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"Outer space is not entirely empty; it is filled with a thin, scattered distribution of matter known as the Interstellar Medium" Yes, effectively there's no such thing as "nothing" ! | |||
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"The moon isn't a million miles away "It's around a quarter of a million miles away, thereabouts. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! " Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over." So if it's curved at either end why Dosnt the water run over the edge 🤭 | |||
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"In the words of Brian Cox - Space, it’s dead big" yeah, and to think, it all excists inside a hanger in Area 51... | |||
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"Can anyone comprehend why we are on this ball and what is it all about?" I think you’re getting philosophical, not scientific. | |||
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"Can anyone comprehend why we are on this ball and what is it all about?" Of the marvels of our very existence, we may stand in awesome wonder, but perhaps ours is not to question but to accept, and trust that, eventually, all will be revealed. | |||
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"What happens if you go into a black hole? xx" It is possible that we could already be living inside a giant black hole from another dimension. Some physicists think black holes can create new universes. So the black hole that made ours would be in a "higher" reality with more dimensions than the three we experience. We’re on the inside looking out, but we can’t see past the edge. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over." The Earth is not 'round'. It is an oblate spheroid that changes shape all the time. | |||
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"If every time waster on this site stood on each other's shoulders they'd reach Uranus"  very good. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over. The Earth is not 'round'. It is an oblate spheroid that changes shape all the time." You’re right that Earth is an oblate spheroid. But an oblate spheroid is, by definition, round — just not a perfect sphere, but generally round nonetheless! | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over. The Earth is not 'round'. It is an oblate spheroid that changes shape all the time. You’re right that Earth is an oblate spheroid. But an oblate spheroid is, by definition, round — just not a perfect sphere, but generally round nonetheless! " A sphere is an object who's every surface point is equidistant from a common point called the centre. So we have to be sure what we mean by round. A billiard ball is round. The Earth isn't | |||
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"In space, no one can hear you scream. Sound can't travel through a vacuum" However, if two Astronauts touch their visors together - they can talk to each other ! | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! " It’s a cube ! Everyone knows that | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! It’s a cube ! Everyone knows that " The saying " to the ends of the earth" proves it.  | |||
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"What happens if you go into a black hole? xx" The physics of a black hole will stretch you...  | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over. The Earth is not 'round'. It is an oblate spheroid that changes shape all the time. You’re right that Earth is an oblate spheroid. But an oblate spheroid is, by definition, round — just not a perfect sphere, but generally round nonetheless! " Aghhh... nothing is ever as good as you think it is! I want my money back! | |||
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"In space, no one can hear you scream. Sound can't travel through a vacuum However, if two Astronauts touch their visors together - they can talk to each other !" No... it's too tempting, I'm not going there! No doubt others on here will not be able to resist the challenge! | |||
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"In space, no one can hear you scream. Sound can't travel through a vacuum However, if two Astronauts touch their visors together - they can talk to each other ! Maybe if their helmets are touching, that's some thing ground control might need to know about No... it's too tempting, I'm not going there! No doubt others on here will not be able to resist the challenge! " | |||
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"The sun is 96 million miles away. If you take a torch and shine a light at it, it will take 8 minutes for the light to reach the sun." Did someone living on the Sun tell you that?  | |||
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"What happens if you go into a black hole? xx" Spaghettification due to extreme tidle force. Beyond that, no one knows for sure. Our current tennets of physics are insufficient to describe what actually happens at its centre. | |||
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"What happens if you go into a black hole? xx Spaghettification due to extreme tidle force. Beyond that, no one knows for sure. Our current tennets of physics are insufficient to describe what actually happens at its centre." So does throwing a pack of spaghetti into a black hole cancel itself out..black holes could be full of spaghetti...pasta certain point | |||
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"Starmer and Ed millibands heads are empty spaces " Ya telling me | |||
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"With the Moon at its furthest point from Earth.. All the other planets in the solar system could fit between . "Hogwash The moons apogee is 252,088 miles Assuming Jupiter was resting on the surface of the Earth and for some bizarre reason the gravity didn’t crush us and the radiation didn’t kill us it alone would take up over 75% of the distance. Add Saturn in and that distance has already been overfilled. Where do you put the other five planets (not including Earth). Not to mention several dozen dwarf planets | |||
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"The sun is 96 million miles away. If you take a torch and shine a light at it, it will take 8 minutes for the light to reach the sun." Is that using the same batteries as the ones you use in your probe | |||
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"With the Moon at its furthest point from Earth.. All the other planets in the solar system could fit between .
