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The Shape of Our Solar SystemPosted on May 11, 2007Our solar system isn’t the good old circle or oval you might have thought it is. According to research reported on this week by National Geographic News, it is bullet-shaped.
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By Lex Luther, May 16, 2007 at 8:07 am Link to this comment
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What is wrong with you people? Newton, Einstein, Darwin, Copernicus, Gallileo and rabble, were all wrong and wasted their lives in too much thinking. Six days, remember, and don’t forget it.
Can we get back to the good old days of a flat earth at the center of the universe please? We need to be dunking uppity WOMEN in the village pond to see if they are witches: If they float they’re guilty. If they drown they’re innocent. Now that, my friends, is real Science.
The only thing science is good for is making hi tech weapons, as the almighty intended.
Report thisGod may be and Englishman but Jesus loves Lockheed Martin
By Scott, May 13, 2007 at 2:26 pm Link to this comment
“We dont depend on Earth for our existence.”
Any species that believes the hereafter is more relevent than the here and now is doomed to go the way of the Dodo.
Report thisBy Logician, May 13, 2007 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
Actually, it isn’t shaped like a bullet, it’s more like a suppository…and all that might imply…no wonder it’s so dark out there…
Think of THAT the next night you’re looking up into space!
Cheers!
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, May 13, 2007 at 1:47 am Link to this comment
#69547 by GW=MCHammered on 5/12 at 8:53 am: “...Why is the speed of light a physical barrier? It appears part of our dimensional fencing. But is it really…?”
Light is photons in motion therefore motion is a dimension - after time, or with it as it is a time-phased sequence in space. That makes five dimensions and there are at least two more.
Report thisBy Hondo, May 12, 2007 at 10:45 pm Link to this comment
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We don’t depend on Earth for our existence. Our solar system, and the Earth that we live on, were created by God. We, the people living here on this Earth, were all created by God, and we were created in His image. Because Adam and Eve fell victim to sin, our Earth is a broken world, so God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to walk among us and to eventually die on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for our sins. God raised Jesus on the third day after His death and our salvation was complete. All we have to do to receive this free gift of salvation is to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Read the Book of John in the Bible and you will see what I’m talking about.
Report thisBy James Yell, May 12, 2007 at 4:21 pm Link to this comment
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If I understand the shape they are talking about is the solar wind, not the actual shape of the constituant parts of the solar system, sun, planets and debrie. I guess it is which you think is more important, but does this have any effect upon the solar system. Another nit picking episode like Pluto?
Report thisBy Scott, May 12, 2007 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
Space is cool and I dig it. Thanks for the tidbit.
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, May 12, 2007 at 9:53 am Link to this comment
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Sad we spend most our lives beefing about our place in the cattle pen. Bellowing as we strut-n-hump-n-bump across the feedlot. Kowtowing when another charges ahead and hogs more than their share.
Now how about more digging-4-truth articles with answers to questions like:
Why does the ratio of a circle to its diameter (pi) seem to abate endlessly? Does it somehow define the asymptotic barrier between two dimensions, the one-dimensional line (diameter) and the two-dimensional circle (circumference)?
Do we live in three-dimensions or pi-dimensions? Do Space and Time appear intertwined because we don’t exist in a natural-number universe?
Why does gravity and acceleration seem twin on a common stage? We are surrounded by, indeed permeated with, boundless potential energy for the taking.
Why is the speed of light a physical barrier? It appears part of our dimensional fencing. But is it really?
The better we understand the “shape-n-nature” of our pen, the sooner our minds will be free of more bantam corrals like branding prejudice, wrangling religion, and cowpie politics.
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, May 12, 2007 at 6:28 am Link to this comment
We all live within a life-sustaining “cloak” of protection which is the Sun’s atmosphere or the solar wind. All of Space around us is filled with this energy while we scratch and fight over our dirty fossil fuels.
Additionally, this Earth is our space refuge and it too generates a protective “cloak” or environment called the magnetosphere in which it is only then possible for biological life to survive.
On this Mothers’ Day, we should all remember the Earth as our supreme Mother who we all continuously depend upon for our existence.
Report thisBy QuyTran, May 11, 2007 at 6:51 pm Link to this comment
Bullet-shaped or any-shaped, who cares ?
Report thisBy Hammo, May 11, 2007 at 4:33 pm Link to this comment
There is much we average people don’t know about our solar system and this small planet called Earth within it.
Even scientists who study these things are developing new understanding all the time.
And, some related facts and theories are also interesting to consider:
“Earths crust and poles wander, drift and shift: Dangerous days ahead?” (AmericanChronicle.com)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13364
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