15 Things You Didn't Know About Outer Space

Kekerusey · September 06, 2010, 03:40:22 PM

Click the picture for more of the 15

Keke

Seykxetskxe te Vawm 'Ewan'ite (Kalin Kato) · September 07, 2010, 09:45:12 PM

Awesome!

I liked this a lot!

and number three makes me think....the earth is slowing down, but we move faster. As in, we continue reproducing and the earth is way more populated than it was years ago...then earth will be slower and fuller...

Swoka Ikran · September 08, 2010, 04:38:20 PM

I'm taking astronomy right now, so this was really interesting. Now I'm tempted to show this to my professor...

Seykxetskxe te Vawm 'Ewan'ite (Kalin Kato) · September 08, 2010, 04:40:56 PM

I took Astronomy my senior year in HS....never learned anything

but now I learn on my own

Astronomy is amazingly interesting, like this article

Taronyu · September 08, 2010, 04:44:36 PM

They lied. I knew 12 of those already.

Elektrolurch · September 08, 2010, 04:44:57 PM

I guess I already did know everything except for one or two facts...

Niwantaw · September 08, 2010, 04:45:43 PM

I knew a lot of them. But not all.

By the way did you know that the universe is actually beige?

'Oma Tirea · September 08, 2010, 05:40:55 PM

Quote from: Tawtewng on September 08, 2010, 04:45:43 PM
I knew a lot of them. But not all.

By the way did you know that the universe is actually beige?

Same... except for that last one you mentioned

kewnya txamew'itan · September 09, 2010, 10:52:15 AM

Quote from: Taronyu on September 08, 2010, 04:44:36 PM
They lied. I knew 12 of those already.

11. *isn't at all competitive*

Payä Tìrol · September 09, 2010, 12:56:48 PM

13, apparently.

Scorpian Gunship · September 11, 2010, 09:42:59 PM

15
haha beat that

Tsäroltxe te Eyrutì Tantse'itan · September 11, 2010, 09:56:28 PM

I knew all...but that was very cool none the less.

Ean Hufwetulyu · September 12, 2010, 08:35:40 AM

one parsec is equal to 3.25 lightyears

kewnya txamew'itan · September 12, 2010, 11:08:56 AM

3.26 actually

Niwantaw · September 12, 2010, 11:36:43 AM

3.261563777 to be precise

Payä Tìrol · September 12, 2010, 01:01:04 PM

Apparently, if you take the volume of a cubic light-year in tablespoons, and then line said spoons end to end, you'd have enough to stretch across the visible universe a ~trillion times for every dollar in Bill Gate's networth.

Don't ask how I stumbled on that

Ean Hufwetulyu · September 12, 2010, 06:29:04 PM

so Pandora is bout 1.002 parsecs

Eyamsiyu · September 12, 2010, 06:35:36 PM

Another thing you didn't know about outer space: all the galaxies are actually spreading out farther from each other from the supposed spot where the Big Bang happened.

Eyamsiyu · September 14, 2010, 10:27:53 AM

Here's another... maybe...

If we had a craft like the one that takes Jake to Pandora, and it really traveled that fast, it would actually explode upon impact with a single speck of dust.

kewnya txamew'itan · September 14, 2010, 11:36:12 AM

Ma eyamsiyu, IIRC we don't know the method of propulsion the venture star uses, if it used a Bussard Ramjet then its collection fields could protect it. Or you can go down the star trek route and install a deflector dish to protect it.

The only other solution is that of pushing around huge lumps of ablative armour or ice which is probably the easiest but least efficient solution.

Other interesting fact, even excluding the effect of having been in cryo during the journey to Pandora (and the fact that all the toxins in earth's atmosphere might accelerate aging), when any RDA personnel did return to Earth they would have aged less than the people left on earth.