Hogwash
The moons apogee is 252,088 miles
Assuming Jupiter was resting on the surface of the Earth and for some bizarre reason the gravity didn’t crush us and the radiation didn’t kill us it alone would take up over 75% of the distance. Add Saturn in and that distance has already been overfilled. Where do you put the other five planets (not including Earth). Not to mention several dozen dwarf planets". Exept the moons apogee is 405,400 km ..look it up. Nasa Data..( Nasa jet propulsion lab)..."The combined equatorial diameter of the Eight planets total approximately 380 000- 390,000 km( if Pluto included) The distance between the Earth and the Moon at apogee ( furthest) is roughly 405,400km centre to centre,accounting for the radii of the Earth and Moon,there is sufficient surface to surface space to fit all Eight planets,and even Eris...but not at perigee (closest distance)..N.A.S.A | |||
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"With the Moon at its furthest point from Earth.. All the other planets in the solar system could fit between .
Hogwash
The moons apogee is 252,088 miles
Assuming Jupiter was resting on the surface of the Earth and for some bizarre reason the gravity didn’t crush us and the radiation didn’t kill us it alone would take up over 75% of the distance. Add Saturn in and that distance has already been overfilled. Where do you put the other five planets (not including Earth). Not to mention several dozen dwarf planets.
Exept the moons apogee is 405,400 km ..look it up.
Nasa Data..( Nasa jet propulsion lab)..."The combined equatorial diameter of the Eight planets total approximately 380 000- 390,000 km( if Pluto included)
The distance between the Earth and the Moon at apogee ( furthest) is roughly 405,400km centre to centre,accounting for the radii of the Earth and Moon,there is sufficient surface to surface space to fit all Eight planets,and even Eris...but not at perigee (closest distance)..N.A.S.A
"Also..Jupiter is 143,000 km in diameter at its equatorial point ( which includes the bulge rotation) which is not 75% of the distance between the Earth and the Moon...that's according to NASA anyway. | |||
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"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind - bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Quote from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. " 42 | |||
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"Space is expanding. The galaxies are all moving away from each other. Eventually, billions of years from now, there will be nothing at all to see in the night sky..." Not quite true. There will be stars to see in our own galaxy, regardless of what happens to other galaxies. In any case, some galaxies exist in clusters. Our own galaxy - the Milky Way - has many satellite galaxies, the biggest being the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is projected to collide with our galaxy within the next 2 billion years. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over. The Earth is not 'round'. It is an oblate spheroid that changes shape all the time. You’re right that Earth is an oblate spheroid. But an oblate spheroid is, by definition, round — just not a perfect sphere, but generally round nonetheless! A sphere is an object who's every surface point is equidistant from a common point called the centre. So we have to be sure what we mean by round. A billiard ball is round. The Earth isn't" You’re mixing up “round” with “perfect sphere”. Round just means curved with no corners or edges. Earth qualifies. So do eggs and watermelons. Even your billiard ball isn’t perfect under a microscope. Earth’s equator bulge is less than 0.4%. Scale it to billiard-ball size and it’s smoother than the real thing. Earth is undeniably round!! | |||
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"With the Moon at its furthest point from Earth.. All the other planets in the solar system could fit between .
Hogwash
The moons apogee is 252,088 miles
Assuming Jupiter was resting on the surface of the Earth and for some bizarre reason the gravity didn’t crush us and the radiation didn’t kill us it alone would take up over 75% of the distance. Add Saturn in and that distance has already been overfilled. Where do you put the other five planets (not including Earth). Not to mention several dozen dwarf planets.
Exept the moons apogee is 405,400 km ..look it up.
Nasa Data..( Nasa jet propulsion lab)..."The combined equatorial diameter of the Eight planets total approximately 380 000- 390,000 km( if Pluto included)
The distance between the Earth and the Moon at apogee ( furthest) is roughly 405,400km centre to centre,accounting for the radii of the Earth and Moon,there is sufficient surface to surface space to fit all Eight planets,and even Eris...but not at perigee (closest distance)..N.A.S.A
Also..Jupiter is 143,000 km in diameter at its equatorial point ( which includes the bulge rotation) which is not 75% of the distance between the Earth and the Moon...that's according to NASA anyway."You seem to be confusing Kilometres with miles. Not the fist time NASA has done this. Americans never quite got the metric system | |||
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"With the Moon at its furthest point from Earth.. All the other planets in the solar system could fit between .
