Isn't getting lower grades in the US considered cool?
At least that's the image the rest of the world have, people who get higher grades are unpopular nerds, that always get trapped in the locker by the athletes and never have a date.
Earth's global magnetic field comes from an active dynamo -- that is, circulating currents at the planet's liquid metallic core. A similar dynamo once churned inside Mars, but for reasons unknown it stopped working four billion years ago.
Given that the Solar System has an estimated age of 4.6 billion years, Mars dynamo stopped very early, thus the reasons you listed aren't enough to explain it.
The top games on my list are the Lucasarts adventures with Monkey Island on top. Id Software games made me spend a lot of time playing too, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, but playing Quake online was just sick. Unfortunately one day I had to start working and since then I hasn't played any games to the point of dreaming about it.
A boson has as much to do with gods as any other particle. The real problem here is money: they need money to keep going with the experiments, and maybe finding it.
And what's a better way to attract attention than putting the word "God" into it?
Colonizing the galaxy to colonizing the entire universe is a HUGE step.
Let's say we achieve FTL speeds, how much? Two times the speed of light seems a lot, still we would need approximately 12,500 years to arrive in the closest galaxy (Canis Major). It'd take 1.25 million years to arrive in the Andromeda galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. And we are only talking about the Local Group! I can't imagine anything other than god-like creatures to colonize the entire universe, beings formed entirely of energy that can travel as fast as they want, like this: they think of going there and in the next moment they're there. But who's to say those beings are not around already?
Wrong, our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter.
It would take 100 million years for a civilization with 0.1c capability to cross the galaxy. Assuming those beings live approximately 100 years each, it would take 1 million generations living inside a spaceship to cross the galaxy. That's just too much.
It's hard to picture a civilization driving troughout the galaxy without FTL travel speeds.
I've never understood why Christians are so afraid of finding life on other planets or why atheists are so adamant that it will prove the Christians wrong. The Bible doesn't say anywhere that there is only life on Earth. If you take the creation story in Genesis metaphorically (lots of Christians do), then life evolving on other planets doesn't clash with theology at all; unless of course I'm totally missing something, in which case please point it out because I'm curious. From what I see, religion and science aren't necessarily incompatible.
That's the problem of (most) religious people, interpreting the scriptures literally. The bible is a parable, it has an intrinsic moral meaning, it teaches us about loving, sharing and the wrath of god if we don't follow his commandments.
Ok, it's not the best parable there is, but the real problem about the bible, or any scripture at all, is that all were written by men.
It would be great if we could make a giant telescope and send it travelling faster than light to intergalactic space and then see how the milky way formed, or even the solar system.
Of course that's not possible and probably never will be, but we can look to the past through our telescopes and watch how other galaxies similar to our formed.
That's the beauty of astronomy, the further our tecnology advances, the further we look into the past.
If you take a look on all NASA successful missions, you'll see they still have the right to "blew up" many times before being dismissed as a failure.
By the way, I'm not american, neither blind.
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You know we've got spectrometers nowadays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake
Reminds me of Mars.
He should have stopped here.
Not if you use windows.
Isn't that almost what google do?
I call them crazy.
Isn't getting lower grades in the US considered cool?
At least that's the image the rest of the world have, people who get higher grades are unpopular nerds, that always get trapped in the locker by the athletes and never have a date.
Oh no, let's declare war on the internets, I head there's some oil there too
Where am I going to get pirate bay links now?
How would the authorities like to be deep inspected?
At least I'm going to die drunk.
Those are all speculations, the truth is that we don't really know why Mars dynamo stopped working.
According to this article:
Earth's global magnetic field comes from an active dynamo -- that is, circulating currents at the planet's liquid metallic core. A similar dynamo once churned inside Mars, but for reasons unknown it stopped working four billion years ago.
Given that the Solar System has an estimated age of 4.6 billion years, Mars dynamo stopped very early, thus the reasons you listed aren't enough to explain it.
Yes, the question is why Mars dynamo stopped and Earth's still active, if both planets were formed in the same epoch?
This hapenned supposedly when Mars had an active nucleus that generated a magnetic field, protecting the atmosphere from solar winds.
Nowadays liquid water cannot exist on Mars surface, and the bigger mistery is why Mars lost it's magnetic field.
The top games on my list are the Lucasarts adventures with Monkey Island on top. Id Software games made me spend a lot of time playing too, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, but playing Quake online was just sick. Unfortunately one day I had to start working and since then I hasn't played any games to the point of dreaming about it.
A boson has as much to do with gods as any other particle. The real problem here is money: they need money to keep going with the experiments, and maybe finding it. And what's a better way to attract attention than putting the word "God" into it?
Colonizing the galaxy to colonizing the entire universe is a HUGE step. Let's say we achieve FTL speeds, how much? Two times the speed of light seems a lot, still we would need approximately 12,500 years to arrive in the closest galaxy (Canis Major). It'd take 1.25 million years to arrive in the Andromeda galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. And we are only talking about the Local Group! I can't imagine anything other than god-like creatures to colonize the entire universe, beings formed entirely of energy that can travel as fast as they want, like this: they think of going there and in the next moment they're there. But who's to say those beings are not around already?
Wrong, our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter. It would take 100 million years for a civilization with 0.1c capability to cross the galaxy. Assuming those beings live approximately 100 years each, it would take 1 million generations living inside a spaceship to cross the galaxy. That's just too much.
It's hard to picture a civilization driving troughout the galaxy without FTL travel speeds.
I've never understood why Christians are so afraid of finding life on other planets or why atheists are so adamant that it will prove the Christians wrong. The Bible doesn't say anywhere that there is only life on Earth. If you take the creation story in Genesis metaphorically (lots of Christians do), then life evolving on other planets doesn't clash with theology at all; unless of course I'm totally missing something, in which case please point it out because I'm curious. From what I see, religion and science aren't necessarily incompatible.
That's the problem of (most) religious people, interpreting the scriptures literally. The bible is a parable, it has an intrinsic moral meaning, it teaches us about loving, sharing and the wrath of god if we don't follow his commandments.
Ok, it's not the best parable there is, but the real problem about the bible, or any scripture at all, is that all were written by men.
It would be great if we could make a giant telescope and send it travelling faster than light to intergalactic space and then see how the milky way formed, or even the solar system.
Of course that's not possible and probably never will be, but we can look to the past through our telescopes and watch how other galaxies similar to our formed.
That's the beauty of astronomy, the further our tecnology advances, the further we look into the past.
Who said he doesn't show himself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith
Who said he doesn't interfere?
"The whole concept here is that if everyone shares just a little bit (...) then everyone can benefit"
That would solve a lot of the world problems, not just traffic.
Mini-galaxies... maybe we live inside a planet's ocean of dark matter populated by galaxies.
If you take a look on all NASA successful missions, you'll see they still have the right to "blew up" many times before being dismissed as a failure.
By the way, I'm not american, neither blind.