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Originally posted by EvilBat
discovery of the "space goat farts" ?
wasn't that one of the keyword webbot thingy last year or early this year
that it kept repeating?
other then that, I'm going to have to post a note to remind myself to hit their web page up
at that time.
My cat thinks its either his missing mouse toy or the rest of the cat people coming to take over
I don't know he's got this thing for world domination.
Q&A: Black Holes
Q:
Are worm holes traversable?
A:
If a large enough wormhole existed, it would allow almost instantaneous movement to another part of the universe. Certainly, Jodie Foster was able to do it in the movie Contact and it happens routinely in other science fiction movies, TV programs and novels.
A wormhole is a hypothetical type of tunnel consisting of two entrance holes that resemble black holes. The entrance holes can be far apart, yet connected by a tube that extends through hyperspace.
The only way to keep a wormhole from collapsing immediately is to fill it with negative energy. Positive energy will not do, because in general relativity energy equals mass, and hence more gravity, which would close up the wormhole. Negative energy is permitted by quantum theory, and its effects have been observed in the laboratory.
However, when negative energy is created it must obey three conditions:
1. The longer the pulse of negative energy, the weaker the amount
2. A negative energy pulse must be followed by a positive energy pulse to balance the books
3. As the interval between the negative and positive energy pulses increases, the positive energy pulse must be larger.
So, in order to hold a wormhole open long enough for space travel, an incredible amount of negative energy would be required. For example, it has been estimated that to create a wormhole with a diameter one millionth the size of a proton, wormhole engineers would need negative energy equivalent in magnitude to the energy generated by ten billion suns in one year. As you can see, this would be a very expensive way to travel!
Originally posted by Oaktree
Here it is. Not too exciting, imo.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed an unusual galaxy cluster that contains a bright core of relatively cool gas surrounding a quasar called 3C 186. This is the most distant such object yet observed,
Nasa
Originally posted by kalunom
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closest one I found was 1,400 light years away (a quick run-through, I may have missed one 'closer'). My point being, Chandra doesn't seem to be looking at our moon, it has it's sights set out quite a bit farther.
Originally posted by kennedy13
I cannot make a new thread because I am fairly new, but there is something going on in the sky southeast of where I live, which is upstate NY. I apologize for posting a reply about this here but I have never seen a UFO or anything out of the ordinary in the night sky until now. Looks very similar to a star but it is pulsating red, green and yellow lights. The object is very far off in the distance and looks almost like a star. I have dialed in on it with my telescope and it is defiantly not atmospheric interference causing the color, there is something there!
Originally posted by wisintel
I would imagine that if they found anything truly earth shattering, such as proof of alien life or an alien artifact somewhere in the solar system, then the president would be giving the press conference and not NASA.... if NASA is giving the press conference then although it may be interesting to most on these boards it will be disappointing.
Originally posted by kalunom
It may be helpful to look at what Chandra has been looking at since 1999:
chandra.harvard.edu...
Some interesting pictures, closest one I found was 1,400 light years away (a quick run-through, I may have missed one 'closer'). My point being, Chandra doesn't seem to be looking at our moon, it has it's sights set out quite a bit farther.