Hogwash
The moons apogee is 252,088 miles
Assuming Jupiter was resting on the surface of the Earth and for some bizarre reason the gravity didn’t crush us and the radiation didn’t kill us it alone would take up over 75% of the distance. Add Saturn in and that distance has already been overfilled. Where do you put the other five planets (not including Earth). Not to mention several dozen dwarf planets.
Exept the moons apogee is 405,400 km ..look it up.
Nasa Data..( Nasa jet propulsion lab)..."The combined equatorial diameter of the Eight planets total approximately 380 000- 390,000 km( if Pluto included)
The distance between the Earth and the Moon at apogee ( furthest) is roughly 405,400km centre to centre,accounting for the radii of the Earth and Moon,there is sufficient surface to surface space to fit all Eight planets,and even Eris...but not at perigee (closest distance)..N.A.S.A
Also..Jupiter is 143,000 km in diameter at its equatorial point ( which includes the bulge rotation) which is not 75% of the distance between the Earth and the Moon...that's according to NASA anyway.
You seem to be confusing Kilometres with miles. Not the fist time NASA has done this. Americans never quite got the metric system ". . no im not..you are..im stating that according to NASA the distance is approximately 2000 miles LESS than your miles distance.. According to you.jupiter is 189,000 miles in diameter at its equatorial distance..( if as you claim its 75% of the distance between the earth and the moon).Nasa says its 88,000 miles..nowhere near your stated 75%.distance.. Either Nasa is wrong..or you are. | |||
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"With the Moon at its furthest point from Earth.. All the other planets in the solar system could fit between .
Hogwash
The moons apogee is 252,088 miles
Assuming Jupiter was resting on the surface of the Earth and for some bizarre reason the gravity didn’t crush us and the radiation didn’t kill us it alone would take up over 75% of the distance. Add Saturn in and that distance has already been overfilled. Where do you put the other five planets (not including Earth). Not to mention several dozen dwarf planets"Where did you find your information?? There are over 30 scientific videos on youtube,all stating the solar system planets can indeed fit between the Earth and the moon at their furthest distance..as the op said..I cannot find 1 piece of astronomical information saying that they cannot. Please provide a link to your source.. | |||
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"The universe is so big we will never be able to see as far as the edge (if there is one). Distances are so great that we will never be able to travel to Proxima Centauri our nearest star let alone any of the other trillions of stars out there. Conversely Aliens have never, and never, will be able to travel to Earth. (I'll sit back and let the conspiracists have a go)! "We can definitely travel to Proxima, it will just take a very long time and would require either a generation ship or some way to put humans into hibernation. There are already viable plans to send tiny probes there via directed-energy propulsion which would reach it in a few decades. Aliens COULD visit Earth if they wanted, were close enough and had the right technology/biology, but I agree with you that I don't think they ever have. | |||
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"Mercury diameter 3033 miles 4879 km Venus diameter 7521 miles 12104 km Mars diameter 4212 miles 6792 km Jupiter diameter 88841 miles 142976 km Saturn diameter 74897 miles 120500 km Uranus diameter 31763 miles 51118 km Neptune diameter 30775 miles 49538 km 241042 miles 387904 km At least 31 named dwarf planets with a minimum diameter of 800 km amounting to 24800 km at least 412704 km. This is more than the apogee of the moon and the Earth. New dwarf planets are being discovered regularly. So the diameter of the other celestial bodies can only increase. This isn't even counting asteroids comets interstellar visiting objects. As to videos on you tube. There are thousands from the flat earthers just because they are there doesn’t make them correct " Except I didn't mention all the dwarf planets included.. .389704km is less than the distance between the Earth and moon at apogee..so as I say ( from nasa website ) yes the planets can fit between ..why did you include dwarf planets in your attempt to disprove the opening post?..what will you add next,the sun,.you've already contradicted yourself in writing by now stating the correct size of Venus...which is not 75% of the total distance between earth and moon.. By the way Nasas website information is in metric...which is i believe is an American organisation ..so what do you mean America never got metric . | |||
