; it's just something I thought about. Also we seem to see space in a quite rigid, 2D manner. Folk think that Mars and Venus are to either side of us, yet what is below or above us in the galaxy? Earth is the only planet to have life as it isn't too far away or too close to the sun to have water in liquid form. With all the stars out there, it's impossible surely that there isn't another planet that isn't too close or too far away from it's star to support liquid water and thus life. And have the right kind of star as well of course. Edited May 26, 2013 by DA Baracus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 so women aren't from venus then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 Also we seem to see space in a quite rigid, 2D manner. Folk think that Mars and Venus are to either side of us, yet what is below or above us in the galaxy? Earth is the only planet to have life as it isn't too far away or too close to the sun to have water in liquid form. With all the stars out there, it's impossible surely that there isn't another planet that isn't too close or too far away from it's star to support liquid water and thus life. And have the right kind of star as well of course. On your first point, the galaxy is relatively "flat". Just as all the planet in the solar system are gravitationally tied to the Sun and follow a set path round it, so the solar system is tied to the centre of the milky way and also follows a fairly linear path around the galaxy. Each solar system has a "goldilocks zone" or habitable zone which varies depending upon the type of star... There's a zone which is not too far away for liquid water to freeze into ice and not too close for it to be melted away into vapour. The astronomer Frank Drake invented the Drake Equation, which is a formula to attempt to work out how many technological civilisations are "out there": http://www.seti.org/drakeequation 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 I can't get enough facts on here. C'mon Confidi, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaDundee Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Genuinely thinking of applying to go live in Mars for the rest of my life. http://applicants.mars-one.com/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 (edited) I can't get enough facts on here. C'mon Confidi, No probs, Adders. The most massive star know is the poetically named R136a1, a Wolf-Rayet star in the Tarantula nebula. It has an estimated 265 times the mass of the sun and shines 8.7 MILLION times brighter... However, the largest know star in terms of volume is NML Cygni, whose radius is 1,650 times that of the Sun's. Edited May 26, 2013 by Confidemus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 No probs, Adders. The most massive star know is the poetically named R136a1, a Wolf-Rayet star in the Tarantula nebula. It has an estimated 265 times the mass of the sun and shines 8.7 MILLION times brighter... However, the largest know star in terms of volume is NML Cygni, whose radius is 1,650 times that of the Sun's. Space is just so...big. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 Space is just so...big. Latest estimate is 150 billion light years,, and growing. Just think of that, Adlington. Travelling at 186,000 miles a second for 150 billion years. THAT big, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addie Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Latest estimate is 150 billion light years,, and growing. Just think of that, Adlington. Travelling at 186,000 miles a second for 150 billion years. THAT big, That's nearly as big as S Club 7's hit record, 'Don't Stop Movin' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 if the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 150 billion light years across? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 if the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 150 billion light years across? The Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. That's basically it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_ict Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Not going to lie, I get incredibly excited when I see that Confidemus has posted on this thread. Keep up the good work! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 When I see Confidemus post in this thread, i'm all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 That's nearly as big as S Club 7's hit record, 'Don't Stop Movin' Wow, it really is simple when you put things into perspective like that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Genuinely thinking of applying to go live in Mars for the rest of my life. http://applicants.mars-one.com/ Sounds alright, but I wouldn't want to be one of the first people to go. I'd rather leave it a few years till they've sorted the toilet arrangements out and opened a Gregg's, a chippie and a few pubs. You know, civilisation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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