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Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by rickymouse
Okay, I'll bite. Your idea about things "reversing" when we pass thru to the "other side" of the galactic plane is interesting. Any number of things could happen. Earth's poles could shift. Drains could flow backwards, washing machines could reverse direction.
Here is what might happen if we are not careful.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by rickymouse
Okay, I'll bite. Your idea about things "reversing" when we pass thru to the "other side" of the galactic plane is interesting. Any number of things could happen. Earth's poles could shift. Drains could flow backwards, washing machines could reverse direction.
Here is what might happen if we are not careful.
Originally posted by sealing
On Dec. 21st 2012 the sun will
rise and appear to align with the dark
rift in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
That's not hype.
That is happening.
reply to post by OnWhiteMars
The pictures he posted were unique, I could not even duplicate it. I tried. What was weird to me was that I wasn;t trying to and the top picture looks like the All seeing EYE, it was taken from the perspective of the SUN with the Earth in the center. I thought that was very strange. The alignment is the same no matter how you look at it.
Originally posted by swan001
reply to post by NewAgeMan
Oh, PLEASE, quit it! The Solar System aligning or going inside the Rift DOES NOT TRIGGER THE END OF THE WORLD! I know, I'm an astronomer,
Originally posted by BrokenAngelWings33
reply to post by NewAgeMan
I am going to do some more pictures for you, they will all be when the Sun is on the Galactic plane, which is 2 times a year from our perspective on Earth.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Intriguingly, on Christmas day of the 25th (after three days) there will be a Jovial/Lunar Eclipse meaning that the sun will eclipse Jupiter, King of the Planets, for a period of 15 hours. Another fact and one that I myself find to be not without a certain significance. Full occultation of Jupiter by the moon will only be seen from South America however. And interesting factoid nevertheless.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by BrokenAngelWings33
Just curious but was Phage right that this galactic plane alignment at solstice has happened several times in the last couple of decades?
Thanks.
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Originally posted by BrokenAngelWings33
reply to post by NewAgeMan
I am going to do some more pictures for you, they will all be when the Sun is on the Galactic plane, which is 2 times a year from our perspective on Earth.
Could you guys at the very least get the terminology correct?
Galactic Plane:
The galactic plane is the plane in which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies. The directions perpendicular to the galactic plane point to the galactic poles. Most often, in actual usage, the terms "galactic plane" and "galactic poles" are used to refer specifically to the plane and poles of the Milky Way, which is the galaxy in which the Earth is located.
Since the "Galactic Plane" is where the majority of the galaxy's disk shaped mass lies, it means it has a thickness to it.
How thick?
Milky Way Size and Composition:
The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 ly (31 kpc) in diameter, and is, on average, about 1,000 ly (0.3 kpc) thick.[2]
So the "Galactic Plane" is 1,000 light years thick.
The Galactic Equator is:
The galactic equator is an imaginary great circle that divides the equally imaginary celestial sphere into two equal halves. The celestial sphere is – of course – a fiction. It’s the same fiction that so confounded the early stargazers, that, as seen from Earth, we appear to reside in the center of a great globe of stars. In modern times, the fiction of the geocentric view of the universe enables astronomers to use a workable coordinate system for mapping the sky. It’s handy, but it’s not reality.
No, Earth will not pass through the galactic plane in 2012, contrary to what you might have heard. Earth won’t be physically passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy for another 30 million years. However, Earth will cross the galactic equator in 2012. As seen from the sun, the Earth does this every year – twice.