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"Mercury diameter 3033 miles 4879 km Venus diameter 7521 miles 12104 km Mars diameter 4212 miles 6792 km Jupiter diameter 88841 miles 142976 km Saturn diameter 74897 miles 120500 km Uranus diameter 31763 miles 51118 km Neptune diameter 30775 miles 49538 km 241042 miles 387904 km At least 31 named dwarf planets with a minimum diameter of 800 km amounting to 24800 km at least 412704 km. This is more than the apogee of the moon and the Earth. New dwarf planets are being discovered regularly. So the diameter of the other celestial bodies can only increase. This isn't even counting asteroids comets interstellar visiting objects. As to videos on you tube. There are thousands from the flat earthers just because they are there doesn’t make them correct Except I didn't mention all the dwarf planets included.. .389704km is less than the distance between the Earth and moon at apogee..so as I say ( from nasa website ) yes the planets can fit between ..why did you include dwarf planets in your attempt to disprove the opening post?..what will you add next,the sun,.you've already contradicted yourself in writing by now stating the correct size of Venus...which is not 75% of the total distance between earth and moon.. By the way Nasas website information is in metric...which is i believe is an American organisation ..so what do you mean America never got metric . " When I was born Pluto was a planet. Dwarf planets is the new NASA clarification for small planetary objects. They exist fact and they are one of the most numerous objects in the solar system and according to NASA. They are planetary bodies As to Americans not getting metric. Please look up the Mars climate orbiter NASA uses a hybrid system of metric and US imperial standard. Their mistakes in the past have forced them to primarily use metric in the 21st century also in the 21st century they have done a lot more joint missions and everyone else uses metric | |||
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"Mercury diameter 3033 miles 4879 km Venus diameter 7521 miles 12104 km Mars diameter 4212 miles 6792 km Jupiter diameter 88841 miles 142976 km Saturn diameter 74897 miles 120500 km Uranus diameter 31763 miles 51118 km Neptune diameter 30775 miles 49538 km 241042 miles 387904 km At least 31 named dwarf planets with a minimum diameter of 800 km amounting to 24800 km at least 412704 km. This is more than the apogee of the moon and the Earth. New dwarf planets are being discovered regularly. So the diameter of the other celestial bodies can only increase. This isn't even counting asteroids comets interstellar visiting objects. As to videos on you tube. There are thousands from the flat earthers just because they are there doesn’t make them correct Except I didn't mention all the dwarf planets included.. .389704km is less than the distance between the Earth and moon at apogee..so as I say ( from nasa website ) yes the planets can fit between ..why did you include dwarf planets in your attempt to disprove the opening post?..what will you add next,the sun,.you've already contradicted yourself in writing by now stating the correct size of Venus...which is not 75% of the total distance between earth and moon.. By the way Nasas website information is in metric...which is i believe is an American organisation ..so what do you mean America never got metric . When I was born Pluto was a planet. Dwarf planets is the new NASA clarification for small planetary objects. They exist fact and they are one of the most numerous objects in the solar system and according to NASA. They are planetary bodies As to Americans not getting metric. Please look up the Mars climate orbiter NASA uses a hybrid system of metric and US imperial standard. Their mistakes in the past have forced them to primarily use metric in the 21st century also in the 21st century they have done a lot more joint missions and everyone else uses metric " . . So given your statement that you were taught Pluto was a planet( so was I in 1960s.)the common definition of solar system planets is commonly total 8...rest are dwarf planets etc etc..so my information in opening post was all the planets CAN fit between the Earth and the moon at apogee..which i wrote word for word from Nasas website.... Yes if all dwarf planets,asteroids,etc were included then they wouldn't fit..but I and Nasa assumes the logical current day quota of 8 main planets( although Pluto would fit also) .. Next door to me is a gentleman who teaches astrophysics at a local university..I asked him two things. 1 .how many planets in the solar system? He replied 8... 2 .would the 8 planets if Pluto included,fit between the Earth and moon at their furthest..he replied yes.. Its illuminating what his theoris are on black holes etc.. So not Hogwash.. but correct.. | |||
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"Mercury diameter 3033 miles 4879 km Venus diameter 7521 miles 12104 km Mars diameter 4212 miles 6792 km Jupiter diameter 88841 miles 142976 km Saturn diameter 74897 miles 120500 km Uranus diameter 31763 miles 51118 km Neptune diameter 30775 miles 49538 km 241042 miles 387904 km At least 31 named dwarf planets with a minimum diameter of 800 km amounting to 24800 km at least 412704 km. This is more than the apogee of the moon and the Earth. New dwarf planets are being discovered regularly. So the diameter of the other celestial bodies can only increase. This isn't even counting asteroids comets interstellar visiting objects. As to videos on you tube. There are thousands from the flat earthers just because they are there doesn’t make them correct Except I didn't mention all the dwarf planets included.. .389704km is less than the distance between the Earth and moon at apogee..so as I say ( from nasa website ) yes the planets can fit between ..why did you include dwarf planets in your attempt to disprove the opening post?..what will you add next,the sun,.you've already contradicted yourself in writing by now stating the correct size of Venus...which is not 75% of the total distance between earth and moon.. By the way Nasas website information is in metric...which is i believe is an American organisation ..so what do you mean America never got metric . When I was born Pluto was a planet. Dwarf planets is the new NASA clarification for small planetary objects. They exist fact and