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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1084850 United States 09/01/2010 07:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sadly, that corresponds to the Yellowstone eruption cycle, and the last time we hit the galactic plane at the south pole. Sheesh, that's bad news, for we are supposed to be hitting the galactic plane again, at our south pole, a year or two from now. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1085966 United States 09/01/2010 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sadly, that corresponds to the Yellowstone eruption cycle, and the last time we hit the galactic plane at the south pole. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1084850Sheesh, that's bad news, for we are supposed to be hitting the galactic plane again, at our south pole, a year or two from now. |
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Cimbrian User ID: 1085868 Turkey 09/01/2010 09:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "(What has kept the Earth "safe" at least the past 65 million years, other than blind luck is the massive gravitational field of Jupiter, our cosmic guardian, with its stable circular orbit far from the sun, which assures a low number of impacts resulting in mass extinctions by sweeping up and scatters away most of the dangerous Earth-orbit-crossing comets and asteroids)" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 619959Interesting All hail Big Brother Jupiter. I am a GLP Hater! |
Levi Philos User ID: 590644 United States 09/01/2010 10:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sadly, that corresponds to the Yellowstone eruption cycle, and the last time we hit the galactic plane at the south pole. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1084850Sheesh, that's bad news, for we are supposed to be hitting the galactic plane again, at our south pole, a year or two from now. That "galactic plane" stuff is just so much BS. How can anyone define a galactic plane? The milky way galaxy as portrayed from on edge is roughly egg shaped and is 30-40 light years in thickness at the center and thins to 3-4 light years at the edge. Nobody knows the total number of stars or the total mass. To define a plane requires firm knowledge of these facts. We (the sol system of star and planets) also out on the edge in one of the spiral arms and rotating about the center of the galactic mass. If we are crossing the galactic plane, then it is equally true we have been crossing the galactic plane for a geologic age already and will be crossing for many thousands of years into the future. I am not an astronomer; just an old carpenter with a brain that still works. Levi Philos |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 989190 United States 09/01/2010 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "(What has kept the Earth "safe" at least the past 65 million years, other than blind luck is the massive gravitational field of Jupiter, our cosmic guardian, with its stable circular orbit far from the sun, which assures a low number of impacts resulting in mass extinctions by sweeping up and scatters away most of the dangerous Earth-orbit-crossing comets and asteroids)" Quoting: CimbrianInteresting All hail Big Brother Jupiter. father chronos time |
Levi Philos User ID: 590644 United States 09/01/2010 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | To continue my previous reply, I would bet that the motion about the galactic plane of any star system is a slow oscillation above and below the plane. Study the motion of any body in the rings of Saturn for a metaphorical comparison. At any segment of time (hundreds of thousands of years) the large vector could be at a small angle away from or toward the plane. The small vector would be an extremely slow measure of velocity toward or away from the plane. Difficult to impossible for astronomers to measure. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1084850 United States 09/01/2010 05:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sadly, that corresponds to the Yellowstone eruption cycle, and the last time we hit the galactic plane at the south pole. Quoting: Levi Philos 590644Sheesh, that's bad news, for we are supposed to be hitting the galactic plane again, at our south pole, a year or two from now. That "galactic plane" stuff is just so much BS. How can anyone define a galactic plane? The milky way galaxy as portrayed from on edge is roughly egg shaped and is 30-40 light years in thickness at the center and thins to 3-4 light years at the edge. Nobody knows the total number of stars or the total mass. To define a plane requires firm knowledge of these facts. We (the sol system of star and planets) also out on the edge in one of the spiral arms and rotating about the center of the galactic mass. If we are crossing the galactic plane, then it is equally true we have been crossing the galactic plane for a geologic age already and will be crossing for many thousands of years into the future. I am not an astronomer; just an old carpenter with a brain that still works. Levi Philos The same Aztec that hint at the galactic plane, calling it the dark rift or the feathered serpent, also have drawings of great power symbols that have four legs, the swastika that the Nazi used to represent their great power. It is believed by many that that symbol represents the Milky Way galaxy. If so, how did they know that our galaxy had only four arms? Last decade our science books showed we had eight. They knew way too much for it all to be coincidence. Why not use your brain and realize that ancient civilizations once had greater scientific knowledge than our present day civilization. Thus, if they say there is a dark rift, we should not so foolishly dismiss it. |