Thread contd....
caronz
26/8/2008 12:22:59 PM
wow awesome pics for sure
Jumper
26/8/2008 12:48:08 PM
Just
remember that your standing on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...
That's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day.
in an outer spiral-arm at forty thousand miles an hour
of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
but out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
we go 'round every two hundred million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions,
in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light you know;
twelve million miles a minute, that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'cause there's bugger-all down here on earth!
Jumper
26/8/2008 12:52:10 PM
...Sorry - couldn't resist quoting Eric Idol after seeing those fantastic pictures !!!
The interesting thing is how close the majority of figures in the song are...
to see how accurate - or inaccurate look at the BBC site below...
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2163133 corpo
26/8/2008 12:54:45 PM
amazing , its hard to comprehend the size of these , saving these for the kids when they gat home from school
Lebe
26/8/2008 1:40:57 PM
the first one - looks like a Stargate !!!!!
butterfly_mama
26/8/2008 1:42:42 PM
Awesome piccies!
How long is a light year?
butterfly_mama
26/8/2008 1:43:21 PM
Don't worry, i googled and it is just under 10 trillion kilometres
pixie01
26/8/2008 1:52:00 PM
Wow, beautiful and amazing!!
Thanks
player4u
26/8/2008 1:55:27 PM
Fantastic thread/pics thank you briancol...i have posted it in
zambuka.proboards60.com/index.cgi so we can keep them handy in our Space catergory...come and visit us if you feel like it...give you somewhere else to visit/perch...cheers mate
Lebe
26/8/2008 1:55:43 PM
i heard - and I could be wrong (does happen occasionally )
that there was no colour in space - or atleast none the hubble could pick up
and that the colours were added on the lens when the photo is taken or perhaps after
is this true?
Lynz
26/8/2008 1:59:49 PM
No, it is not true Lebe. The idea is ridiculous.
player4u
26/8/2008 2:00:28 PM
butterfly_mama
26/8/2008 1:42:42 PM
Awesome piccies!
How long is a light year?
the distance you would travel over 1 year at the speed of light...eg...the light from the moon might take 30 SECONDS to reach earth...(probably a lot less)...Speed of sound is about 650 MPH(1000kph)...speed of light is hundreds(thousands?) times faster
Lynz
26/8/2008 2:01:54 PM
The speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometres a second.
Lebe
26/8/2008 2:06:24 PM
nevermind - found it myself
hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/index.phphubble takes black and white photos - colour is added later
I thought I 'd heard something about that.
mind you - that doesn't mean there is no colour out there........
Jumper
26/8/2008 2:06:38 PM
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
12-million miles-a-minute, and that's the fastest speed there is...
The speed of light, one of the fundamental constants in the universe, is 300-million metres-per-second. This equates to 18-million km-per-minute or 11.2 million miles-per-minute. It's not quite 12-million miles-a-minute, but '...11-million miles-a-minute...' doesn't scan.
If Einstein's theories of relativity are correct - and so far no-one has managed to prove them wrong - then the speed of light is indeed the fastest speed there is. Some rather esoteric experiments have shown that certain waves can be made to move faster than the speed of light, but central to Einstein's work was the tenet that, for useful information, the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit. So far, this seems to be the case.
..any leads/addys...post away