they are one of the most numerous objects in the solar system and according to NASA. They are planetary bodies As to Americans not getting metric. Please look up the Mars climate orbiter NASA uses a hybrid system of metric and US imperial standard. Their mistakes in the past have forced them to primarily use metric in the 21st century also in the 21st century they have done a lot more joint missions and everyone else uses metric . . So given your statement that you were taught Pluto was a planet( so was I in 1960s.)the common definition of solar system planets is commonly total 8...rest are dwarf planets etc etc..so my information in opening post was all the planets CAN fit between the Earth and the moon at apogee..which i wrote word for word from Nasas website.... Yes if all dwarf planets,asteroids,etc were included then they wouldn't fit..but I and Nasa assumes the logical current day quota of 8 main planets( although Pluto would fit also) .. Next door to me is a gentleman who teaches astrophysics at a local university..I asked him two things. 1 .how many planets in the solar system? He replied 8... 2 .would the 8 planets if Pluto included,fit between the Earth and moon at their furthest..he replied yes.. Its illuminating what his theoris are on black holes etc.. So not Hogwash.. but correct.. " So you include one dwarf planet but not the other 30 named ones. Some of which are in the size range of Pluto one or two even bigger. Nothing quite like bending the facts to fit your required result | |||
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"Mercury diameter 3033 miles 4879 km Venus diameter 7521 miles 12104 km Mars diameter 4212 miles 6792 km Jupiter diameter 88841 miles 142976 km Saturn diameter 74897 miles 120500 km Uranus diameter 31763 miles 51118 km Neptune diameter 30775 miles 49538 km 241042 miles 387904 km At least 31 named dwarf planets with a minimum diameter of 800 km amounting to 24800 km at least 412704 km. This is more than the apogee of the moon and the Earth. New dwarf planets are being discovered regularly. So the diameter of the other celestial bodies can only increase. This isn't even counting asteroids comets interstellar visiting objects. As to videos on you tube. There are thousands from the flat earthers just because they are there doesn’t make them correct Except I didn't mention all the dwarf planets included.. .389704km is less than the distance between the Earth and moon at apogee..so as I say ( from nasa website ) yes the planets can fit between ..why did you include dwarf planets in your attempt to disprove the opening post?..what will you add next,the sun,.you've already contradicted yourself in writing by now stating the correct size of Venus...which is not 75% of the total distance between earth and moon.. By the way Nasas website information is in metric...which is i believe is an American organisation ..so what do you mean America never got metric . When I was born Pluto was a planet. Dwarf planets is the new NASA clarification for small planetary objects. They exist fact and they are one of the most numerous objects in the solar system and according to NASA. They are planetary bodies As to Americans not getting metric. Please look up the Mars climate orbiter NASA uses a hybrid system of metric and US imperial standard. Their mistakes in the past have forced them to primarily use metric in the 21st century also in the 21st century they have done a lot more joint missions and everyone else uses metric . . So given your statement that you were taught Pluto was a planet( so was I in 1960s.)the common definition of solar system planets is commonly total 8...rest are dwarf planets etc etc..so my information in opening post was all the planets CAN fit between the Earth and the moon at apogee..which i wrote word for word from Nasas website.... Yes if all dwarf planets,asteroids,etc were included then they wouldn't fit..but I and Nasa assumes the logical current day quota of 8 main planets( although Pluto would fit also) .. Next door to me is a gentleman who teaches astrophysics at a local university..I asked him two things. 1 .how many planets in the solar system? He replied 8... 2 .would the 8 planets if Pluto included,fit between the Earth and moon at their furthest..he replied yes.. Its illuminating what his theoris are on black holes etc.. So not Hogwash.. but correct.. So you include one dwarf planet but not the other 30 named ones. Some of which are in the size range of Pluto one or two even bigger. Nothing quite like bending the facts to fit your required result" . I dont.Nasa do.all the planets plus pluto is what Nasa says fit between...yes I know some dwarf planets are bigger than Pluto.. Question ..do you accept the Eight planets or even seven if you like,would fit between the Earth and moon at furthest distance..yes or no ? | |||
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"We can definitely travel to Proxima, it will just take a very long time and would require either a generation ship or some way to put humans into hibernation. There are already viable plans to send tiny probes there via directed-energy propulsion which would reach it in a few decades. Aliens COULD visit Earth if they wanted, were close enough and had the right technology/biology, but I agree with you that I don't think they ever have. To travel to Proxima Centauri at say 50,000 miles an hour would take more than 57,000 years, at a quarter the speed of light it would still take more than 20 years given to slow down to orbital speed would take several years. However the bigger problem is that to travel that far at a quarter the speed of light would need more fuel that currently exists on Earth. Trying to go even faster only compounds the problem. Aliens are bound by the same physics as we are, so have the same problem. "Its an efficiency problem. If we can sort out fusion here on earth then maybe eventually we could make something efficient enough. Im not enough of a scientist to suggest what though. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! " Go to the beach and watch a ship dissappear over the gently curving horizon.... | |||
