Astronomy & Space - August 2007

wouldn't all of the new gadgets just disappear?

wouldn't you?

2007-08-13 15:24:26 · 8 answers · asked by Kakashilove<3 3

2007-08-13 15:14:07 · 2 answers · asked by dizzi 2

Was the world created by God in seven days, as the Bible says? or was it created out of gas whirling in space for billions of years?

2007-08-13 15:12:16 · 28 answers · asked by KuRoSaKi IcHiGo 1

2007-08-13 15:01:57 · 3 answers · asked by fojock 1

how would you expect the spectra of distant stars to appear if the universe were contracting?

2007-08-13 14:56:05 · 5 answers · asked by princess 2

2007-08-13 14:45:20 · 9 answers · asked by cemuni2 1

It is a celestron powerseeker 50 with the follwoing spicefactions:
OPTICAL DESIGN Refractor
APERTURE 50 mm (1.97 in)
FOCAL LENGTH 600 mm (23.62 in)
FOCAL RATIO 12
EYEPIECE 1 20 mm (0.79 in)
MAGNIFICATION 1 30 x
EYEPIECE 2 12 mm (0.47 in)
MAGNIFICATION 2 50 x
EYEPIECE 3 4 mm (0.16 in)
MAGNIFICATION 3 150 x
BARLOW LENS 3 x
FINDERSCOPE 5x24
STAR DIAGONAL 0.92 in
MOUNT Altazimuth
TRIPOD Aluminum
CD ROM The Sky Level 1
WEIGHT 6 lb (2.72 kg)
LIMITING STELLAR MAGNITUDE 11
RESOLUTION 2.77 arc seconds
RESOLVING POWER 2.32 arc seconds
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION 167 line/mm
LIGHT GATHERING POWER 51 x
ANGULAR FIELD OF VIEW 1.4 °
LINEAR FIELD OF VIEW (@1000 YDS) 72 ft (21.95 m)
OPTICAL COATINGS Fully-Coated
OPTICAL TUBE LENGTH 24 in (609.6 mm)
TELESCOPE WEIGHT 6 lb (2.72 kg)

2007-08-13 14:41:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Mayan calender and the Book of changes (I Ching) say it will be a very bad day for humanity.
Not to mention the black hole in the middle of our universe will be directly between the earth and the sun. Are we all doomed?

2007-08-13 14:23:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 14:12:40 · 9 answers · asked by Dreaming83 1

Last weekend i was able to watch the ISS cross the sky where i live, it look like a small star, less brighter than Venus. I'm wondering if i could see details of the ISS with a good telescope ?

2007-08-13 13:53:13 · 7 answers · asked by Kaynos 5

2007-08-13 13:50:04 · 19 answers · asked by freekyflyer 1

Okay, so earth rotates and revolves. The atmosphere moves with the revolution, but does it rotate with the earth? Like, if you had a huge pole from the ground to the end of the atmosphere, would the end of the pole be touching the same part of the atmosphere 6 hours later? Or would it have changed?

2007-08-13 13:44:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because NASA keeps trying to Band-aid 30 year old Tech.
Scap this system or more will die. Those tiles are a joke. If we lose another Shuttle we will be a second rate super power. Maybe we can outsource NASA to people with fresh engineering skills.

2007-08-13 13:43:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 13:39:52 · 5 answers · asked by *05* 1

We build five shuttles for space and the Enterprise which never was used in space.Two have failed with loss of crew.If we are not going to retire the fleet we should build an escape pod. All ships have life boats. I can not see this old fleet been used with its problems.

2007-08-13 13:21:36 · 9 answers · asked by radio309 5

It's so exasperating...if people live in a city area, for example near Canary Wharf will meteor showers ever be visible to the naked eye?

2007-08-13 13:10:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 13:00:42 · 6 answers · asked by zelk z 2

in this video i found it shows this star supposedly "dissappearing" but i thought it totally looked photoshop

what d'you think?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3czDyk-mOXA

2007-08-13 12:41:17 · 9 answers · asked by Katie 4

I've been very recently fascinated with our Universe and had an interesting thought. Our galaxies are comprised billions of stars, planets, etc; The Universe (assuming, sort of, that the universe is an unfathomably large closed system) is comprised of billions of galaxies, dark matter, etc. Do you think that there might be billions of different, "collections of Galaxies", maybe that occupy different laws and natural elements.

2007-08-13 12:38:33 · 3 answers · asked by ThisGuy 2

To expand your answer. Answer the follow questions in order:

If you agree with the question,
1. What evidence out there that you agree with?
2. What is/are the evidence that you find very interesting and/or most convincing? Try to narrow your choice down to 2 or 3.
3. What's your thoughts on why NASA is not confessing? Will they ever admit that they're wrong? What would you do to make them leak the truth (that they faked the whole thing up)?
4. Do you think that this is the greatest hoax of all time? If not, then what is?

If you diagree, then answer these questions:
5. Why? What ARE the evidence that convince you? Specify.
6. Why do you think that there is the growing uncertainy about the moon landings?
7. What is it that makes you trust NASA so much and you are sure (and crystal clear) that man did land on the moon?

2007-08-13 12:35:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/program.html
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/blackhole_meal.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/massivebholes.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/491683.stm
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/03
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/v4641_microquasar_000114.html
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=13668

2007-08-13 12:32:57 · 2 answers · asked by Mercury 2010 7

HAS ANYONE RECIEVED AN E-MAIL LIKE THIS?
..."as large as the full moon"
Why would anyone want to start a rumor like this?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<< *27th Aug the Whole World is waiting
for.............*
>
> Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night
sky starting August.
>
> It will look as large as the full moon to the
naked eye. This will
> cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within
34.65M miles of earth. Be
> sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It
will look like the earth
> has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this
close is in 2287.
>
> Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE
TODAY will ever see it
> again

2007-08-13 12:10:35 · 6 answers · asked by ericbryce2 7

Does time dilation have an effect on them traveling up in space?

2007-08-13 12:08:22 · 11 answers · asked by eoc1000 2

They get all this crap info on TV and the internet and spread it around without sitting down and thinking. For example:

Moon landing hoax: How could the govt fool 400,000 people that worked on Apollo for 11 years that 6 moon landing simulations over 3 years were real?

Govt brings down the World Trade Center: If it wasn’t hijacked United and American airliners that did it, don’t these people wonder why when watching the videos of 9/11, all the hundreds of personnel working for those airlines weren’t screaming “we didn’t lose any airliners that day”.

Mars appearing as big as the Moon: Doesn’t this one get you? If people thought for a just a minute, such a scenario would be huge for Earth’s tides, and it would be all over the daily newspapers.

2007-08-13 12:02:54 · 7 answers · asked by nick s 6

2007-08-13 11:59:27 · 5 answers · asked by eoc1000 2

just thinking what carl sagan said and that question in my mind popped up

2007-08-13 11:35:57 · 10 answers · asked by V 4

I am scarred about what I have heard. Will the world end!?
Will the east coast be floded?! WIll the current of the atlanic ocean shift and the polar icecaps melt? Why has nasa says that they will give over $100 million and have orbited in space by 2012?! The mayan calander just ends?

2007-08-13 11:31:29 · 19 answers · asked by MF 2

2007-08-13 11:29:30 · 9 answers · asked by peter and sheena 2

2007-08-13 11:12:29 · 5 answers · asked by edsu94 1

2007-08-13 11:05:42 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous