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By 'Masses' I meant exactly what it means

'Public celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches'. or 'The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion'.

You seem to have mistaken my meaning... I know that Christmas is a pagan holiday and that it is part of the winter festivals. But you seem to have forgotten that this was taken by the 'masses' and made there own.

I say I think 'Christmas' should be kept even if religion is not followed. I thought you would all follow that train of thought. But may be not...

What masses?

 

 

 

So, how do you celebrate Christmas? You say prays and go to midnight mass?

 

I personally would be very happy to disassociate a winter festival with Christianity.

Your acting as anyone who is defending a belief would. Be it Christianity or not.

Shall we bow down to the masses or shall we except that 'Christmas' is the way forward. I for one will NEVER stop celebrating Christmas.

Or you can argue it is a study in futility to try and judge somebody's 'adult' height. There are no charts, doctors, specialists or graphs that will determine your height when you stop growing.

This is something we cannot and probably will never be able to answer. What will be, will be.

It's like you planting a seed in the ground and when it germinates and breaks the surface soil, you tell me to the inch what height the plant/tree will peak at. It cannot be done as there are too many unknown variables.

Ahh homework. I'm not sure what the rules are here, but usually it is you need to do it yourself. Where would our most trusted scientists and theologians be if we all asked on the internet?

The idea that God exists is not only profound but necessary. I have spent the last 31 yrs proving that 1 + 1 = 2 I now need to explain that a person died on the cross to save me.. or he sat under a tree and starved himself for me to see the light. Of course he did and I should be ashamed to think otherwise. I will keep the fight going as long is necessary.

Of course there is a god and he wants me to kill the non believers why would he not.. he is after all merciful.

Lets all bow down to the god that is the biggest hypocrite going.

You make me laugh. Your attitude disgusts me.

Sorry to bring this up but it bothers me.

Well in my opinion science is lacking 'faith' and religion is lacking 'fact'. I know which get's my vote.

It will capture images in the infra-red.

Neutron stars are one of the most highly dense (viewable) objects in the universe. A tea spoon of Neutron star would way approx 1 billion tonnes. These stars are remnants of a massive star (4-8 times the size of our sun) which has (died). The gravitational field of said star can be up to the magnitude of 2 x 10 to the power of 11. With a possible magnetic field a million times greater than earth.

These are generally super nova remnants (stars that have blown off there outer layer) when the star has burnt up all it's nuclear fuel.

Hope this helps... if you need more help please ask

I would like to hear other peoples hypothesis on pre big bang space, and the future of our universe, also if the universe is infinite or finite. Can't hurt to hear new theories!

Theories range from there was nothing before the 'big bang' and that our universe was born from another 'multi-verse'. Also you could imagine that the universe is caught in a cycle where it becomes the 'big crunch' as in the universe expands as it is now, then it turns into the 'big crunch' and compacts back onto itself.

Then the whole process starts again ie, another big bang.

This is an impossible question but quiet interesting to consider.

I for one would be bored very quickly if the universe did not offer spectacular options

I spoke with a NASA astronaut about 5 years ago and he had a pretty similar idea. He didn’t go into the detail like you have done. His idea was to have an elevator from earth to space only, for the transport of raw materials from other planets.

This is hardly a new concept, in fact this has been puzzled over for quite some time.

I've just flitted through this topic so forgive me if it is all ready covered. But you would also have to take into account 'moon wobble' the moon is not in a completely stationary orbit, apart from the fact it is slowly moving away. The moon also experiences a gravitational wobble as when the moon passes closer to the earth, the gravitational pull of the earth increases.

This may not seem significant when seen in video or if you plot the moons position over a month, but if you consider the length of the tether (distance from the moon to the earth) the wobble at the earth end would be massive.

You also seem to have shown the moon orbiting in a near perfect orbit, which is incorrect as the moon has (as most objects do) an elliptical orbit. So unless you could find a way to real in and out the tether it would eventually crash into the earth.

As I said I only skimmed the initial thread so these may already be covered.

While I believe our universe was the

instantaneous transition of a singularity into matter, could "it" have been billions of miles in diameter at the time?

Just to add that when thinking in terms of the size of the universe 'billions of miles in diameter' is fairly insignificant.

One theory states that the universe will either end in a big 'crunch' or the universe will just be a vacuum containing nothing but black holes as all the matter is 'devoured' by black holes. You should not concentrate to much on the galaxies central 'massive black hole' as the galaxy will continue to churn out new black holes throughout.

Therefore you could theorise that the black holes would eventually draw themselves in to the centre and add to the 'super massive black' hole present.

You could argue that the 'big crunch' and the 'vacuum littered with black holes' are one and the same. As in my humble opinion if all the black holes were to eventually drag in there neighbours and create one 'incredible black hole'. Then this would be the 'crunch' I stated earlier.. whether this would then trigger a new 'big bang' is obviously debatable.

My knowledge is limited but my support is sincere.

Our early craft were not sterilized, but very unlikely to have carried bacteria anywhere habitable. Now we sterilize our spacecraft.

Is that not a contradiction in terms?

It's not about how we got here... sorry the site seems to keep refreshing the site which makes me slightly AHH.. when I'm half way through a topic.

Ok this a tough one. As soon as Humans ventured into space we have been leaving things behind be it products or simple 'human waste'. My questions are these.

Are these 'waste' products' not inviting evolution on other worlds.. hence we see them as extra-terrestrial but did some 'extra human activity' make it to another planet as bacteria?

Are we adding to a universe sparse of life?

Are we part of the same issue?

Would love to hear some opinions.

Just to add, people are asking about what was left on the moon. I can tell you that they left a mirror on there... not like the one at home of course. They fire a lazer at it everyonce in a while to gauge the distance between the moon and our planet. This is how we know the moon is slowly moving away from us, and will eventually break orbit and we will lose the moon. This will be hugely detrimental to our planet of course but were safe for quite some time yet.

crownedconquern is banned, so the insults don't need to continue.

Glad to hear it

does any one know anything about nibiru? does this planet even exist?

Please start your own topic as not to confuse the subject matter.

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Thats because youre a retard!

That's a truly awful word and I hope you are reported for it.. on my site you would have a proper dressing down for that.

Astronomy is far out!!!

 

Actually, Pluto is not the edge of our solar system. Beyond it is the Kepler belt, then the heliotrope and then the Oort sphere.

That is quite amusing. As it's not the 'kelper' belt hehe, but the Kuiper belt and pluto is actually part of that belt. And is not even the largest body within that belt.. which is why the argument 'now made a strange truth' is Pluto a planet... even though it's still now wildely respected as such.. I disagree.

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Intestines,

Mason is refering to standard form, in which 93,000,000 may be written as 9.3x10⁷, which is in pretty common use.

Love the way you have added a wiki extract.. *sigh*

Yeah no matter how many times you write out 9.3x10⁷ it's still the sum I wrote out.. these things are for scientists not people looking for help on a site to help people who are not scientists.

If you had read, you would see that most here are discussing keeping carbonated drinks stored in bottles.

 

Please read before you choose to insult.

Is that a joke?? sorry I don't get it.

As you will see my post is completely within the realm of this topic. Are we discussing, CO2 outside a water based beverage or are we looking at something I missed?

Or, better yet, improved.

Agreed but by who? The people that already post wiki 'facts'.

The moon rotates once on it's own axis every orbit of the earth, this results in the moon always showing one face to the earth. If the moon did not rotate you could see it's entire surface each time it orbited the Earth.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

Just the fact you used Wiki is detrimental to your course.

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Wiki should be laughed at and shunned on every corner.