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"We can definitely travel to Proxima, it will just take a very long time and would require either a generation ship or some way to put humans into hibernation. There are already viable plans to send tiny probes there via directed-energy propulsion which would reach it in a few decades. Aliens COULD visit Earth if they wanted, were close enough and had the right technology/biology, but I agree with you that I don't think they ever have. To travel to Proxima Centauri at say 50,000 miles an hour would take more than 57,000 years, at a quarter the speed of light it would still take more than 20 years given to slow down to orbital speed would take several years. However the bigger problem is that to travel that far at a quarter the speed of light would need more fuel that currently exists on Earth. Trying to go even faster only compounds the problem. Aliens are bound by the same physics as we are, so have the same problem.
Its an efficiency problem. If we can sort out fusion here on earth then maybe eventually we could make something efficient enough. Im not enough of a scientist to suggest what though."Absolutely. You wouldn't use chemical rockets to get to other stars. Aliens are of course bound by the same physics but there are a lot of solutions we haven't discovered or developed yet between present day technology and the limits of physics. As long as you aren't trying to break the laws of physics then it's just a series of engineering problems to solve, certainly not impossible. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! " Because it is, if its not then where are the edges to it? or just go look at any sea horizon or try flying around it or look at any picture of earth from space or stand still, the fact that you dont fly up into the air is because the earth is rotating generating gravity like a massive old fairground ride where you would plaster yourself against a metal grid with no safety belt and the g force would hold you in place. If the earth wasnt round this wouldnt happen | |||
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"Interesting documentary on YouTube about voyager 1 spacecraft that left earth in 1977 and saying where it will be in the next 10,000 years then next million years next 1 billion years it’ll still be drifting through space and humanity will be long long gone.
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"A friend of mine wrote a book with his pal of space themed poetry called Binary Stars. It’s beautifully illustrated too. All 3 are queer guys but the book isn’t necessarily overly queer, it’s more about space and wonder and love and melancholy. It’s great. You can get it from Waterstones and Amazon but Amazon print it on demand so the quality isn’t as good as the Waterstones copies. ISBN is 9781917842532 if it sounds interesting to anyone. Fun fact: one of the writers initials is NASA. " Ok that's my next read!! | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over." I’m not sure this straight edge works as it is easier proved by geometry to be otherwise. But to answer the first question all you have to do is measure the angle of the shadows of two vertical posts on the same longitude at midday on the summer solstice. The distance between with a bit of ? will give you the radius of the Earth. First done in the 2nd century I think. | |||
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"How do we know the earth is round unless you have been up to space can it be proven we only see what they want us to see !!! Go to the seaside. Look at the horizon and hold a straight edge to where the sky meets the sea. Youll see a curve downwards at each end of the straight edge proving the world is round. Try it anywhere by the sea its the same world over. I’m not sure this straight edge works as it is easier proved by geometry to be otherwise. But to answer the first question all you have to do is measure the angle of the shadows of two vertical posts on the same longitude at midday on the summer solstice. The distance between with a bit of ? will give you the radius of the Earth. First done in the 2nd century I think." eh? Ya what? | |||
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"We can definitely travel to Proxima, it will just take a very long time and would require either a generation ship or some way to put humans into hibernation. There are already viable plans to send tiny probes there via directed-energy propulsion which would reach it in a few decades. Aliens COULD visit Earth if they wanted, were close enough and had the right technology/biology, but I agree with you that I don't think they ever have. To travel to Proxima Centauri at say 50,000 miles an hour would take more than 57,000 years, at a quarter the speed of light it would still take more than 20 years given to slow down to orbital speed would take several years. However the bigger problem is that to travel that far at a quarter the speed of light would need more fuel that currently exists on Earth. Trying to go even faster only compounds the problem. Aliens are bound by the same physics as we are, so have the same problem. "We (humans) don't know everything about physics; our knowledge is limited and developing! Aliens may well have a more advanced knowledge of physics than we do! We may be to them... as ants are to us! Theoretical physicists even postulate that different universes may have different or opposing laws of physics to ours! If only we knew the questions, let alone the answers... 'The truth is out there, but not as we know it Jim!' | |||
