I would drop everything in a heart beat if given the chance to go to the moon.
I'd do the same thing just to go into space. A quick phone call while walking out the door to let people know I'm busy for an indeterminate period of time and it's on to training. If Richard Garriott can do it so can I.
This is why we're alive today. Jupiter and Saturn's gravity wells are basically giant shields soaking up the damage from these things so we don't have to. It's always nice to see evidence of the system working, though.
A comet hit Jupiter on the southern part of the Planet.
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PASADENA, California —
A large comet or asteroid has slammed into Jupiter, creating an impact site the size of Earth, pictures by an Australian amateur astronomer show.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the discovery using its large infrared telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, said computer programer Anthony Wesley, 44, who discovered the impact zone while stargazing at home.
News of Wesley's find on a backyard 14.5-inch reflecting telescope has stunned the astronomy world, with scientists saying the impact will last only days more.
Wesley said it took him 30 minutes to realize a dark spot rotating in Jupiter's clouds on July 19 was actually the first impact seen by astronomers since a comet collided with the giant planet in July 1994.
"I thought (it) likely to be just a normal dark polar storm," he said on his website.
"However as it rotated further into view and the conditions improved I suddenly realized that it wasn't just dark, it was black in all channels, meaning it was truly a black spot," Wesley said from his home at Murrumbateman, north of Canberra.
Photographs show the impact zone, or "scar," near Jupiter's south polar region, with gases seen in infrared images.
"We are extremely lucky to be seeing Jupiter at exactly the right time, the right hour, the right side of Jupiter to witness the event. We couldn't have planned it better," NASA JPL scientist Glenn Orton told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
Orton confirmed the spot was an impact site and not a localized weather event in Jupiter's swirling surface, similar to the planet's famed red spot.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
This is why we're alive today. Jupiter and Saturn's gravity wells are basically giant shields soaking up the damage from these things so we don't have to. It's always nice to see evidence of the system working, though.
Not trying to cause a ruckus. I find space exploration interesting, but whats the point of trying to find if life exists on other planets?
We'll never be able to visit them. Bitches are light years away. I just think its a bit futile.
It's VERY important that we bring Jesus to these savage, undiscovered planets. Imagine them all, dying and going to hell until we can get to them and save them.
But seriously, the religious implications alone would make the discovery of life on other planets one of the most important events in human history. It would fuck everything up in totally glorious ways.
Also, don't forget that in nearly every syfy thingy the discovery that we're not alone in the universe helps to develop a closer bond between all mankind by giving us entirely new races of beings to fear and stereotype.
Like someone smarter than me once said, finding out that we're not alone or that we are completely alone, either discovery is pretty mindblowing.
A comet hit Jupiter on the southern part of the Planet.
I was watching the Science Channel yesterday and there was a program talking about that event where the comet hit Jupiter. And the narrator mentioned that was the first time in human history that we observed something crashing into a planet. There was also a scientist that is 100% sure that something is going to crash into earth someday and he says you don't believe him look at the moon. And that got me thinking that if the comet crash was in the first time in human history that humans observed cosmic objects crashing into something and the moon is covered in craters that humans didn't see it or record it? Then it also got me thinking about the asteroid belt. They program mentioned that it's just left over from when the planets were created. What if it's not? What if there was a planet that was between Mars and Jupiter that got destroyed and it's the left overs of that? What if that's when the moon got bombarded and when the meteor smashed into the earth and eradicated the dinosaurs.
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