Astronomy & Space - November 2007

explain your answer

2007-11-07 13:10:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are other suns, right?

2007-11-07 13:10:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-07 12:48:32 · 8 answers · asked by Rangefinder 4

On November 6, 2007 a child in India had an operation to have two extra legs and two extra arms removed. She was born that way because she was in the womb with a twin. The two of them grew together. The local population considered her the manifestation of a goddess. Her parents named her after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth. Science understood exactly what caused the phenomenon and the medical profession fixed it. 75% of the population on this planet believe in some sort of supernatural or spiritual deity.

Why do so many intelligent people on this planet fail to realize the parallels of human behavior that are witnessed so often is proof of the human gullibility of believing in supernatural things like, God and other superstitious phenomenon, such as the little girl that I described. Instead, human beings throw out common sense for the sake of ignorance and then preach superstition as being fact.

How dangerous is this to science and to our existence?

2007-11-07 12:32:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-07 12:27:29 · 2 answers · asked by boricuabadgurl_15 1

2007-11-07 12:04:53 · 4 answers · asked by Bryan K 1

2007-11-07 11:45:14 · 9 answers · asked by Norrie B 2

Say they are looking for E.T. life out there in the Universe which I am 100% sure they are doing right now. Tell me that they can NEVER EVER say that E.T. life does not exist?

Because they HAVE to look till they have found life or till they have run out of resources for finding it. But they can never say that E.T. life does not exist. What's the difference between E.T. life and God? They can't prove either one yet they say (I'm sorry to the scientists who believe in God) that God does NOT exist because no one can scientifically prove it and at the same time they are not eliminating the possibility that E.T. life exists. ...just wondering.

Or am I wrong in stating that scientists have disregarded God?

And I'm sorry for posting this in your forum but I want answers from scientists and not from religious people.

2007-11-07 11:39:56 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-11-07 10:58:31 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

"I believe in God."

Science guy: "Nope no God, there's no proof so there is no God. I have a Ph.D."

"Have you ever...?"

Science guy: "What? This is astronomy & science section, go to Entertainment! Don't bother us, we are during important research in Y!A."

2007-11-07 10:51:26 · 17 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-11-07 10:44:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally, I am almost adament that their is life out their and I believe it is only a matter of time before we find it. I read a report today about the discovery of a new solar system not unlike our own which could potentially support life. I think it is only a matter of advancement of technology and most likely I believe there will be a discovery of some kind of life before the century is up.

I would just like your views on the topic

p.s. I would like to add that when life is found the religious implications will be prevalent.

2007-11-07 10:37:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

if a object weight 400N and travels to another planet with twice mass twice radius, then the weight of that object on this planet is?

2007-11-07 10:15:31 · 2 answers · asked by ken 2

I'm just curios

2007-11-07 09:22:14 · 13 answers · asked by Oppa 2

How do their magnetic fields differ from the magnetic fields of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn?

2007-11-07 09:01:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if an astronaut was on a space walk and somehow became disattached and ended up on the moon, somehow surviving the impact(lets say with his equipment/spacesuit absorbing the impact).... do you think it would possible to make a huge "HELP" on the moon big enough to see so that astronomers on earth could see it and NASA could send other astronauts to the rescue?

I'm forseeing a Time/Money problem with your answers. But, what if we happened to have a module ready along with a crew?

2007-11-07 08:38:50 · 11 answers · asked by Jansen J 4

I understand the earths core is a nuclear furnace, thus keeping magma molten for eons, and occasionally breaking the surface in vents and volcanoes. The moon exhibits impact craters and some evidence of a volcanic past, but is the moon's core still molten and nuclear?

2007-11-07 07:59:54 · 13 answers · asked by Pygmaleyun 1

2007-11-07 07:43:09 · 22 answers · asked by James R 1

2007-11-07 07:42:16 · 5 answers · asked by templar 2

Whats the best time to go out and look?

2007-11-07 07:30:29 · 6 answers · asked by curious_inquisitor 1

After the astronauts land, what do they do to get re-accustomed to gravity, and what medical check-ups do they go through? It must be easier for the astronauts who are only up in space for a couple weeks, than for someone who was at the space station, and up in space for 5 months.

With this landing (STS 120 -- 11/07/07), two astronauts did not walk around the shuttle. One of them was only up for 2 weeks, and the other was up in space for 5 months. Do they have to do something special for the people who were in anti-gravity for 5 months?

2007-11-07 07:10:05 · 3 answers · asked by SF Giants Fan Forever 3

2007-11-07 07:04:14 · 3 answers · asked by Jared 1

2007-11-07 06:53:12 · 7 answers · asked by Alexander 6

I found this surfing the web... it is the most stupid thing... ever...

is it for real? I mean these people really think Earth is a flat disc surrounded by a 150 ft tall wall of ice... Where are they from? The Middle Ages?

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

2007-11-07 06:28:17 · 8 answers · asked by ponsho_g 1

2007-11-07 06:08:28 · 3 answers · asked by not the smartest apple 1

____ occur(s) because photons we receive from the edge of the solar disk are emitted further from the base of the photosphere than the photons we receive from the center of the solar disk.



a. The Zeeman Effect
b. Sunspots
c. Solar flares
d. Solar prominences
e. Limb darkening

2007-11-07 04:28:06 · 1 answers · asked by blaze w 1

2007-11-07 03:59:12 · 9 answers · asked by nightsky 1

Because we could be and we could not be and both ideas are over whelming

2007-11-07 03:57:20 · 7 answers · asked by Dani 2

The two orbit one another elliptically (e=0.52), approaching as close as 11.2 astronomical units (1.669 billion kilometers or 1.04 billion miles: roughly the distance from the Sun to Saturn) and receding to 35.6 AU (5.9 billion km: approximately the distance from the Sun to Pluto), with a period of just under 80 years. (Wikipedia.com)

2007-11-07 01:32:03 · 3 answers · asked by Jansen J 4

It would probably be the greenest source of energy imaginable, and with no detrimental effect to the Sun.

It strikes me as being a massive shame that the technology does not really exist that guarantees safe passage from terrestrial Earth into the gravitational urge of the Sun.

Is there any future technology that could do this? 'Space-lifts' perhaps?

2007-11-07 01:12:57 · 13 answers · asked by Golgi Apparatus 6