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"We (humans) don't know everything about physics; our knowledge is limited and developing! Aliens may well have a more advanced knowledge of physics than we do! We may be to them... as ants are to us! Theoretical physicists even postulate that different universes may have different or opposing laws of physics to ours! If only we knew the questions, let alone the answers... 'The truth is out there, but not as we know it Jim!'" It is also entirely possible that 'we' are the most advanced life form in the universe, which we can postulate is teeming with all kinds of life forms. And 'we' are the potential Aliens wishing to expolre space. | |||
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"The 7 Sisters “Pleiades” is one of the closet star clusters to Earth " Proper name is Subaru. Hence the badge on the front of the car 😇 | |||
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"We (humans) don't know everything about physics; our knowledge is limited and developing! Aliens may well have a more advanced knowledge of physics than we do! We may be to them... as ants are to us! Theoretical physicists even postulate that different universes may have different or opposing laws of physics to ours! If only we knew the questions, let alone the answers... 'The truth is out there, but not as we know it Jim!' It is also entirely possible that 'we' are the most advanced life form in the universe, which we can postulate is teeming with all kinds of life forms. And 'we' are the potential Aliens wishing to expolre space. "Anything is a future possibility... so many variables! IMO our human successors i.e. AI... will be what goes to the stars. As silicon chips, titanium and plastic have no awareness of time like a biological human. Unless of course we unravel the mysteries of quantum physics and bypass the space/distance/time conundrum!
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"Patrick Moore was consulted by NASA as to where the first moon landing should be. He also had a unique claim: He met Orville Wright, the first man to fly a heavier than air, powered aircraft. He met Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. He met Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on to the moon." Patrick Moore, truly a heavenly body... I did get invited to his house/observatory in Hampshire many years ago before he passed; an amazing man. I also met his black cat... Tolomy | |||
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"No exactly a space fact but... ...when I go to the beach and listen to the waves crashing on the shore, I like to think about all the billions of years that exact sound was being made with nothing here to hear it. And then I think about all the other planets scattered throughout the universe where that very same sound is happening right now." Sorry to ruin your romantic musings but Earth and the universe is entirely silent. Sound is what our ears and brain create as a result of (silent) pressure waves | |||
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"No exactly a space fact but... ...when I go to the beach and listen to the waves crashing on the shore, I like to think about all the billions of years that exact sound was being made with nothing here to hear it. And then I think about all the other planets scattered throughout the universe where that very same sound is happening right now. Sorry to ruin your romantic musings but Earth and the universe is entirely silent. Sound is what our ears and brain create as a result of (silent) pressure waves" Are we not part of the universe. | |||
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"No exactly a space fact but... ...when I go to the beach and listen to the waves crashing on the shore, I like to think about all the billions of years that exact sound was being made with nothing here to hear it. And then I think about all the other planets scattered throughout the universe where that very same sound is happening right now. Sorry to ruin your romantic musings but Earth and the universe is entirely silent. Sound is what our ears and brain create as a result of (silent) pressure waves Are we not part of the universe. " Sorry yes I meant earth and space | |||
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"No exactly a space fact but... ...when I go to the beach and listen to the waves crashing on the shore, I like to think about all the billions of years that exact sound was being made with nothing here to hear it. And then I think about all the other planets scattered throughout the universe where that very same sound is happening right now. Sorry to ruin your romantic musings but Earth and the universe is entirely silent. Sound is what our ears and brain create as a result of (silent) pressure waves Are we not part of the universe. " ….and the universe is part of us as subatomic particles and energy constantly dynamically interchanges from one mass to another. | |||
