say there was a planet you could live on, anywhere in the galaxy that was completely hospitable to human life. where in the galaxy would you want to live and why? what do you imagine the view would be like??? im just curious as to where people might think a beautiful place in the milkyway might be!!! i dont want any scientific answers about why life is or is not possible in certain locations...lets just speculate that you would be able to live anywhere. tell me where it would be.
2007-10-03 10:47:55 · 10 answers · asked by Bones 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Do these stars count: http://vela.astro.ulg.ac.be/themes/dataproc/deconv/halo/images/image5.jpg ?
Because that would be awesome. You'd have a great view of the whole Milky Way filling up half the sky. I would pick a really red star or maybe a double star system where each star was a different color. That would be cool. You wouldn't have too many individual nearby stars, but at least you wouldn't be all alone.
If you consider that to be technically outside the Milky Way, I would pick someplace near the Galactic center. Yes, I'm ignoring the whole "you would die" issue. Stars are much, much more packed in near the center, so there would be tons of bright stars in the sky. Plus, you would have a good view of the supermassive black hole: http://files.myopera.com/hfgenius/blog/blackhole.gif . Same deal with colorful stars and binary stars. Maybe one of those stars that orbits around the black hole every fifteen years or so.
2007-10-03 11:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My choice would be a planet around a star located high above the galactic plane relatively far from a globular cluster. This would produce a nice dark sky, and wonderful views of the whole of the galaxy. We could settle the exact shape of our galaxy. Is it a barred spiral or not?
HTH
Charles
2007-10-03 19:54:07 · answer #2 · answered by Charles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to live 180 degrees opposite of our position in the Orion Arm. I remember reading that scientists believe that there is another large galaxy very close to the Milky Way galaxy. It is closer than the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds but our view of it is obscured by the dust clouds that permeate our galaxy. That's as I understand it. I haven't followed up on it to see if it has been confirmed.
2007-10-03 17:59:17 · answer #3 · answered by Awesome Bill 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess I'd live closer to the center of the galaxy. I'm thinking the night sky might be brighter there with more stars. I'd stick with a star system that only has one star though. I want some nighttime!
2007-10-03 17:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
either in a system with a brown dwarf as the "sun"
or in a system that is circling VERY close to a black hole. Close enough to do experiments on yet not close enough to get sucked up for a while.
either planet must have a life span of say 7 billion years though.
a planet with multiple moons would be cool
2007-10-03 18:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd choose to live somewhere near a starforming region with a good close view of an emission nebula.
2007-10-03 17:54:41 · answer #6 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If, IF, it could support life, I think I'd like to live in or near a globular cluster.
The night- time views would truly be tremendous!!!
2007-10-03 18:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by Bobby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah dude somwehere towrds the center of the galaxy,
where the sky is more fun to watch,
but dosent matter how nice the wiew you would just get bored with it:),
sooner or later
2007-10-03 18:48:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess I will continue living right where I am. It is interesting enough fo me.
2007-10-03 19:32:17 · answer #9 · answered by worldneverchanges 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i want to live on Saturn
2007-10-03 19:48:47 · answer #10 · answered by Autumn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