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Well I Never!

Wabinez said:
This the another thing that simply amazes me...how long Earth has been in existence, how the Big Bang created pretty much all of the elements that we would need to sustain life on the planet, but then sheer coincidences and happenings meant that life could be maintained on the planet. Simply mind blowing.
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it's possible to almost prove by maths that we don't actually exist.

We are a finite number.
The universe is (assumed) as infinite.
Any finite number divide by infinity is near as near as dammit zero- ergo we don't exist
 
CMAC said:
it's possible to almost prove by maths that we don't actually exist.

We are a finite number.
The universe is (assumed) as infinite.
Any finite number divide by infinity is near as near as dammit zero- ergo we don't exist
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WHy would the inability to divide one number by another mean we don't exist? Also, that's a massive assumption re: the infinite universe, I thought nobody knew?
 
Duckster said:
If the history of the Earth was just 24 hours:

12.00-04.00 The Big Bang! No life and a planet with poisonous gasses in the air, no soil and a hot sea

04.00-20.00 Single celled organisms have appeared and started to make the beloved Oxygen that we all like so much.

Just before 20.30 First marine plants appear

20.50 Jellyfish time!

Just after 21.00 Trilobytes and other weird stuff join the party

22.00 Plant life and first land creatures.

23.00-23.45 Dinosaurs rock up and rule the world which would later give inspiration to all small children to go "Aaaaaarrrrgggggg" when playing dinosaurs. Even with the grass eating ones. All dinosaurs went "Aaaaaarrrrgggggg". It's the law.

1 minute and 17 seconds to midnight. Humans show up. Golf is invented. Followed by the forum.
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.....and we are all related to each other! Not just us "special" humans, but every single mammal, bird, reptile, fish, insect, fungus, plant, trilobite and microbe.
 
CMAC said:
it's possible to almost prove by maths that we don't actually exist.

We are a finite number.
The universe is (assumed) as infinite.
Any finite number divide by infinity is near as near as dammit zero- ergo we don't exist
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Er...No! It simply shows how insignificant we are relative (there's that word again) to the rest of the Universe!

Simply a speck on the hide of a hippopotamus! Or was that a 'squaw'! :whistle:
 
Foxholer said:
Er...No! It simply shows how insignificant we are relative (there's that word again) to the rest of the Universe!

Simply a speck on the hide of a hippopotamus! Or was that a 'squaw'! :whistle:
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Have a read of Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Especially the bit about "The Total Perspective Vortex"
explained everything :)
 
PhilTheFragger said:
Have a read of Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Especially the bit about "The Total Perspective Vortex"
explained everything :)
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Oh Dear..Brain the size of a Planet and all you ant me to do is Open that Door!

Must go back and re-read them!

Now. What was the Question?

I met Adams once - when he was scouting/filming 'Last Chance to See'. He even signed a LE Print of a pair of Kakapos (the saddest Parrots in the World) that I had!
 
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Region3 said:
As far as I know, the only thing you can ever quote the speed of, without stating what that speed is relative to is light - or more specifically massless particles.

No matter how slow or fast you are moving relative to the source of the light, space and time screw with your clocks and rulers so that you always measure the same speed for light.
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Are you Dr Who?
 
Region3 said:
The sun (with us and the rest of the solar system in tow) is travelling around the Milky Way at approx 470,000 mph!
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Cool! So if I get done speeding past a school gate at 35mph, can I claim the speed trap is incorrectly calibrated as I'm actually doing 470,035mph?
 
Region3 said:
It's worse than that.

That is just the speed that we're travelling around the sun at.

The sun (with us and the rest of the solar system in tow) is travelling around the Milky Way at approx 470,000 mph!
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It does sort of flatten my hair a wee bit...
 
drive4show said:
Cool! So if I get done speeding past a school gate at 35mph, can I claim the speed trap is incorrectly calibrated as I'm actually doing 470,035mph?
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If that doesn't work, according to special relativity anyone and everyone is perfectly entitled to claim they are standing still and everyone else is moving relative to them, so really it's the camera that needs a ticket.

See how you get on with that one if they don't lock you up after the first effort! :D
 
The sun is 400x further from the earth than the moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the sun.


Not a lot of people know that :whistle:
 
JustOne said:
Indeed, save me Googling it... what's the movement of our galaxy in regards to the universe?
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1.3 MILLION miles per hour.

Continuing the comment on the Andromeda Galaxy we are on a collision course with it. Even though the center of each galaxy is crammed full of stars none will collided with each other. Some may get spun out into deep space on their own though.
Both galaxies have a super massive black hole at the center which will spiral towards each other devouring stars and solar systems as they go until they combine to make one, even larger super massive black hole.
 
SocketRocket said:
The sun is 400x further from the earth than the moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the sun.


Not a lot of people know that :whistle:
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And even fewer believe it's correct - volume wise!

It's more 80+ million times as large as the moon! :whistle:
 
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Foxholer said:
And even fewer believe it's correct - volume wise!
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It's not in volume it's the diameter of them that is roughly equal.

The moon is also moving away from the earth at a rate of 1-2 cm a year which is also making the days longer at a rate of 1/500th of a second every century.
620 million years ago a day was only 21 hours long.

It also takes 226 million years for the solar system to orbit the galaxy, so last time we were in this orientation of the galaxy the dinosaurs were roaming the planet and Pangaea was just splitting apart into the continents we know today.
 
Andy808 said:
It's not in volume it's the diameter of them that is roughly equal.
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Well about 400 (actually a little more) times the diameter!

Which means 400 cubed the size(400 times the width * 400 times the height * 400 times the depth)! Actually, I used moon/earth diameter ratio of 1/4 as opposed to 27%, so slight errror....Sun is 'only' about 65+ Million times the volume of the moon!
 
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SocketRocket said:
It's talking about diameter, and you know it! :rolleyes: This is why we get Lunar Eclipses
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Shows how important it is to use the correct terms!

I had a sub 70 a couple of rounds ago, but that was a gross 78! (do the maths) :whistle:

Btw. It's a Solar Eclipse that is the more dramatic - when the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun. That's when that ratio comes into play! Lunar Eclipses are when the Earth's Shadow (about 4 times as large as the diameter of the moon) passes over the (Full) Moon
 
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