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"Meanwhile - a couple of hundred miles above us, the ISS has sprung a leak - they are standing by to evacuate, not sure where to though. " They were sheltering in the Dragon capsule, which in the event of a real emergency would take them back to earth. | |||
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"The 7 Sisters “Pleiades” is one of the closet star clusters to Earth Proper name is Subaru. Hence the badge on the front of the car 😇" In Japan it’s known as Subaru | |||
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"Meanwhile - a couple of hundred miles above us, the ISS has sprung a leak - they are standing by to evacuate, not sure where to though. They were sheltering in the Dragon capsule, which in the event of a real emergency would take them back to earth." Cowering in the capsule. Think...think.... ....What would Kirk do? 🤔 | |||
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"a supermassive black hole in the Perseus galaxy hums in B-flat " ...and there is a gold disc on the Voyager deep space explorer with a recording of Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B Good'! Also in B-flat...! A celestial jam session coming right up! | |||
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"There is a tile with a dick drawing on the moon" It's a timeless human tradition older than writing itself to draw dicks on things. | |||
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"I've never watched Star Wars or Star Trek." Stargate? | |||
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"So the universe is either: Finite (effectively infinity-1) but expanding so fast you could never reach the edge but if theoretically you were to reach the edge its impossible to comprehend whats beyond. Its not just nothing or a vacuum but the complete absence of anything - time/matter/light - existence no lingers exist OR its a huge ring donut kinda shape where you coukd travel so far eventually (in billions of years) you'll come back to the same place. Some describe is like a PacMan universe where you go off one side and appear on the other." If it’s a doughnut, what’s in the middle? Not being facetious, just if the universe has a shape it must have an edge/end, so what’s beyond the edge of the doughnut? | |||
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" If it’s a doughnut, what’s in the middle? Not being facetious, just if the universe has a shape it must have an edge/end, so what’s beyond the edge of the doughnut?" Thats kinda the point - nobody knows. If its finite - and existence doesnt exist beyond it - thats something science/humans can't comprehend. Or its infibite and you somehow eventually come back to the same point like a loop There are other theories but these are the 2 of the biggest. | |||
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" If it’s a doughnut, what’s in the middle? Not being facetious, just if the universe has a shape it must have an edge/end, so what’s beyond the edge of the doughnut? Thats kinda the point - nobody knows. If its finite - and existence doesnt exist beyond it - thats something science/humans can't comprehend. Or its infibite and you somehow eventually come back to the same point like a loop There are other theories but these are the 2 of the biggest. " The Doughnut Universe theory has been postulated by Theoretical Physicists as being a universe that expands, then reaches a point of equilibrium... then contracts to a finate point with a black hole at it's epicenter, where-on it inverts and starts the whole process again on the other side of the black hole adinfenightum! Anyone for doughnuts? | |||
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"No exactly a space fact but... ...when I go to the beach and listen to the waves crashing on the shore, I like to think about all the billions of years that exact sound was being made with nothing here to hear it. And then I think about all the other planets scattered throughout the universe where that very same sound is happening right now. Sorry to ruin your romantic musings but Earth and the universe is entirely silent. Sound is what our ears and brain create as a result of (silent) pressure waves" Sorry to ruin your 'um, akshully' moment but if those pressure waves are still happening then what we perceive as sound is still there, whether or not anything with ears (or other peculiar alien sensory appendages) is there to experience it. | |||
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"Some of the other planets have Moons, and all the Moons have names. Why is our Moon Just The Moon?" Scientifically they're not. Our natural satellite has the name "Moon." But the rest are not called moons. Its like calling all vaccum cleaners a hoover | |||
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"I thought school taught me the Moon was 81,000 miles away. " School probably taught you thete were 8 or 9 planets. Now we've discovered over 3,000. Its crazy what they now know and we never caught up lol | |||
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"Some of the other planets have Moons, and all the Moons have names. Why is our Moon Just The Moon? Scientifically they're not. Our natural satellite has the name "Moon." But the rest are not called moons. Its like calling all vaccum cleaners a hoover" The Moon: "Moon" with a capital 'M' is the proper name for Earth's specific natural satellite. When referring to natural satellites of other planets (like Mars or Jupiter), they are called "moons" with a lowercase 'm'. | |||
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